With the influence of media, it is always hard for one to know what kind of product to choose and the forms to avoid. This is because the media is always telling people the product they are advertising are the best. When almost all the skin care products or brands have the same information; being the best in the market, smart people will always ask why.
By simply looking at a particular product’s ingredient, you can tell whether it is effective or fake and harmful should you dare try applying it on your skin. Here are some of the ingredients you should avoid. The best thing to do is studying the ingredients on the back of the box to know what constituents a product has.
Alcohols:
Alcohols have a great downfall to using them as skin care products. Products containing alcohol such as methanol, isopropyl, ethanol and ethyl alcohol usually bring about skin dryness thus removing essential organic oils meant for skin moisturizing. These you should avoid because the more you use them, the more they lead to drying your skin ad this will only make your skin age very fast.
Collagens:
Many medical industries use this ingredient in a misleading manner. The reason why companies market anti-aging products containing collagens is to replenish the decreasing collagen of your body. What they will never tell you is those products constituting collagen has larger molecules that cannot pass through the skin. How then do you go about this issue? Always make sure you anti-aging products that stimulate the collagens of your own body.
Mineral Oils:
While mineral oils are essential ingredients for moisturizing the skin, they have their own drawbacks. The use of products containing this ingredient could lead to clogging up of skin pores leading to accruing of other skin ailments ad issues.