Facial Moisturizers; Healing or Harming?
If you are like many people, you use facial moisturizers. You may not use it every day, but most people use them at least from time to time. Have you ever stopped to wonder, however, if that moisturizer is helping or hurting your skin? Today I will take a look at different facial products and help you learn how to answer that question quickly and correctly. ÂThere is a quick and easy answer to this question for most people. Look at the back of your skin care product. Are there any alcohols? If so, then your facial cream is definitely hurting your skin. Are there fragrances, dyes, or other chemicals? If so, then you are doing double damage. Â
Alcohol is very drying to the skin. This means that no matter how much moisturizer you put on, if there is alcohol in it, you will only continue to make your problem worse. The same goes for petroleum. While it makes your skin feel moist, it is actually causing damage and interfering with your skinð€™s natural protection. At the end of the day, there is no chemical in facial moisturizers that is going to change your face for the better. Â
Think of it like this. What if I asked you to take a drink of pesticide? Or how about a sip of perfume? This would not only be unpleasant, but rather dangerous. Did you know that anything that is absorbed into your skin enters your bloodstream? For that reason, I highly advise the following rule: If you canð€™t safely eat it, do not put it on your skin. Â
Clearly I am not advocating that you rush to the refrigerator in search of something to remove acne or wrinkles. What I am advocating is using all-natural facial moisturizers. I propose to you the following example to explain the benefit of organic ingredients versus their chemical counterparts. Â
You have likely heard of the protein keratin. Made by the skin, it is responsible for healing and elasticity. Once you begin to produce less keratin, you see more wrinkles and scar more easily.   Â
Some facial cream at the drug store claims to contain keratin. This is only partially true. These products do, in fact, contain an inactive synthetic form of the protein. The keyword here is inactive, which means it has no effect. In reality the body can not use synthetic proteins because it does not recognize them. Â
I now offer to you a product called Cynergy TK, or functional keratin. Derived from the wool of New Zealand sheep, Cynergy TK is almost structurally identical to human keratin. In fact, the body can not tell the difference. Cynergy TK is an active and natural protein. Â
Functional keratin is scientifically proven to not only reduce wrinkles and restore elasticity, but it also promotes the growth of new skin. No chemical can live up to these results. Cynergy TK is only one of a long list of organic ingredients that provide dramatic and research proven results every single time. Â
The ingredient I recommend the highest is called active manuka honey. It can tighten pores and provide an excellent facial cleaning, making it one of the best ingredients to look for in quality facial moisturizers. The real benefit to active manuka honey, though, goes far beyond the skin. While it is a strong antioxidant and can destroy free radicals in all seven layers of the skin, manuka honey has an amazing secondary effect.Â
Manuka honey is a strong antibacterial agent. It is known to boost the immune system, fighting off colds and ulcers and helping to heal burns and cuts. What other ingredient can offer true health benefits simply by being applied to the skin?Â
These are only a couple of the truly revolutionary organic ingredients on the market these days. With years of research and results to back them up, these ingredients are proven time and time again. If you want a facial cream that is truly healthy for your skin and your body, I urge you to look into formulas containing these ingredients and others like them. The concept is surprising, but the results are nothing short of amazing!