If you are in pursuit of a healthy lifestyle, choosing organic skincare is a priority. Why? Professional organic skincare products work better, and are better for you.
When you choose organic skincare, you are choosing products whose ingredients work with the natural systems of your skin and body. Given the right nutrients, our skin has the ability to care for and mend itself. Our bodies use nutrients absorbed not only through food, but also through the skin. It is medically understood that what goes on your skin absorbs into your bloodstream and is carried through your body.(Think of Lidocaine patches or the stop smoking patches) Why is it that we examine what we put IN our body and not what we put ON it? Did you know that after eight seconds of putting something on your skin, it is as though you have eaten it? Actually, 60% of what you put on your skin makes its way into your body…only 30% gets in through the food you eat (stomach acids destroy some of what we eat). You have probably thought about the benefits of eating a healthy diet. What about the effects of all the chemicals in the skin products that you are slathering on and rubbing in?
Increasing studies show the connection between illness and chemicals. We need to eliminate or reduce our exposure. Synthetics are simply not necessary in skincare and in many cases they’re just scary. Sometimes they are causing harm we cannot see. This exposure rears its ugly head as skin irritation, chronic headaches, hormone disruption, and more serious issues over the long term. The range of symptoms is vast.
Why do companies use synthetics? First and foremost: money. Cheap ingredients make more of a profit. Many commercial products will give you instant gratification. Most of these products are designed to do a simple job… Smoother skin, less visible wrinkles, tighter skin, sun spots disappear, and they can deliver. All too often there is a high price… asphyxiation of the skin, accelerated dehydration, photosensitivity. Cutting oxygen exchange to the skin, premature aging, increased risk of sun spots. Yes, the very things we were fighting….
Organic Skincare has come a long way from when I started using them in the mid 80’s. They are more elegant and they work. Plant stem cell technology, acids and anti-oxidants are paving the way in the anti-aging arena. Have you detoxified your skincare routine?
