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There must be good reasons for using a natural skin care cream, everyone seems to be doing so now, but what are they? And what exactly is “natural” anyway?

Last question first. What does natural mean when you use it in a skin care context? There is no really one single answer. No clear definition of what natural skin care really is. Despite the fact that there are many natural anti aging skin care creams and other products on the market.

Is there any difference, for example, between natural skin care products and other skin care products labeled as botanical, or organic, or herbal?

Whilst there is no formal definition that doesnt mean that it is meaningless. It just means that the industry has no real way of establishing clearly what is natural and what is not.

In this case I tend to apply my own definition. To do this you need to consider the reasons why there is any need for a natural skin care product. After all why shouldnt people just buy ordinary non natural skin care products?

The reason is simple. The traditional skin care products that you usually see on the shelves of the stores are made up of many ingredients that are manufactured. They arent found growing in a tree or a plant, they are a synthesized chemical ingredient that a scientist somewhere has worked out performs a certain function.

One of the reasons for this is that it is often much cheaper to manufacture chemical ingredients than it is to take ingredients from nature.

Lets take Parabens. A class of chemicals used as a preservative. They are very cheap to manufacture and are used extensively in many products. But some scientists consider that there is a risk of cancer from long term use of Parabens.

In fact there are a lot of chemical (and petrochemical) ingredients in many skin care products that are considered suspect or even dangerous. Thats why there is a big and growing market for natural skin care products.

It’s surprising just how many people are now turning to more “natural” or “organic” or “herbal” or “botanical” skin care products because they are scared of potential risks from use of products with strange chemical ingredients.

So considering this I can formulate a definition. A natural skin care product is one composed only of ingredients found naturally and which are known to be safe for human use. And there’s more.

Natural skin care products should work as well or much better than mainstream skin care products. (Thats often not that hard as many mainstream skin care products dont work very well.)

In truth the best natural skin care products actually work way better than the mainstream skin care products.

So as you can see there is no formal definition of what a natural skin care cream is. But that doesnt mean that there is no reason to use one. There are in fact powerful reasons to use one.

They’re safe to use and they work better than the mainstream big brand skin care ranges.

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