All Natural, Organic and Food in ProductsFor most cosmetics companies All Natural means mainly just plant extracts in their formulations. The ingredient list may include a range of extracts with a long list of plant names following. Even if an all-organic or all-natural product did exist, you wouldn't want to use it on your skin.
So-called, all natural ingredients can themselves cause allergies, irritation, and skin sensitivities. Just think of how many people suffer hay fever, hives, and you begin to realize just how unfriendly certain natural ingredients may sometimes be.
The notion that all natural equals good skin care or better makeup will waste your money and probably harm your skin. The majority of women who buy these skin care products or cosmetics are probably never going to be able to believe this. The pressure to believe the untruth about all natural products being better for the skin is hard to resist. Women really want to believe the hype because they feel they are better, safe and going green is the new trend.
What makes this natural craze so annoying and undesirable is that it perpetuates myths that can hurt a woman's skin. The label might say organic and natural but you could be buying a purely irritating product that might cause an allergic reaction. All natural ingredients are one of the most bogus, misleading components of the cosmetics industry. They focus attention on the wrong information.
I am not saying there aren't some natural-sounding ingredients that are good for the skin, because there are. Natural or nature identical ingredients that are vitamins or antioxidants are safe, but would not have any fragrance that would harm skin. Completely different from what is promoted/used in many all natural and organic lines.
Note:
1. Food-type ingredients in products increase the need for additional preservatives to decrease mold and bacterial contamination. Many natural lines do not have preserving ingredients strong enough to cope with the amount of bacteria of food or contamination from consumers. Some natural ingredients used for preserving have some preserving ability but can be highly fragrant and irritating.
2. Food can also feed the bacteria present in skin, increasing the risk of getting breakouts. Mashing up raw foods to spread on your skin is not the way you get antioxidants into the skin or give you great looking skin. What you can get though, is contamination problems.
3. Plant oil extracts are no longer pure plants once processed.
4. Yeast or bacteria cultures in cosmetics can exacerbate conditions like Rosacea and psoriasis.
Sensé products are not what are considered as "all-natural" or "organic". Sensé is the balance of revolutionary science and nature through cellular nutrition for skin. All the Sensé products have been extensively tested under dermatologist and ophthalmologist supervised conditions. Also, all products and ingredients are reviewed and analyzed by board certified toxicologists for cytology and toxicology. Sensé ingredients all comply with safety standards set by governmental regulations. USANA is confident with their advanced Self-preserving-(chemical free) technology and ingredients, Sensé products are of the highest degree for customer satisfaction. Without compromising safety, performance or quality of the products.
Bea Kinnear
Your Skin & You, 5th Edition
www.yourskinandyou.net
