| Most women will pick up women's magazines and | | | | skin types. These products are enriched with naturally |
| avidly read the beauty pages and reviews of new | | | | sourced ingredients. But you do have to be careful of |
| beauty products. These magazines will tell you what | | | | what you buy. |
| the latest anti-wrinkle cream or what new moisturiser | | | | Natural body products line the shelves of drug and |
| you must buy. Most beauty journalists are sent free | | | | department stores, but do you know what you are |
| sample of the latest products for publicity purposes. | | | | really getting when you buy these products? Just |
| The beauty journalists will then rave on about how | | | | because a label says "organic" or "natural" does not |
| good a certain product is in their beauty column. What | | | | automatically make it so. Manufactures of these |
| they are really telling you is what the big companies | | | | products will label their products as organic or natural |
| want to sell you. Not whether these beauty products | | | | even if they have a certain percentage of natural |
| are really any good or going to work for you. | | | | ingredients in them. The rest of the ingredients in these |
| What you will never be told is what is really in these | | | | products will have synthetic fragrances, preservatives |
| beauty products. A lot of the sophisticated anti-ageing | | | | and so on. |
| formulas claim to have unique ingredients in them. But | | | | Another alternative is to make your own skincare and |
| really there is little difference between them. Many of | | | | beauty products at home. A lot of the ingredients we |
| them contain ingredients that can actually damage | | | | need to make beauty products sit in our kitchens. So |
| your skin and have serious health implications over long | | | | you can make a large variety of natural body products |
| term. A lot of the beauty products on the market | | | | right in your kitchen? Nearly any type of body product |
| today contain skin irritants such as strong perfumes | | | | that you can buy in the stores, you can make yourself |
| and colours. Some even have cancer causing | | | | at home. Not only will you save a lot of money by |
| compounds in them. | | | | making these products yourself, it is not nearly as time |
| Nowadays more and more people are becoming | | | | consuming as most people think. The natural products |
| aware of the dangerous effects of the beauty | | | | you make at home can be made as how you want |
| products out in the market today and are looking for | | | | them. For example if you want to make something light |
| alternatives. Alternatives such as natural cosmetics | | | | or more moisturizing, preservative free or use natural |
| and beauty products which are free from all harsh | | | | preservatives such as vitamin E or honey. The choice |
| toxic synthetic chemicals and therefore suitable for all | | | | is entirely up to you. |