We’ve talked at length about dangerous ingredients in your skin care products and cosmetics. And about the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics as well.

Here’s a video about it. It’s only short but it tells you a little more. It talks purely about dangerous cosmetics/safe cosmetics but of course the same things all apply to skin care products and anti aging products as well.

We hope you find the video interesting. It’s just a few more things for you to think about before you buy those skin care and anti aging products you normally buy, (unless you buy your skin care products here.)

Interesting isn’t it?

If you have oily skin you know all about the difficulty of finding a good moisturizer for oily skin. We’ll explain why today and give you some options for oily skin moisturizers (that aren’t really moisturizers at all) that will work not only to moisturize your skin but also to improve your overall skin health.

There is a problem that is shared between many different moisturizers for oily skin. The problem arises because of the ingredients used in many of these oily skin products and oily skin treatments.

Most mainstream skin care products including moisturizers contain chemical ingredients which have often been developed in a laboratory. They also contain petrochemical ingredients which come from crude oil.

The result is that many of these ingredients found in so many skin care products including moisturizers for oily skin can be damaging to your health and for this reason organizations like the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics have been set up to combat the proliferation of dangerous and chemical ingredients in so many personal products such as skin care products and cosmetics.

However it’s not just the risk to your health from the use of chemical ingredients that is a concern. The other problem is that many of them do not work successfully, particularly for people with oily skin. Let us explain.

Here’s an example of a petrochemical ingredient found in many oily skin creams and oily skin cleansers that is not good for your skin. Mineral oil. If you look on the label of so many mainstream skin care products will see mineral oil listed there as an ingredient. It may not necessarily say mineral oil because mineral oil goes by a whole range of different names including petrolatum, liquid petroleum, petroleum jelly, paraffin wax, liquid paraffin, white oil, baby oil and a whole range of other names.

Mineral oil comes from crude oil and is actually a byproduct of the process of distilling crude oil. Mineral oil is exceedingly cheap and this is the major reason why it is found in so many skin care products and other personal and beauty products. Mineral oil is also commonly found in moisturizers.

If you search at the Cosmetic Safety Database you will find that mineral oil is linked to cancer, allergies and irritation to the skin, eyes and lungs amongst other things. Search out a Material Safety Data Sheet on mineral oil and you will see a range of hazard warnings for health.

Mineral oil, often in conjunction with other petrochemical products, is included in products such as moisturizers for dry skin as well is moisturizers for oily skin because it is so cheap. However mineral oil does not have any moisturizing properties of it’s own. Rather the intention is that the mineral oil will prevent moisture loss from the skin, and that principle is a good one, though mineral oil is not a good way to achieve it.

The way mineral oil is supposed to prevent moisture loss from the skin is by taking the skin with a thin layer of oil. As mineral oil does not readily penetrate the skin it remains on the surface of the skin, thereby helping to stop moisture loss.

However some mineral oil can be absorbed and once absorbed it can interfere with the absorption of vitamins into your system potentially creating vitamin deficiency problems.

Not only that but because mineral oil forms a thin film of oil on your skin it can clog the pores of your skin potentially leading to acne and other skin problems. If you have oily skin the last thing you need to do is to coat your skin with a film of mineral oil. And as well it inhibits the ability of your skin to eliminate toxins through the pores.

Examine the label of the oily skin moisturizers that you may use now to see if mineral oil, under its own name or a related name, appears there.

If mineral oil is not the best oily skin moisturizer then how do you find a good moisturizer if you have oily skin? The answer is not in moisturizing the skin but in creating better skin health that allows the skin to stay moisturized itself.

There are excellent natural skin care products which are very effective at moisturizing the skin but which do not use any chemical or petrochemical ingredients. The company that makes these products does not even make a moisturizer because all of the ingredients that produce a moisturizing effect are found in all their products.

There are many well-known natural ingredients which are known to be excellent at moisturizing the skin. Ingredients such as Shea butter, Babassu oil, avocado extract and the extracts of seaweed and sheeps wool all combine to actively moisturize the skin as well as promote better skin health, which itself in turn creates better skin moisture levels.

However it is rare to find skin care products that use these ingredients because they are much more expensive than ingredients such as mineral oil which costs almost nothing. However one company does produce extremely high quality natural skin care products which relies on these ingredients as well as many others to produce some of the best skin care products the world has known.

These products would be extremely expensive except for one thing. The company that makes them doesn’t advertise on television and so it is not necessary to factor a huge marketing budget into the price of the products and for this reason these excellent natural skin care products are extremely cost competitive with the big name brands of oily skin moisturizers that you see on the shelves.

And this company doesn’t even differentiate between oily skin and dry skin when making it’s products because they work equally well for either skin type.

So if you have oily skin you have some options if you’re seeking to improve your skin health. Better moisturizing is only a small part of overall skin health and there are products that promote better skin health as well as better levels of skin moisture in an overall skin care routine.