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?

Are you looking to buy natural skin care products because you’ve become aware that many big brand skin care products may in fact contain dangerous ingredients?

(Or for that matter are you looking to buy natural skin care products because you’ve become aware that they actually work better than the big brand skin care and anti aging products?)

Either way you ought to be aware of some important things before you buy.

The Safety Of “Natural” Skin Care Products

Gradually people are becoming aware that many skin care and anti aging products like moisturizers, face creams, night and day creams and so on contain ingredients that may in fact be bad for your health. That includes cosmetics and many other personal products.

Quick example, a recent study found lead in many big brand lipsticks. Now is that scary or what?

So many women are now turning to natural and organic skin care lines to find products that are safe to use.

But are all of these products free of suspect ingredients? No. There is no definition of what “natural” skin care is, and just because the word “natural” is used in the name is no guarantee that they will only contain safe ingredients.

The FDA isn’t required to test or to satisfy itself that the products contain safe ingredients, that’s why the problem exists in the first place. It’s the same with “natural” or “organic” skin care products and anti aging products.

There are so called “natural” products that have been found containing 1,4-dioxane, a byproduct of a petrochemical process, suspected as carcinogenic. To find out more about this visit organicconsumers.org.

So how do you buy natural skin care products with confidence that they will both work well and be safe to use?

Firstly buy only from a supplier that has signed the Compact For Safe Cosmetics evidencing their commitment to use only safe ingredients.

Secondly you can search individual products at the Cosmetic Safety Database to see if they are considered to have dangerous ingredients.

If you do these two things you should be reasonably confident that the products are safe to use. But that doesn’t tell you they work well.

So, next problem if you’re looking to buy natural skin care products. How do you know they work well?

Without trying them there really is no way to know for sure. The best way is to try them. And if you try skin care products and they don’t work for you you need to be able to get your money back, or you’ve wasted your money.

In our view the best natural skin care products are those of Xtend Life. They have signed the Compact, their products don’t contain dangerous ingredients and they have a publicly stated commitment to both products safety and efficacy, both by signing the compact and on their website.

They stand by both the safety and effectiveness of their products and they put their money where their mouth is by offering a money back guarantee.

As we say, the best way to find out is, firstly, to satisfy yourself about safety, and secondly to try the products. With Xtend Life products you can do so risk free. We know they work from all the feedback we’ve seen, but for you to convince yourself give the products a try.

But don’t think that if you buy natural skincare products that is sufficient to ensure that you’ve got safe products. You may not.

Is that right? Are natural skin care ingredients irrelevant as long as it works? Lets have a look at this as we saw that exact comment recently on a skincare website.

“I don’t care what’s in it as long as it works”.

Firstly lets talk about why so many people are now turning to natural skin care products. The reasons seem to be twofold as far as we can tell.

1. That there is a slow realization amongst consumers of skincare products that there really are naturally occurring substances that are extremely good for your skin.

There’s now no doubt about that. In the past we have talked about Phytessence Wakame for example. This is a seaweed found in Japan that has extraordinary properties that are excellent for skin health, and this is one of the major reasons why Japanese women have such good skin. They eat the important ingredient.

Or perhaps Shea Butter, the oil from the nut of the African Shea tree, one of the best moisturizers around. And there’s many many more examples of natural skin care ingredients that are as effective, and in many cases better, than the ingredients used in mainstream big brand skin care products.

2. There is also a growing realization that the big brand name products often contain dangerous ingredients. That is often the case where there is a chemical ingredient that can be used in a product that is way cheaper than a more natural, more expensive, alternative.

We have also written extensively about the dangerous ingredients that can be found in skin care products and cosmetics, (and some so called natural skin care products too).

So if you consider these 2 reasons for the big movement towards more natural skin care products it does seem to us that the ingredients that are found in your products ARE important.

You the consumer wants SAFE ingredients and EFFECTIVE ingredients. So the whole consumer movement towards all natural and organic skincare products is driven by a concern about what INGREDIENTS are in them.

Give us safe and effective products any day.

So natural skin care ingredients DO matter.

Do you get safe and effective ingredients in all natural skin care products? No, not necessarily. If you’re interested in finding out more read here.

But there is a process that you can go through to find the best natural skin care products that have ingredients that are both safe and effective. We’ve done that and we are fully convinced that the best natural skincare products using only safe ingredients that are extremely effective, is the products of Xtend Life.

They offer products with very safe ingredients, and are a signatory to the Compact For Safe Cosmetics. They are open and transparent about the ingredients that go into their products and list them on their website. And their products work extremely well, and are money back guaranteed.

That is pretty pursuasive, especially finding a company that offers a money back guarantee on skin care products.So if you’re looking for great all natural skin care, ingredients do matter. You need to know that you’re using products with safe and effective ingredients.