Are you a petrol head?
Friday, February 7, 2014 @ 5:27 PM
This isn't about the car you drive - it's about the skin care you use! You may not realise it, but many of the leading brands of skin care products use petroleum byproducts in their preparations. If the ingredients list includes mineral oil, petroleum jelly, petrolatum or paraffin wax, then your skin cream contains the same stuff they use to fuel cars, rustproof tools and preserve wood, among other things.
Okay, it's cleaned up, but even the cleaning and refining process doesn't eliminate all the impurities - in fact, it picks up a few more along the way. Some of these are known carcinogenics - in other words, they can cause cancer.
Skin care companies promote petroleum by-producs as 'locking in mositure,' but they also lock in the dirt and waste products that would naturally exit the body through the pores, as well as locking out natural moisture and much-needed oxygen from the atmosphere.
Petroleum products are basically a one trick pony - all they do is moisturise. They don't provide your skin with the essential vitamins and antioxidants which can be readily obtained from plant-based oils. Here in Spain, we're lucky enough to have ready access to olive oil, shea butter and even jojoba oil, all of which are completely natural and contain compounds which are good for skin health, as well as moisturising the complexion. I've made the switch to natural skin care - maybe it's time you did!
