One of the best anti aging tips is something you might not expect. The best anti aging tip that I can give you is to keep yourself healthy, and one of the single best ways to help you stay healthy is to avoid big name anti aging products which may contain damaging chemicals that can affect your health.
Why is the best anti aging tip to stay healthy? Because staying healthy means that your body will show it. Your body, and your skin, reflect your overall state of health and if you’re state of health is poor then your skin will probably be poor as well. It’s very hard to have great looking glowing skin if the rest of your body is unhealthy.
And although it may seem strange to say it, particularly if this is the first time that you’ve heard about this, one of the things that can damage your health is to use mainstream anti-aging products. This is because they are laden with man-made chemicals, many of which are known to be bad for us, and in some cases are known to cause cancer. These ingredients have nothing to do with good anti aging skin care.
Today I want to look at one of the most common ingredients found in so many anti ageing products available on the market. Fragrances. In just about all of the mainstream skin care products you see on the shelves of your local store you will find a fragrance. This includes many products other than anti aging skin care products, for example deodorants, and many other products.
I can almost hear you asking what is the problem with fragrances? Surely fragrances make me smell nice and there’s nothing wrong with smelling nice is there? Don’t they come from distilled flower petals or something like that?
Sorry to bring bad news but most fragrances are just chemicals designed in laboratories. They’re designed to smell good but in other respects they’re no different from any other chemicals. Some can be dangerous. And you can’t even tell what chemical fragrances are in your products because the companies that manufacture anti aging products with fragrances are allowed to use general terms on the labels such as “fragrance”. That’s because they’re worried about protecting their “secret formula” for their fragrances.
Lets have a look at some of the problems with fragrances in mainstream skin care and anti-aging products.
1. There’s a range of chemical fragrances that are used in products in the US but which are banned in Europe. The European Union’s scientific committee on cosmetic products and non-food products has found in studies that somewhere around 2 out of 100 people can become sensitised to fragrances and this can lead to allergic reactions and may even damage their immune system.
2. An allergen is something that can cause allergies in people. Chemical fragrances are known to be bad allergens and can cause allergies in allergy sufferers.
3. In 1986 in the US the National Academy of Sciences found that there were some fragrances that they could identify as being a potential neurotoxin, and which could potentially cause brain damage.
There’s more but I’m sure from what I’ve already said above you’re starting to get the picture. There are many many personal products such as anti aging skin care products, cosmetics, deodorants and much more that contain chemical fragrances that can be risky to your health. And there’s other chemicals as well but that’s for another day.
That brings us back to our best anti aging tip. Staying healthy is about the best thing you can do to stay looking good right into your old age. And ultimately, although looking good is important, being healthy and feeling great is more important, and that in turn leads to looking good anyway.
Bombarding your body with artificial chemicals, such as chemical fragrances, can be a risk to your health and can have the exact opposite effect to what you’re trying to achieve, namely to stay healthy and look good and keep the effects of age at bay as long as possible.
There are companies that recognize the problems inherent in so many modern anti aging and personal products and which seek to make high quality natural skin care and anti aging products that do not contain dangerous chemical ingredients like chemical fragrances. However these are small companies struggling in the market to compete with the big players that probably make the anti aging products you may use now.
So remember my biggest anti aging tip. Stay healthy on the inside and your skin will thank you for it, and one of the ways of doing that is to use natural skin care products and natural anti aging products that do not contain chemical ingredients such as fragrances. Stay healthier and look better.
If you’d like to find out more about small manufacturers that make high quality natural anti aging skin products that do not contain chemical fragrances then you can do so on my website.