Are Natural Beauty Products Better For Your Face?

If you regularly follow the media, chances are that you have read about the harmful effects of synthetic beauty products and the superiority of natural beauty products over them. For various reasons this has lately been the topic of discussion. But isn’t it strange! Quite so many of you may be using these products for a long time and may even have developed loyalties and preferences for certain brands. And one fine day, you find out that the same products may be detrimental to your own interests. So here we set out to examine whether this is the case and if so why?

The most important thing to consider before applying anything on the body is where it came from. Most of us have been so conditioned to use synthetic beauty products that we may have used them for years without paying attention to what they contain and whether they are effective at all. Being rational and not believing anything at face value, we must act responsibly and always check out what we apply on our body.

Checking the container of a product is a good way to understand the ingredients of a product. Odds are that if you are not a medical professional, you will not understand what they are! But with the Internet at our disposal, beauty companies can no longer use jargon to have their way in selling anything to us. Just try Googling what those ingredients really are and try and figure out their effects on the body. You will be alarmed to say the least to find out the number of disorders and allergies this stuff is associated with! Not more than 60% of it is fit for application on the human body. In some cases they are even known to contain carcinogenic material.

As against all this try to Google the ingredients of natural beauty products. Firstly, about 50% of the material can be recognized straight off the cover. Everyone knows what a papaya is and whether it can help your skin. The remaining 50% may be exotic herbs which an average person may not have heard about because they may not be consumed every day. Possibly, they may not even grow in their country. Many exotic herbs are imported for their medicinal properties. Ingredients of these natural beauty products are 100% fit for application on the body. They have been created by Mother Nature to enhance our well being.

Another, most vigorously contented arguments by advocates of natural beauty products is that they do not create any sort of dependencies. Many synthetic products have been found guilty of this. For instance a product which seemingly claimed to help people get rid of their dry skin was actually doing more harm. On scientific evaluation it was found that it could indeed provide temporary relief. But, in the long run one had to remain hooked to it or else the skin would be worse off than it was before.

This in effect is like a cigarette addiction for your skin. Just like nicotine addicts need more and more doses to feel normal, you would have to apply more and more of the product to keep the temporary relief going until one fine day you discover you have inflicted some serious problems on to yourself in doing so!

This is absolutely not the case with organic beauty products. You can use or not use them completely at your own will. In fact many claim that they will take longer to produce the desired effect, but once the effect is seen absolutely no more application would be required. You could still continue if you wanted to! There would be no harm, but the product in itself does not mandate any sort of addiction.

The reason why natural beauty products are in the limelight is not because they are new. These are century and even millennia old recipes that have been time tested for their effectiveness. But they were taken over, by the “quick fix” methods that had seemingly been made possible by advances in science and medical technology. But of late, the side effects of the same have come to the forefront.

Almost every ingredient used in synthetic products is single handedly capable of producing grave bodily harm in the form of side effects. Allergies and skin infections are common occurrences. Some have gone even further to dangerous and potentially fatal diseases like cancer.

Natural beauty products promote the idea of feeling beautiful as opposed to looking beautiful. This is why they take longer to show their effects. They solve the problem from the root cause. Most natural products will talk about a holistic approach in dealing with it. The skin is nothing but a mirror of the body. Good skin signals good underlying health, which is also why people find it so attractive. Everyone wants a fit and healthy partner, isn’t it!

Organic beauty products will try to make sure that your entire body gets nourished. They will prescribe diet solutions along with bodily application. If you are deficient in certain ingredients, they will make sure you consume it. You should feel beautiful the right way. Real beauty is earned and a product sold for a few dollars, promising overnight results is nothing but a way to use your fascination for beauty to extort money from your pocket.

When you apply natural products you tend to feel better. A part of the experience is caused by the freshness of the smell that you feel! Most people would have been used to the pungent chemical smells of the synthetic products which may be disguised using fragrances. The reason being, that if they were not used, you wouldn’t apply them at all, for the sheer stink that they produce.

As you do your research on the ingredients, you will discover that most of these are not even Class A chemical ingredients. They may be by-products of a process. And that will not be good looking or smelling. It needs serious disguising, which is why fragrances are used.

But with natural products, you could tell the ingredients just by the smell. A papaya product will smell like a papaya. A coconut will smell like a coconut. Walk down to one of the beauty stores and get a small pack for yourself. Once you apply it, you will figure out the difference. Even if you were blindfolded, when you bought it, you could simply tell what flavor it is by the smell.

The important thing under consideration here is that natural ingredients are accepted and fit almost seamlessly with our body as against synthetic ingredients which come from shady sources and are detested by our body!

The tendency to equate quality with price can be dangerous as far as beauty products are concerned. Synthetic products are expensive than natural beauty products but certainly not better. They are expensive because most of their materials are the outcome of chemical processes. On the other hand if you need a mango, all you need to do is grow it. It will certainly not cost you millions!

The price has more to do with the source of raw materials being used and not so much with the quality of the products. If natural beauty products can be manufactured at a better cost, there is no reason why manufacturers should exploit the consumers with extravagant pricing.

In fact you need not even buy any of these products from the market. A little bit of research and you will find the recipe that you can use to prepare the perfect shampoo or the perfect skin care cream at home! Natural ingredients are easily available. Some of them may be in your home already. Try procuring sodium triglyceride or something equally weird and you will know why it is expensive!

 “Feel beautiful” is not just a tagline or an advertising campaign. It is a philosophy embodied in natural beauty products. When you use them, a lot of them contain what is called antioxidants. Antioxidants are materials which help build up our immune against the antibodies that damage our system. Antioxidants help you combat stress and pollution effectively. After a few days you begin to feel energetic and more charged up for the day. This may give you the impression of being on steroids. But the truth is quite the reverse, you were on parasites earlier! You were earlier exposed to antibodies rather than anti-oxidants and just kept wondering, why you felt ten years older than you actually were.

·            Another reason to use natural beauty products is that you are not only beautifying yourself, but the whole environment. You will be surprised to find out the amount of pollution that is caused by these cosmetic companies while procuring their ingredients! With natural products, everything grows on a farm. The way it ought to be done! There is a reason, why the elderly wise called Earth beautiful. Apart from the panoramic beauty, the systemic beauty is more startling! Everything we need to solve our problems is around us and yet we somehow seem to wander away to synthetic alternatives!