My very best anti aging tip is one you might not have thought of, but which is very important. The single best anti aging tip is to keep your body healthy. And one of the things that you can do to help stay healthy is to avoid mainstream beauty products such as cosmetics and anti aging products which often contain chemicals that can damage 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.
It might seem obvious, but it works. Remember that one of the things that you can do to damage your health is to buy anti aging products that may well contain chemicals that can affect your skin and your health. The reason is that so many mainstream anti aging products are made with chemicals that are known to be unhealthy and in some cases are known to cause cancer, and which have no role in good anti aging skin care.
I want to look at a range of chemical ingredients that are commonly found in so many anti aging and personal and beauty products today. Fragrances. Just about every personal products including anti aging skin products that you see mass marketed today contain some form of fragrance.
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. Chemical fragrances are known to be amongst the top allergens leading to a range of different allergies in people who are subject to them including asthma.
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.
This isn't all but you're probably getting the idea now. Modern personal products such as anti-aging products as well is a range of other cosmetic and beauty products contain chemical fragrances that may damage your health. And other chemicals as well.
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.
The good news is that there are companies that recognize the problems with chemical ingredients in modern skin care products and which make excellent and cost competitive anti aging products that do not contain chemical ingredients such as fragrance. However these are small niche companies that struggled to compete in the open market with that the mega players that make the products that you probably 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.
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