| If you're using most mainstream skincare products, | | | | moisturizing ingredients. They're good lathering agents |
| you're likely aging your skin faster than if you used | | | | so they make your foaming skin cleansers foam and |
| nothing. That's because most big name companies fill | | | | your shampoo lather well but they're also used in |
| those pretty jars and tubes with parabens, alcohol, | | | | industrial cleaning solutions. As in, they're used to mop |
| and chemicals that don't work to keep your skin | | | | the floor at the local mall. |
| smooth and firm but instead use ingredients that dry | | | | Better to go with a skin care cream that's gentle on |
| your skin out and can even cause serious health | | | | your skin and will replenish, moisturize and prevent |
| problems. | | | | wrinkles rather than strip your skin of essential oils |
| Shocking isn't it? I mean, you spend good money on | | | | and age you quicker. These do exist but you do |
| a skincare cream to prevent wrinkles, moisturize your | | | | have to do a bit of searching. |
| skin and keep it looking young. I know I have. But | | | | Good ingredients to look for include Cynergy TK, this |
| after I started learning more about the beauty | | | | ingredient helps your skin stay wrinkle free and |
| industry my eyes have been opened and I look a lot | | | | maintain its shape. It's made from Functional Keratin |
| harder to find natural, plant based skin care | | | | which is an extract of sheep's wool. Sounds crazy I |
| moisturizing cream. | | | | know but it's clinically proven to improve your skin |
| You know those parabens I mentioned? Well, if you | | | | texture and stimulate your body to create more |
| don't know what they are, they're chemical | | | | collagen and elastin skin cells. |
| preservatives that keep your skin care cream the | | | | Another one of my favorite ingredients is the |
| right consistency. But they don't actually do anything | | | | Japanese sea kelp Phytessence Wakame. This is a |
| for your skin. Truthfully, scientists have proved them | | | | powerful ingredient that strengthens those important |
| as endocrine disruptors which means they've been | | | | collagen and elastin cells to keep your skin smooth |
| linked to a higher risk of breast cancer. | | | | and wrinkle free. It also creates more hyaluronic acid |
| As if that isn't enough, they're mixed with alcohol | | | | in your body which is also important in keeping your |
| with dries out your skin. Dry skin means more | | | | skin young looking. |
| wrinkles. So, you can see they're something to be | | | | It's important to look for a skin care cream with |
| avoided. | | | | ingredients that promote hydration, increased collagen |
| But if you go read the labels on most of the beauty | | | | and elastin cell renewal and stimulates hyaluronic acid |
| products at your local drugstore or department | | | | production. These are necessary ingredients in |
| store, you'll be hard pressed to find a paraben free | | | | maintaining young looking, smooth skin. |
| product. They're not that easy to find! | | | | They can be hard to find in the stores. However, |
| Parabens aren't the only things to avoid. Sodium | | | | they're available to anyone online. |
| laureth sulfates or lauryl sulfates are also not great | | | | |