You Don’t Want To See Petrolatum In Your Anti Wrinkle Cream. Why?

Posted on November 14, 2009
Filed Under Aging Skin Care, how to get rid of acne |

If you’ve ever looked on the shelves of your local Department store you probably know that there are hundreds or perhaps even thousands of anti aging products such as anti wrinkle creams and anti aging moisturizers. The shame is that most of them are particularly ineffective but even more worrying is that many of them contain chemical ingredients that are known to be damaging to your health. Petrolatum is a good example of such a chemical ingredient.

You probably know about Vaseline. Vaseline is pure petrolatum, and you may also have heard of white petroleum, petroleum jelly, petroleum wax or white petrolatum. These are other names for petrolatum. It is a petrochemical product and this means that it comes from crude oil distillation.

An organisation called the Cosmetic Safety Database tracks these ingredients and if you examine their website you’ll see that petrolatum is linked to cancer as well as contamination problems as well is non-reproductive toxicity. They describe the risk to your health from petrolatum as low to moderate however that is not the only consideration. They describe problems of contamination and it is this that poses the risk to your health. During various manufacturing processes petrolatum can be contaminated with chemicals called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or what are otherwise known as PAHs. These are considered to be very toxic and linked to a range of health problems including cancer.

The companies that make anti wrinkle creams and anti aging moisturizers don’t test for the presence of PAHs in their products and so it is quite possible that they are in there without you knowing. They will not be listed on the label.

If petrolatum and PAHs pose a risk to your health why are they used in products such as anti aging skin products, anti aging moisturizers and anti wrinkle creams? There is one simple answer. Petrolatum is incredibly cheap. The cheaper the ingredients the more profit they make on the products. The FDA isn’t required to find out whether any of these ingredients are in the products and they don’t. The anti aging companies are able to get away with it so they do.

There are some highly effective natural ingredients which are known to promote better skin health and which are extremely safe to use but these are rarely used in most mainstream anti aging products because they are much more expensive and therefore reduce profit margins.

But it is possible to get excellent anti wrinkle creams and other antiaging skin products which do use these ingredients. These products are safe and highly effective and of course they are also much more expensive to make. They would be uncompetitive to buy because of the price except for one thing. They are not advertised.

For this reason these companies do not advertise their products and rely on word of mouth and a slow organic growth of a solid loyal customer base over time. And also for this reason chances are high that you’ve never heard of the companies, one in particular, that makes these excellent anti aging products.

So there is excellent news. You can buy high quality anti aging products and if you look on the label of any of these products you won’t see petrolatum or any other chemical or petrochemical ingredients on the label. They are extremely effective, use much more expensive ingredients and deliver what is asked of them.

If you’d like to find out who makes these products then visit my website.

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