The beauty industry is developing simply with space speed: one after another come out with new products, improved technology, open some “revolutionary” means. Producers how can earn on our desire to stay young and beautiful. It’s no joke to find the baldness remedy in the world spend more money than on developing a cure for cancer.
How not to drown in this flow of new products and to distinguish useful remedy advertised pacifiers? Maybe it’s easier to throw all these jars and leave on the shelf just olive oil? Talk about the nine most popular and dangerous beauty myths that force you to spend money on useless tools.
1. Organic cosmetics – the most useful
Sales of organics only in America and Europe grow on average by 20% per year, and the words “natural” and “natural” have become almost synonymous with the word “good”.
In fact, organic cosmetics are not more useful usual. To put on the packaging of the cream of the word organic, producers must follow a few rules:
- Not less than 90% of the ingredients must be of vegetable origin.
- The field where harvested plants for cosmetic, can not be treated with synthetic substances.
- Plant substances can be extracted only “natural” way – extraction.
Sounds good, but what happens in practice? The manufacturer starts to chase not for medium efficiency, and its environmental cleanliness. Active ingredients becomes less, and they quickly deteriorate.
Organics have many disadvantages: the cream without preservatives goes bad for a few days and require complete sterility. A sulfate-free shampoo bad hair. A conditioner without silicones protects hair and makes it shiny. Anti-aging organic cosmetics and not effective, because plant extracts will never replace the synthetic collagen or hyaluronic acid. So is it worth to pay more for natural remedies, if it doesn’t work?
2. Olive oil or coke better than cream
Vegetable oils have many beneficial properties, but even the most natural and high quality will not hydrate and will not protect the skin as it will make the “real” makeup. Cream developed specifically for our skin: they have more active ingredients and they work better. So the creams and serums are never more than 40% oil – all other components are chosen based on skin type, age and needs.
In addition, fats in a pure form can clog pores, cause acne, and even dry skin. All because the natural oils break fat metabolism of the skin and creates a film that prevents it to breathe.
3. Cosmetics with hormones is dangerous
In Russia cosmetics with estrogen banned since 1998 due to severe side effects. All I can offer you cosmetic firm is a phytoestrogen, which are derived from plants. These hormones 5000 times weaker than the human, so they are completely harmless and can only act on the skin.
4. Aluminium in deodorants causes cancer
British scientists conducted a study supposedly proved that aluminium in antiperspirant causes breast cancer. The authors explained this by the fact that in tissues affected by the tumor, aluminium was more than healthy.
In fact, the experience proved nothing because it was attended by only 17 people – but this is negligible for scientific research. Not been proven and that is exactly aluminium causes swelling, not a tumor attracts aluminium. So while this version groundless.
5. Mineral oil should be avoided
Mineral oil is particularly scary lovers of everything organic and natural – and all because it is made from oil. In fact, there is nothing to fear: the substance was allowed to add in cosmetics in the US, the UK and the European Union. Before oil becomes oil, it goes through so many cleanings that already with oil nothing remains.
Mineral oil has been used for over a hundred years, and the same study. No research has confirmed that it somehow negatively affects health. Rumors about the fact that mineral oil causes acne, also turned out to be just rumors. In 2005, scientists in the US proved that cosmetics containing up to 30% oil, not a drop does not clog pores.
6. Between expensive and cheap cosmetics there is no difference
Yes, it happens that under the guise of cosmetics luxury sale the most common means beautiful in the tube. But most of all occurs on the contrary: dear brands use quality base and add ingredients that what is called in the afternoon with fire not find.
For example, in cream from the supermarket will never get extract Royal Orchid or flower green tea, grown only on Jeju island, at the foot of mount Halla. Effective, exclusive, beautiful, but you must pay 400$ – all orchids will not suffice.
7. From parabens too best to refuse
The parabens are preservatives that do not allow the cream to broken, once you have it open. In 2002 he published a study which supposedly proved that these substances penetrate through the skin into the body, accumulate in tissues and cause cancer.
But 3 years later the hypothesis was refuted: a new study has shown that parabens fall before enter the blood. The European cosmetic Association has recognized their use in cosmetics is perfectly safe.
8. In summer you as often as possible to use thermal water
If the “termalna” just spray on your face and leave, it will start to evaporate and pull a moisture from the skin. In the end, instead of wetting you will get dehydrated. Thermal water to wet a cloth, and even better to put water before or after moisturizer.
9. The water from the cream in the cold turns to ice and damage the skin
Sounds reasonable, but one important detail is overlooked: the skin is ice-free on. The temperature on its surface even in the most severe frost does not drop below 32 degrees. No ice will not – can safely apply any cream.