Cosmetic Products And Skin

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What is your go-to skincare routine, and which products do you use regularly.

I don't disturb my natural skin with any artificial cosmetics. I try to maintain neutral skin. I use toilet soap to clean the skin everyday and finally wash it with boiled water of neem leaves. In the winter I massage master oil before bathing.

What are the benefits of using these cosmetic products?

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Glycolic acid cream is beneficial for uneven skin tone an/ d tanning.

Sebonac gel is beneficial for Pimples, acne, Fungal Acne /Comedones, and moderate whiteheads & blackheads.

Demelan cream is beneficial for dull skin, melasma, pigmentation and fine line wrinkles

What is the difference between natural cosmetic products and chemical based ones? Which one do you prefer and why?

The truth is, everything is a chemical: the water you drink, the food you eat, the oxygen you breathe. Even an all-natural pineapple contains thousands of chemicals - this is just a selection of them. As humans we have a bias to think that things that are natural are good, and things that are man-made or synthetic are bad.

The idea that safety is based on where something comes from, whether it's natural or man-made, is very widespread. But here's the truth. While not all chemicals are the same in terms of safety, the idea that a chemical is safer just because it comes from nature is a lie.

Here are some of the proper names for the chemicals in pineapple: methionine, octadecadienoic acid, ethyl 3-methylthiopropanoate, 2,5-dimethyl-4-hydroxy-3(2H)-furanone, ethyl 2-methylbutane, sesquiterpenes. They're just as hard to pronounce!

Here's that list of pineapple ingredients. When was the last time you saw a beauty product with an ingredients list that long?

Synthetic chemicals tend to be pure because the mixtures have been separated or the ingredient might have been made from scratch. It might make you feel better to see "pineapple" on a label rather than "ethyl 3-methyl thiopropanoate". But the truth is, ethyl 3-methyl thiopropanoate is only one of the many different chemicals in a pineapple.

Both natural and synthetic chemicals can be safe and dangerous. Oatmeal is natural and fantastic for irritated skin; poison ivy is natural and the exact opposite. Vitamin C in beauty products is usually synthetic and great for skin, but sodium lauryl sulfate is a well-known irritant. Sometimes even the same ingredient is safer from a particular source. For example, iron oxide pigments are found in nature but they have to be synthetically produced to be used in beauty products because the natural versions contain higher levels of toxic heavy metals.

In summary, don't get sucked in by marketing. Natural ingredients aren't safer. Synthetic ingredients aren't more toxic. And pretty much everything is made of chemicals including everything you find in nature.

Do you think the regular use of cosmetic products can damage our skin? If yes then share their drawbacks.

So what matters isn't the number of chemicals you're exposed to. What does matter is how harmful those chemicals are, how much you're exposed to, and how you're exposed to it.

For example I'd rather be exposed to these 10 ingredients than this one single ingredient, even though arsenic is a 100% pure and natural ingredient.

Unfortunately there's no easy shortcut or blanket rule that we can use to decide which products are the safest and most effective. Even though going "all natural" might be tempting on a gut level, the reality is far more complicated. We have to look at each ingredient and decide based on its own merits.

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