Beauty

[Icegoddess]

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@GingerHead wrote:

@Desert Lily 

I so wish companys would stop putting fragrances in skincare! 

They're just potential irritants and some are extremely overwhelming (I'm talking to you Elemis!).

If I want to wear a fragrance I'll wear a fragrance don't need it in my face cream!

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@GingerHead , I use the Elemis Marine Cream and I don't notice much of a fragrance to that.  But, I recently bought a serum by them on sale at Nordstrom Rack and oh my!  It doesn't irritate my skin or anything, so I want to use it up but I won't be repurchasing it.  

[Judaline]

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@Desert Lily wrote:

@Wsmom  I buy beauty products that are hypoallergenic and for sensitive skin.

Companies that sell what I consider to be "clean" products are the ones that get my business. They don't opt for strange non-performing additives.

I always check the ingredients list in beauty products, and many of them have ingredients like talc, parabens, phthalates, etc. which aren't healthy. And, sometimes an ingredients list looks more like a witch's brew of odd items instead of scientifically proven contents by a laboratory that's not paid for endorsement.

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Yeah, like snail slime (mucus). They should be hiding that ingredient instead of advertising it. 

[San Antonio Gal]

The Clean Beauty market is unregulated and I view it more as a marketing term.  Any company can call their product clean.

I'm not a chemist or an expert on ingredients.  If a company claims their product is clean, I wouldn't know any better.

[Shanus]

@San Antonio Gal   I so agree about "Clean Beauty". Many come close like RMS, but Josie's products for example clain to be clean, but still may contain ingredients that irritate some people.

There is no regulation concerning ingredients or what criteria must be met to be "clean beauty". Some companies leave out parabens, fragrance and change to environmentally concious packaging and then call themselves clean.

It's a cwap shoot and checking ingredients is all we can do to determine what is good for our individual skin types. Personally I never bought into the clean beauty only purchases. I do hate cruelty to animals. but I think some companies (since not regulated) are not honest about this.

[Allthingsgirly67]

Also some companies add fragrance to mask the scent of other ingredients.

[SilleeMee]

A website that I visit quite often is INCIDecoder dot com. It's a site where you can get explanations for ingredients found in some products you might be using and it's written in easy-to-understand wording. You can look up individual ingredients or look for your product and it will show you what's in it, what it does and if it's good/bad for your skin.