There are hundreds or perhaps even thousands of anti ageing products like anti aging moisturizers and anti wrinkle creams on the market and sadly most of them don’t work very well. However there is a more serious risk, lots of them contain chemical ingredients that could damage your health. A good example is a chemical ingredient called petrolatum.

You might know petrolatum as Vaseline. In fact Vasaeline is pure petrolatum. Other names for it are white petrolatum, petroleum jelly, petroleum wax or white petroleum or other names. Petrolatum comes from the distillation of crude oil and is what is known as a petrochemical byproduct.

The Cosmetic Safety Database is an organisation tasked with examining many of the ingredients found in our cosmetics, skin care and anti aging products and it describes petrolatum has being linked to cancer as well as being linked to non reproductive toxicity and product contamination. It is the product contamination that is extremely worrying. In various manufacturing processes petrolatum can be contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs. These are seriously worrying, highly toxic and linked to cancer.

There’s many companies making anti aging products such as anti wrinkle creams which do not test for the presence of PAHs in their products and do not list them on the label.

So why is petrolatum used in so many skin care products and anti aging products such as anti wrinkle creams and anti aging moisturizers? There is one simple answer. It’s because petrolatum is incredibly cheap. The cheaper the ingredients you can find for the products the more profit you make. The FDA is not required to test for petrolatum or any other dangerous ingredients such as PAHs and so, because they can, the anti aging companies use them in their products.

There are excellent alternatives available. Natural ingredients that are known to be effective at improving skin health and which are also very safe but they are much more expensive and so are rarely used. Chemical ingredients are usually much cheaper.

But there are excellent natural skin care products such as anti wrinkle creams and anti aging moisturizers that do use these ingredients. These products are highly effective however are much more expensive to manufacture and therefore, if the companies that make them work to advertise them, they would be far too expensive and uncompetitive for you to buy.

The small skin care companies that produce these products cannot advertise them for this reason and so they are not commonly known despite the fact that they are extremely high quality products. For this reason it’s unlikely that you’ve even heard of them.

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’re interested in safe and effective anti wrinkle creams and natural skin care products visit my website to find out who makes them.

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