The quality seals of cosmetics, skin health institutes such as Cosmetic Analysis from Germany, health professionals, and world organizations from different continents and countries, have been warning us for years of the indiscriminate use of certain ingredients, not recommended, in cosmetics, which are altering the balance and health of the skin of all of us.
Today the giants of the industry, who run the lobby of this lucrative business, worried about the growing boom in natural cosmetics, and fearing that their great empires will suffer the consequences of an increasingly sensitized and responsible population, are beginning to react. strongly, against natural cosmetics, against clinical studies that have been denouncing their cheapest and most profitable chemicals for years; As a consequence, they have stood up and launched a fierce battle in defense of their interests, before which the ordinary public is left defenseless.
That is why laws are now beginning to emerge in defense of parabens, in the countries most vulnerable to the power of this industry, something that many professionals are unable to understand. We are witnessing a proliferation of articles -in various networks, newspapers and blogs- that defend the world of chemistry and revile natural cosmetics, we even see all kinds of free APPs, of low quality and dubious ethics, that analyze the ingredients of cosmetics, and that they qualify as “low efficiency”To those cosmetics that are truly natural and responsible, while valuing as highly toxic chemical ingredients natural essential oils or extracts of great value for the skin,… In short, they are created to promote confusion and mistrust in the natural cosmetics and its ingredients.
This way of acting is something very common in the mercantile world in which we have had to live, and we have one more sample in what an article of September 18, 2015, collected in the Galician newspaper that warned us of the way to act as these powerful industry moguls, who ultimately run the world, and that article explained to us that:
"It is logical that France is the country that guides the ban on tanning beds. Already in 1998, and due to the lobby exercised by the leading makeup cosmetics company born there (L'Oréal), upon detecting a slight drop in sales where the use of sunbeds was growing, it legislated limiting their use and stopped in this country the rate of growth of this service, in favor of selling makeup that, on a white complexion, is essential."
Therefore, let's face it, we as the public have a very difficult time in this battle, if we want to preserve our health, since the practice of lobbying is only available to the most powerful, those with enough economic resources to dedicate people, means and time to try to influence the public powers and manipulate a defenseless population due to the lack of information.
If our Secretaries of State were obliged to make public all the contacts they have had when making legislation, for example, on parabens, and it was seen that they have met five times with presidents of multinational laboratories, colleges of pharmacists or other entities defending these assets, and none with the platform for those affected by skin diseases, skin health institutes or healthy and natural cosmetics organizations, the public would have elements of pressure to force that at least the arguments of all parties. But this is not the case, there does not exist and will not exist at the moment, a sufficient transparency that allows us to understand the “power game” that conditions our daily life and our cosmetics trade.
And faced with this, we can only try to raise awareness and raise awareness, learn and train, continue to spread and fight bravely, against the system, to defend our own health and that of our loved ones, in a world where it does not interest us to be heard. Many of us already know it, and those of us who have this information must continue to defend our health at all costs.
Because, it is OK to suffer every day more intolerances, more dermatitis, allergies or diseases of various kinds and seriousness.! It is already good to mistreat our skin to enrich an industry that does not care about us!
It is already good to suffocate our skin and generate all kinds of associated problems, which curiously encourage us to have to invest even more in specific drugs and cosmetics for those ailments generated!
Now it is OK! Let our skin breathe, we are going to nourish it, hydrate it and pamper it as it deserves.
Let us be aware that, if we apply a cosmetic product with plastic ingredients such as paraffin, a very thin layer is formed on the skin on the surface that clogs the pores, preventing perspiration and the penetration of nutrients. And as a consequence, what appears to be smooth and hydrated skin is nothing more than the visual effect produced by that plastic sheet that is commonly known as MASK EFFECT.
This plastic barrier created between the dermis and the exterior prevents respiration and the metabolic and excretory function of the skin, which causes the accumulation of toxins. Thus, the pores become clogged and the hydrolipidic balance of the skin is altered and when we remove the product there is a rebound effect of dryness as they are eliminated, since liquid paraffins, as they are not biodegradable, can only be removed from the skin by washes and mechanical dragging.
Do not be fooled! The use of cosmetic products made from silicone and paraffin has a very negative effect, especially for oily skin, because this suffocating effect generates infections and impurities, while in dry skin it ends up worsening the formation of wrinkles.
Paraffin is a mineral oil refined from petroleum, a kind of plastic wax that appears in the official list of ingredients with the names of Petrolatum o Paraffinum. It is important that we know that the ingredients of the cosmetics appear on the labeling ordered from highest to lowest. That is, the first ingredient on the list will be the one with the highest percentage in the formula of that cosmetic. So if we read Liquid paraffin In a cosmetic, it is certain that it will negatively affect our skin, but if it also appears in the first places of the formula, it is evident that practically everything that cosmetic contains is a plastic substance that will affect our skin very negatively.
In the case of silicones, the names that you will see in the formulas will be for example: Dimethicone, Dimethiconol, Siloxane, Syclohexasiloxane, Dimethicone copolyol, Cetyl dimethicone, Phenyl trimethicone. Cyclomethicone, Cyclopentasiloxane or, Amodimethicone.
In short, everything that sounds like "Dimethicone" tells you that the cosmetic seeks to generate in you a false effect of softness and comfort of the skin, using plastic substances placed on the surface of your face that will suffocate it but the sensation will deceive you that you perceive from them.
Therefore Let's take care of our skin and save it from being suffocated! It is in our hands, we just have to pay a little attention to the ingredients of our cosmetics.
