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In the cosmetic industry, every company buys their ingredients from the same manufacturers at the same prices. These ingredients are given unique scientific registered names upon their discovery and these names known as INCI names (International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients) must be printed in the ingredient lists on all packaging.
Cosmetic companies buy these ingredients and if they are big companies with lots of money they take these ingredients back to their own laboratories or if they are smaller companies, they use outsource laboratories to manufacture their skin care on their behalf.
Cosmetic companies are then able to give these same ingredients fancy registered names. So the same ingredient may be used by hundreds of different cosmetic companies but with a different name. Its only when you check the ingredient list that you will see it's all the same ingredients. When cosmetic companies buy these ingredients they are also given strict instructions as to what percentage of these ingredients need to be used in a formulation to make sure the ingredients can deliver the results they promise.
What you may not know is that once these ingredients are bought from the manufacturers; there is no controlling or governing body which ensures that the cosmetic companies actually use the recommended percentage of ingredients in their formulations.
We often pay far too much for a product which only has a drop of active ingredients in it. Not using the recommended percentage of active ingredients will not give you the results cosmetic companies advertise on their packaging-this is called "label dressing".
As long as it has a drop of the ingredients somewhere in the formula cosmetic companies can use the ingredient claims in marketing and advertising, and there is nobody controlling these claims.
Never buy skin care products in tubs, jars, tubes or pump bottles. Active ingredients need to be kept away from air and light. Once the container is opened air contact automatically generates microbial contamination of the product and causes oxidation of its active ingredients reducing their effectiveness.
Airless Packaging ensures complete sealing of the package preventing air from entering. I mean if all cosmetic companies buy their ingredients from the same place at the same price, and they take so much care with the formulation, plus they use the recommended dosage, knowing how expensive all this is-why would they then take this precious expensive product and then package it in something that won't preserve it? Makes you think doesn't it? Makes you wonder how much of the good stuff is really in there?
Makes you wonder if they truly are giving you what is written in the marketing jargon......
IT IS WORTH INVESTING IN GOOD COSMECUTICLE SKIN CARE
Without getting too technical, ingredients need to be able to penetrate to where it is needed in the skin for you to see results (Dermis where the fibroblasts, collagen and elastin fibres are). Your skin consists of many layers and through these layers there are gaps which allow the molecules of active ingredients to travel down into the deeper layers of the skin.
These gaps are about 600mm in size but most skincare molecules are 1200nm in size, so double the size of what it needs to be to get through the gaps and into the deeper layers of the skin. The 2nd problem you have is that the skin is a lipid (oily) structure and most cosmetics use water based ingredients, and we all know water does not penetrate through oil. So not only do you have a problem whereby the molecules are too big but they are also water based. And therefore most skin care just sits at the top of the skin and does nothing, except give a bit of hydration to the dead top layers-which makes you think your skin looks better-but actually it's done nothing for the truly anti-ageing needs of the skin.
Cosmetic companies buy these ingredients and if they are big companies with lots of money they take these ingredients back to their own laboratories or if they are smaller companies, they use outsource laboratories to manufacture their skin care on their behalf.
Cosmetic companies are then able to give these same ingredients fancy registered names. So the same ingredient may be used by hundreds of different cosmetic companies but with a different name. Its only when you check the ingredient list that you will see it's all the same ingredients. When cosmetic companies buy these ingredients they are also given strict instructions as to what percentage of these ingredients need to be used in a formulation to make sure the ingredients can deliver the results they promise.
What you may not know is that once these ingredients are bought from the manufacturers; there is no controlling or governing body which ensures that the cosmetic companies actually use the recommended percentage of ingredients in their formulations.
We often pay far too much for a product which only has a drop of active ingredients in it. Not using the recommended percentage of active ingredients will not give you the results cosmetic companies advertise on their packaging-this is called "label dressing".
As long as it has a drop of the ingredients somewhere in the formula cosmetic companies can use the ingredient claims in marketing and advertising, and there is nobody controlling these claims.
Never buy skin care products in tubs, jars, tubes or pump bottles. Active ingredients need to be kept away from air and light. Once the container is opened air contact automatically generates microbial contamination of the product and causes oxidation of its active ingredients reducing their effectiveness.
Airless Packaging ensures complete sealing of the package preventing air from entering. I mean if all cosmetic companies buy their ingredients from the same place at the same price, and they take so much care with the formulation, plus they use the recommended dosage, knowing how expensive all this is-why would they then take this precious expensive product and then package it in something that won't preserve it? Makes you think doesn't it? Makes you wonder how much of the good stuff is really in there?
Makes you wonder if they truly are giving you what is written in the marketing jargon......
IT IS WORTH INVESTING IN GOOD COSMECUTICLE SKIN CARE
Without getting too technical, ingredients need to be able to penetrate to where it is needed in the skin for you to see results (Dermis where the fibroblasts, collagen and elastin fibres are). Your skin consists of many layers and through these layers there are gaps which allow the molecules of active ingredients to travel down into the deeper layers of the skin.
These gaps are about 600mm in size but most skincare molecules are 1200nm in size, so double the size of what it needs to be to get through the gaps and into the deeper layers of the skin. The 2nd problem you have is that the skin is a lipid (oily) structure and most cosmetics use water based ingredients, and we all know water does not penetrate through oil. So not only do you have a problem whereby the molecules are too big but they are also water based. And therefore most skin care just sits at the top of the skin and does nothing, except give a bit of hydration to the dead top layers-which makes you think your skin looks better-but actually it's done nothing for the truly anti-ageing needs of the skin.
