I think you get what you pay for to a certain extent. Heres some food for thought:
Most skin care lines are loaded with fillers, usually animal by products and petro chemical duraritves. These are not good for you but 98% on the market is made of them. It is a cheap way to fill the bottle.
If it is a botanically based product, they can claim to have aloe and certain ingredients in it if they put any part of the plant in it. The active part is the part you need to get the effect. It is the most expensive part of the plant. You need to be sure it is the active part.
Another thing is:
If you are paying $20 a month to two months for a product then you might have been able to get a better product for $40 that last 6-8 months.
Ok...I hope this helps...
Ann Phelps
PS...I learned from a doctor with no connection to skin care that when some chemicals are mixed you can get a chemical reaction of burning, break out, ect..just as in nature you can also get the same reaction from mixing the wrong botanicals (Think volcano.). I do not think mixing lines is really safe, but I have been guilty of it too
Ok, here is an article that better explains animal by products aka fillers...
Does anyone know what a rendering plant is? There is an excerpt from a book that explains it very well.
Animal By-Products
We hear this catch phrase all the time "animal by-products" but who really knows what they are and where they come from? It is a nasty little secret that the cosmetic companies DON'T want you to know. I recently found out myself when I read the book, Mad Cowboy, by Howard F. Lyman. In his book he writes:
"I am a forth generation dairy farmer and cattle rancher. I grew up on a dairy farm in Montana, and I ran a feedlot operation there for twenty years. I know first-hand how cattle are raised and how meat is produced in this country.
When a cow is slaughtered, about half of it by weight is not eaten by humans; this includes the intestines and their contents, the head, the hooves, the horns, as well as bones and blood. These are dumped into giant grinders at rendering plants, as well as the entire bodies of cows and other farm animals known to be diseased.
There is simply no such thing in America as an animal too ravaged by disease, too cancerous, or too putrid to be welcomed by the all-embracing arms of the renderer.
Another staple of the renderer’s diet, in addition to farm animals, is euthanized pets – the six or seven million dogs and cats that are killed in animal shelters every year. Added to the blend are the euthanized catch of animal control agencies, and road-kill. (Road kill is not collected daily, so in the summer, the better road kill crews generally smell it before they can see it…)When this gruesome mix is ground and steam-cooked, the lighter, fatty material floating to the top gets refined for use in such products as cosmetics, lubricants, soaps, candles, and waxes.â€
…and that my friends, is the cold, hard truth about where the “animal by-products†come from that the cosmetic industry tries to pawn off onto the American public.â€
You can learn much more from the mentioned book, or simply visit the internet and do a little research on rendering plants. This information is provided as an educational tool.
(I also seen it first hand..I worked at a chicken factory when I was a teen and my mom worked in a rendering plant. It was nasty. Also my daughter had a nasty growth when she was little. Doctor removed it said it was not cancerous but probably came from something in her skin care. I then starting being careful of what I put on her but had no idea what he meant until years later.)
Ann Phelps
