Ingredient analysis of cosmetics (Is the analysis of cosmetic ingredients reliable?)
Before entering the main topic, Xiao Mo asked the babies a question.
Did you read the ingredient list carefully before choosing cosmetics?
If you have this habit, you must stick to it.
If not, then start learning to read this article.
Because it really matters
Why care about cosmetic ingredient lists?
If you don’t want to be fooled into buying a bunch of three-no products, then you have to learn! Yes! recognize! Safety. Protect! skin! watch!
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So someone has to ask, why do you need to look at the ingredient list of skin care products?
The reason is simple. In recent years, many skin care products have been poisoned, and there are also many skin care product poisoning incidents. Knowing the ingredients is essential.
In addition, some people may have allergic reactions to certain ingredients, so be sure to pay attention to the ingredient list before buying. Finally, cosmetics with different functions must contain corresponding ingredients that can produce effects, such as products that do not contain whitening ingredients. How can it be considered a whitening product? So it depends on whether there are ingredients with corresponding functions in the ingredient list.
Therefore, only by knowing the ingredients of the products of Youyou.com, can you know whether the products you use are beneficial to skin health and whether the effect will be good.
Before the start! Let me explain first: the ingredient list of skin care products is sorted by content. The higher the ingredient content, the higher the concentration! Conversely, the lower. However, if the concentration of the ingredients is below the 2/1 dividing line, one of them can be randomly arranged in order; secondly, no matter how expensive the ingredients are, they are all negligible chicken ribs and have little effect on improving the skin.
There are too many ingredients in that kind of cosmetics, and some people will find out ingredients that are harmful to the skin. But is it really “harmful”?
Preservation The agent is also absorbed by the skin.
As the most commonly used ingredient in cosmetics, preservatives play a very important role in products. They can effectively extend the shelf life of cosmetics and avoid contamination of the contents during use.
The molecules of preservatives are very small, which means that they will not fail when skin care products are applied, but will be absorbed by the skin.
But some people deliberately exaggerate the harm of preservatives, saying that adding preservatives may cause contact dermatitis, eczema, damage the stratum corneum, accelerate pigmentation, accelerate cell aging, and cause skin sensitivity.
Of course preservatives are also harmful! But it does us more good than harm. Long-term use of products containing a large amount of preservatives is potentially harmful to the skin, especially paraben preservatives, which will affect the health of the skin barrier, loosen the structure of keratinocytes, and cause rough and sensitive skin.
Don’t worry too much, though. Mature brands will first consider the safety of the product, and then the efficacy. Therefore, as long as you buy high-quality cosmetics from regular channels, you can largely avoid skin problems caused by adding preservatives. The preservatives used in these products are all safe. Even in the presence of paraben preservatives, the added concentration will be within the standard range to ensure safe use.
Silicone oil
Skin care products made of silicone oil can not only moisturize the skin to form a layer of acid, alkali, salt and organic solvents The protective coating can also protect the normal breathing of the skin and treat dermatitis and eczema.
But silicone oil is prone to acne, and some people everywhere preach that silicon-containing products are not available. I don’t know that the quality of the current silicone oil products is no longer good for acne.
Mineral Oil
Mineral oil has been used as a moisturizer in cosmetics for hundreds of years. But in recent years, whenever you see cosmetics with mineral oil added, you will be complained by young people, and it will be regarded as a symbol of low-end products, making you feel that the mineral oil has changed color. Should mineral oil complete its mission and withdraw from the stage of history?
Mineral oil is actually a general term for a class of substances extracted from petroleum, including white oil (also called light oil, liquid paraffin, etc.) , Vaseline, paraffin, etc. It has several outstanding advantages, so it is widely used in skin care products. The famous Lamer sea blue mystery and Sysley all-purpose lotion contain such ingredients. It has the advantages of stability, suppleness, unparalleled sealing and non-sensitization.
[Disadvantages of mineral oil] Good sealing, airtight, easy to cause pore blockage. The physiological functions of young people are vigorous, and the secretion of sebum and sweat is more, and the sebum and sweat are not easy to be discharged from the pores. If you use lotions and creams with too much mineral oil, it will feel stuffy and airtight, which will cause many skin problems, such as acne, acne, blackheads, and dark spots. So the benefits of mineral oil become disadvantages when it comes to youthful skin.
There is no problem with oily oil as a moisturizer for cosmetics. It mainly depends on its purity and who added the products he uses.
Hormones
When hormones are used in cosmetics, it can be said that the effect is immediate. Be careful if the effect of whitening, acne, freckle, and red bloodshot products is particularly obvious.
Long-term use of hormone-containing cosmetics can cause telangiectasia, atrophy, and even hairy, dermatitis and other symptoms. It will get you hooked. Once the skin is not used, the condition will get worse.
Heavy metals such as mercury, lead, and arsenic.
The real culprits of cosmetic poisoning are heavy metals such as mercury, lead, and arsenic. The most important reason is excessive heavy metals.
Perfume
Many people like the scent of cosmetics. In fact, spices are also the culprit of skin damage, which may cause health problems such as light sensitivity and contact dermatitis.
The “chromium” and “neodymium” contained in spices are prohibited elements. If the patient with weak skin resistance uses it, the skin will have redness and burning sensation, or the skin will be sensitive and red, and in severe cases it will cause dermatitis. Chromium is a skin allergen that can cause atopic dermatitis or eczema. The course of the disease is long, but it does not heal for a long time. Neodymium is very toxic to the eyes and mucous membranes and moderately toxic to the skin. Inhalation can also cause pulmonary embolism and liver damage.
Currently some “fragrance-free” skin care products on the market also have a certain fragrance, which is often the smell of plant ingredients or added essential oil ingredients. However, this does not mean that such products are safer, as some plant extracts or essential oils may also cause sensitivity to sensitive skin.
Whatever “water” is, it is water.
In order to make their products look more luxurious, many skin care products will pretend to be mysterious and say what deep sea water and mineral water they have added. In fact, the essence is water, which hardly improves the skin.
Don’t worry too much about solvents.
Solvents (such as butylene glycol, glycerin) and other ingredients have no effect on improving the skin, but Youyou Resource Network plays an auxiliary role in moisturizing. But it won’t hurt the skin.
Don’t blindly believe in hyaluronic acid.
For girls with dry skin, seeing the ingredients of hyaluronic acid is like grabbing a life-saving straw. In fact, the effect of hyaluronic acid is very limited. In fact, it can only have a little effect on the surface of the skin. Can’t really fix skin problems. unless deep into the skin.
Alcohol is not as spicy as it is terrible.
One of the many girls who come into contact with ingredients will definitely drink “ethanol”. In fact, alcohol is not so heinous. Alcohol is a good solvent. Some water-insoluble ingredients can be fully dissolved with the help of alcohol, as long as the solubility is appropriate, it will not cause damage to the skin. It can also restrain inflammation and improve the penetration effect of skin care products.
Having said so much, do you guys know a little bit?
Now many platforms sell their own products, analyze and comment on other people’s products. In particular, I read an article saying that a product was blacked out because it contained ethanol, which is ridiculous.
In fact, to put it bluntly, any so-called analysis and comments at present are good or bad comments without talking about quantity. I think: Pure Youyou Resource Network selling its own products is a kind of competitive behavior for the purpose of profit. What is the starting point of blacking others?
Therefore, there are some marked ingredients in the product, so don’t worry about whether the relevant testing department is legal or not, so some quick-talking authors will use the ingredients to talk about things and attack some products, and his own purpose is to say what he sells Better yet, let the viewer buy his own product, thereby making money from sales and marketing.