The Secret to Cosmetics

If you are anything like me, you have drawers and bagfuls of cosmetics lying around your house. We purchase these beauty products in the hopes of enhancing our looks and improving our skin care beauty. But, do you know the secret to buying the right cosmetics, or what ingredients are in them? Ya, me either, but there are some important things we should all know about our beauty products.

The first potential problem facing our skin care beauty is allergic reactions. As my doctor once told me, “you don’t know you have an allergy, until you have a reaction.” You don’t want to discover your allergic to your cosmetics by having it break out in hives. That being said, you should know that natural doesn’t always mean non-allergic. Beauty products that contain rosemary, tea tree oil, lavender and chamomile can irritate your skin and cause a reaction.

You also want to be very careful, when sampling cosmetics at your local makeup counter. Make sure you apply the beauty products with a disposable applicator. This will help reduce the risk of contamination. You don’t want to threaten your skin care beauty by rubbing somebody else’s germs all over your face. While we’re at it, don’t share makeup with your friends either. This is a common occurrence, among the younger set. That’s why you see so many teenagers running around with pinkeye.

Be careful when you are looking for all natural cosmetic skin care beauty products. Just because they say they are all natural doesn’t mean they are. In fact, “the botanical or plant sounding components that are in beauty products labeled “natural” are usually synthesized in a laboratory.” I’m not really sure how they get away with this, but they do. Besides, all natural isn’t always better for you. I mean there is a reason they started putting chemicals into products in the first place.

Buying cosmetic and beauty products should be fun. Breaking out in skin irritations does nothing to enhance our skin care beauty, so be careful and diligent and you can buy products that will make you glow.