Did you know that when the Daily Telegraph interviewed 2,000 women in the UK, they fund that up to a third of them had caught their boyfriends using their skin care accessories and products.
They ranged from tweezers to moisturizers.
Nobody admitted to using their nightcream but I bet some of them do! But in this metrosexual world, this is hardly relevant or even worth mentioning.
The real issue is whether we care or have the time to find out what is in those supposedly best nightcreams or the cheaper over the counter product.
We can judge a nightcream on safety, effectiveness and of course value for money.
Safety should be our major concern.
The Compact For Safe Cosmetics has now got several nutraceutical companies signed up to support its campaign.
A quick glance at the label on the expensive product with the glowing testimonials might actually shock you.
If you see ingredients like alcohols which can actually dry out your skin, steer clear.
Fragrances or 'parfum' as they are so trendily listed, are an unknown quantity and may contain a host of unlisted synthethic chemicals.
That is just to give the product a nice smell but it may well be masking the smell of something else! Another ingredient that should not be on the label of your nightcream is paraffin wax which is a mineral oil and that can actually dry out the skin.
We are supposed to be moisturizing it - another example of the cure being worse than the disease.
Parabens with scientific sounding names may also be there but they should not be.
They are suspected of being carcinogens.
They will be listed as:- methylparaben, butylparaben and ethylparaben.
What ingredients SHOULD be in the nightcream? Skin friendly ingredients are often said to be the same as what we would eat.
After all our skin absorbs elements which pass into the bloodstream which is why we have to be cautious.
The best ingredients are those such as shea butter, avocado oil, olive oil, babassu wax, manuka homey, Japanese sea kelp and Vitamin E.
All these are powerful antioxidants.
A vital ingredient for skincare is a protein known as keratin.
How can we apply this to the skin? It obviously involves some complicated processing and one of these is where it is extracted from animal products such as hooves or feathers.
Not ideal for our skin.
But a recent breakthrough has enabled a company to actually convert the keratin into a more skin friendly emulsion which can actually help to regenerate the collagen and elastin, the essential building blocks for our skin.
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