Would it surprise you to know that the best facial moisturizer is not actually a moisturizer at all?
But lets look first at what a moisturizer is and what it should do for your skin.
A moisturizer is designed to improve the hydration in your skin. Or in other words it helps the skin keep moisture in the skin cells. And if the skin dries out it becomes less supple, it looks and feels drier. And it can be more prone to skin damage.
Skin that is well moisturized is more healthy than skin that is not well moisturized, and it will also protect itself better
And many different moisturizers help protect the skin in different ways, for example by including a sunscreen.
But unfortunately there are moisturizers on the market that contain ingredients that can be suspect to your health and even dangerous.
For example you ought to avoid moisturizers that contain mineral oil. And many do. Why? because mineral oil coats your skin in oil and this can cause skin problems itself, like exacerbating acne problems.
And I also believe that you shouldn’t use a moisturizer with a sunscreen in it either. Yes it is vital to protect your skin from the effects of sunburn, but there are some ingredients in sunscreens that some believe can cause cancer. Now if you use your moisturizer every single day as you should you are putting on a suspect sunscreen every day when it’s unlikely that you could possibly need a sunscreen every day.
So one of the most important things that you can do when looking to find the best facial moisturizer is to look at the ingredients. There are many skin care products that can contain some extremely nasty ingredients that can actually cause skin reactions and allergies.
So choosing the wrong facial moisturizer can in fact do more damage to your skin than good.
So, I’ve talked a little about facial moisturizers in general, lets look to see what’s the best facial moisturizer.
I consider the best facial moisturizer to be the natural skin care products from a small niche skin care company that you probably have never heard of. Ill explain why.
This small company makes a range of skin care and anti aging products that are designed to promote overall skin health, rather than just moisturizing, because moisturizing is only a small part of skin care and skin health. But they don’t actually make a moisturizer, what they do is add ingredients to their products that mean that their products in general moisturize better than any others.
They don’t use mineral oil or a sunscreen for the reasons I’ve already talked about and they add ingredients to their skin care products that moisturize extremely well.
Ingredients such as Jojoba Oil. Jojoba Oil is an excellent natural oil and helps protect the skin from moisture loss by forming a layer on the skin to do so, and it is also absorbed into the skin cells thereby softening the skin. It is entirely non allergenic, (as are all the ingredients they use) and it is good for all skin types.
And ingredients like this are healthy for all skin types so this small company doesn’t make products that differentiate between skin type, they don’t need to.
And vitamin B5. This also has moisturizing properties but it also helps repair skin damage and adds some natural sun protection.
Or sorbitol, which can be found in grapes and berries and seaweeds and others, and helps the skin retain it’s moisture as well. And Capuacu oil from the seeds of the Capuacu tree which helps the skin retain moisture and smooths the skin.
There’s more, but I hope you get the idea. There are natural skin care products that work extremely well for overall skin health, but which also contain ingredients that moisturize extremely successfully as a part of a complete skin health routine.
So there you have it. A range of natural skin care products are in fact the best facial moisturizer you can get. They promote optimum skin health, but along the way they moisturize extremely well because that is an important part of overall skin health. For all skin types.
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