Comments on: 7 Reasons There Aren’t More Preservative Free Cosmetics

By: Esthetician

Esthetician — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:29:52 +0000

I am proud to say I make natural cosmetics and hope to soon produce natural skin care as well as a licensed Esthetician, and while I enjoyed the article, I feel it is necessary to point out a couple things. Not all preservatives or parabens are bad. Although most of what is produced in today’s market is used because it is easier to synthesize rather than find alternatives, there are preservatives and parabens that are natural and can be used quite effectively. Do your research and you can easily figure out which is which. Secondly, just because a product has preservatives, anti-microbials, or any other safety measure does not guarantee a bacteria or germ free product. Especially where cosmetics and skin care products are concerned. If you apply your high end powder with the best brush out there, you can still end up with a case of something or other. If that brush is not properly cared for, you might as well bathe in sewer water. If this were not the case, no one would suffer from bouts of acne( not hormonally caused mind you), or get a type of Herpe virus in the eye. And for the record yes, it can happen. I am very particular about what goes into my products but I also use standard products on myself and others when the need arises. I don’t want to be lumped in with one group or another lol.

By: Preservative cosmetic | Ajaygoud

Preservative cosmetic | Ajaygoud — Mon, 30 May 2011 18:38:32 +0000

[...] 7 Reasons There Aren’t More Preservative Free CosmeticsYou can feel confident that if you open them up tomorrow you won’t get Tetanus or Gangrene. A preservative-free cosmetic won’t last more than a couple of weeks. It’ll spoil just about as fast as milk and become dangerous. [...]

By: Mike Fessler

Mike Fessler — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:50:26 +0000

Herbalix Restoratives has a biodynamic preservative that passed the USP 29,NF, 2006 acceptance criteria for Category 2 Products(Topically used, aqueous based products):the test can be viewed on the Herbalix website. It is trademarked and only available in products made by Herbalix. Herbalix percentage reduction for 28 days was 99.99 in effectiveness against 5 microorganism by a FDA approved laboratory. It is the first of it’s kind.

By: Pinky

Pinky — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:39:25 +0000

There are a lot of preservatives that are natural and can be used in your skin care products without any harm being caused.

What we eat is mostly what we apply to our skin. If you can easily use palmoil,coconutoil,cocoabutter,oliveoil,almondoil,honey in your food and still keep them in your containers for your skin why do you worry about extra additives in your body cream or cooking. Even fragrances are natural plant oils

These oils are preservatives and even honey are all preservatives in themselves.

Just keep them properly. Like you will have a label indicating that you KEEP IN A COOL DRY PLACE. Whether it is preserved artificially or naturally. If you keep your oils under the sun or in heat, what do you expect. You automatically will not do that. Why would you even want to use water mixed with oil on your skin. After taking a shower and wiping off the water, you need some oils to protect your skin from damaging, by exposing it direcly to sunlight and dangerous fumes in the air.

You can not keep a dry skin to also wear off your skin and make it look tired. You need to protect it. In the olden days our forefathers never used artificial chemicals, so why now.

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:49:54 +0000

An excellent article and a lively discussion.

Can I just make one minor point about people who formulate natural cosmetics. Here in the UK they are the same people who formulate the main stream products. I don’t know how things are in the US, but if they are that different I would be surprised.

The natural cosmetic companies are sometimes set up by people who have a genuine desire to make the world a better place, but in my experience they are usually set up by business people who have spotted a market opportunity.

In either case, they have to find someone who knows how to make the products for them. I spend about half my time formulating natural products and I am very happy to do so. It is nice to have a new challenge and it gives consumers another choice.

The idea that natural products are safer to use than conventional ones is just silly. You can prove this to yourself with Google and a bit of patience if you want. (I recommend starting with the EWG’s cosmetic database and seeing if the ratings contained in it make any sense at all – that will give you a good idea of how rubbish the case against cosmetics being safe is.)

But if you don’t have the time to do that just ask yourself a simple common sense question. Why on Eath would a formulator put an unsafe product out?