Skin Care Product ReviewsBest Skin Care Products for Sensitive SkinMy Sensitive Skin Care product reviews is a new section of our site which was originally intended to review a number of different hypoallergenic product lines. A note from Mashubi - The products mentioned here are products I use myself and am proud to recommend. If you purchase through the links on our site, I receive a small commission which helps me to maintain this site. For more information please read our Advertising Disclosure Since that original great idea, I've learned that almost NONE of the currently available hypoallergenic products offer what I am looking for! Instead of using my time searching for products that simply don't exist yet, I decided to review individual products within the product lines that I have found! Please scroll down to the bottom to read the skin care reviews I've done so far. There aren't too many yet, but I will be doing more. I alos have created a place where you too can leave your own product reviews! Together we can find products that will work for sensitive skin AND be chemically safe an non toxic! I use ten My Sensitive Skin Care Standards of Excellence criteria to judge the performance of hypoallergenic products in my sensitive skin care reviews. These are intended to help you to minimize the use of skin care ingredients that are most likely to cause inflammation on your skin or in your body. My Sensitive Skin Care Product Reviews Standard of Excellence #1 -- Full Disclosure of Product IngredientsI can't tell you how many times I've searched on the internet for sensitive skin products and found beautiful web stores with products that look great and claim to have no irritating ingredients, but they don't include their product ingredients! When you have sensitive skin, it is essential that you be able to look through the list of product ingredients to be able to know what is in the skin care products you are putting on your body. My Sensitive Skin Care Product Reviews Standard of Excellence #2 -- Use Safe Cosmetic IngredientsMore and more research is being done on cosmetic ingredients to see which are safe, and which cause irritation or which may cause harmful side effects. To learn more about this, please visit our Safe Cosmetics Guide. In order to avoid irritating your sensitive skin, we recommend that you choose sensitive skin care products that are free from the following ingredients:
I've included a bit more information about some of these ingredients in our next few Standards of Excellence, because they are especially important for sensitive skin. My Sensitive Skin Care Product Reviews Standard of Excellence #3 -- No Added FragranceFragrance is one of the top five allergens for people with sensitive skin. Research has shown a link between artificial fragrances and allergies, impairment of the immune system, and neurotoxicity and harm to the brain and nervous system. The other big problem with fragrances is that they sometimes contain dozens or even hundreds of chemicals, none of which are required to be listed on the labels of your personal care and skin care product labels. My Sensitive Skin Care Product Reviews Standard of Excellence #4 -- No Petroleum by-productsThese include mineral oil and petroleum jelly. Mineral oil has been linked to the development of cancer, allergies, and immune system impairment. Petroleum by products are generally created in the same facilities that manufacture oil and gasoline, and are often contaminated with cancer causing substances such as PAHS. Petroleum products have been linked to toxicity in the organ systems of the body, and these same contaminants are also found in tap water, food, and other consumer products. Petroleum jelly does not break down in your body or in the environment and has been shown to persist for many years after your initial exposure. A small percentage of people have found that petrolatum discolors their skin. There are gaps in the data available for its effect on the body and it has not been assessed for safety in cosmetics. Before I knew any of this, I was using a calendula ointment that had a petroleum jelly base for a persistent dermatitis on my hand. Not only didn't it work, but the problem simply remained on my hand for over a year! Finally I stopped the cream and my hand is finally healing. My Sensitive Skin Care Product Reviews Standard of Excellence #5 -- Free of BotanicalsSome people with sensitive skin find their skin easily erupts or inflames in response to even natural substances like herbs and essential oils. For some people with sensitive skin, ground nut or tree nut derived natural oils can cause allergies as well. Some people develop acne after using products with olive oil. Even aloe vera, which has anti-inflammatory properties, can cause severe itching for some people! This can be a real problem if you are a lover of organic skin care products, which often use complex formulations of many different herbs and essential oils. If you have sensitive skin, it may take you some detective work to figure out what is causing your skin problems. It could be simply one ingredient in a skin care formulation that triggers a skin eruption. For this reason, I recommend that you use sensitive skin products that use simple formulations without a long list of ingredients, and that do not contain herbs, botanicals or essential oils. My Sensitive Skin Care Product Reviews Standard of Excellence #6 -- Free of Animal by-ProductsSome animal byproducts like lanolin can clog the pores of the skin and cause allergic reactions. Tallow which is made from rendered beef fat may cause eczema and blackheads. Other ingredients derived from tallow include Quaternium-18 and Quaternium-83. PEG-50 Tallow Amide and PEG-2 Tallow Amine and PEG-8 Hydrogenated Tallow Amine are more hazardous forms of tallow that present other potential health risks as well. My Sensitive Skin Care Product Reviews Standard of Excellence #7 -- Noticeable ResultsOne of the real problems with having sensitive skin is that most of the good quality products that would actually make you look and feel your best cause your skin to break out!! Then you try sensitive skin products and if you are lucky to find one that works for your skin, you are happy to not have a red and swollen face, but you don't really notice any benefits! This gets to be an even bigger problem if you are getting older like me. I am starting to see wrinkles showing up on my skin, and it's really difficult to find something that actually works to make your skin look, well, less OLD! :-) Now I am not a big fan of excessive vanity, but I do believe that even people with sensitive skin deserve to look and feel their best! I had this problem for years with my hair. The only shampoos that made my hair look good had fragrance, which made me feel cough and feel sick. I think I must have tried every fragrance free shampoo on the market! I have thin, fine, limp blonde hair, and if I don't wash it every day, it turns greasy and brown. All the fragrance free shampoos made my hair look thin, limp, dull and brown! :( I managed to look semi-alright with one brand, but it turned out to have Sodium Lauryl Sulfate and my skin started breaking out. Finally I discovered a hypoallergenic shampoo with no added fragrance which FINALLY did the trick for me. It made a stunning difference. My hair is now clean, soft and shiny, without being greasy! See My Before and After Photos My Sensitive Skin Care Product Reviews Standard of Excellence #8 -- Affordable for the Average PersonSo many skin care products are really overpriced! Paying $79 for a half ounce jar of wrinkle treatment is just crazy in my opinion. This may work if you are rich, but for the rest of us, we have more important things to think about like food, clothing, and paying the rent. Some skin care companies really overcharge because they have to spend so much on advertising. Others may be expensive because they use higher quality ingredients, but it is difficult to know for real whether the product is really worth the price. For this reason we prefer products that are reasonably priced so that you don't need to re-mortgage your house to purchase them! I always recommend ONLY buying sensitive skin products that have a money back guarantee, so that if they don't work for you, you can get your money back. My Sensitive Skin Care Product Reviews Standard of Excellence #9 -- Earth FriendlyOur beautiful planet is in great need of loving care, attention and help to continue to sustain herself in these difficult times. We human beings have polluted the Earth for so long, and now it's time we paid attention and did the right thing, so that we can all continue to live together for many generations to come. The dollars you spend on your sensitive skin care products do matter, as they support companies and people. Vote with your dollars! I prefer whenever possible to support companies that use environmentally friendly ingredients in their products and packaging, and that demonstrate consciousness about the environmental impact of their work. My Sensitive Skin Care Product Reviews Standard of Excellence #10 -- Cruelty FreeWe recommend sensitive skin products that are not tested on animals. In my opinion there is no need for this kind of cruelty in today's world.
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