 Organic body care products are very popular today
Added: 10/31/2005 |
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Cosmetics, general term applied to all preparations used externally to condition and beautify the body, by cleaning, colouring, softening, or protecting the skin, hair, nails, lips, or eyes. Lot of people nowdays are buying natural health cosmetics and organic body care products. People choose organic creams and organic oils to take care of their skin. And the number of manufacturers that offer products of that kind is increasing.
The earliest known cosmetics come from the 1st Dynasty of Egypt (about 3100-2907 BC). Tombs of this era have yielded unguent jars, and from remains of later periods it is evident that the unguents were scented. Such organic body care, as well as perfumed organic oils, organic creams were extensively used by both men and women to keep the skin supple and unwrinkled in the dry heat of Egypt. Egyptian women also developed the art of decorating the eyes by applying dark green colour to the lower lid and by blackening the lashes and the upper lid with kohl, a preparation made from antimony or soot. It is likely that the Jews adopted the use of cosmetics from the Egyptians, since references to face painting appear in the Old Testament. The almost universal use of cosmetics in modern times has grown with the scientific study of the ingredients employed. This research was begun by the French in the 19th century, and led to the development of more and better cosmetics at low cost.
A large variety of cosmetics and organic body care is generally available today. Cold cream is an emulsion of various oils and waxes and water; it is employed to cleanse and soften the skin. Various purpose-made moisturizers and cleansers are also available. Face powder and dusting powder, based on talcum (powdered magnesium silicate) and zinc oxide, are used to dry and give the skin a satin-like texture. Lip colour, either applied directly as a lipstick or brushed on to the lips, is made of cocoa butter or lanolin, and is manufactured in an endless variety of shades, as are rouges, mixtures of red pigments and starch or finely powdered clay. Bath salts and other bath preparations combine
powdered clay. Bath salts and other bath preparations combine water-softening agents such as sodium carbonate or borax with perfume;
organic bath oils, organic creams are also a popular skin-softening and perfuming aid.
In an enormous market of cosmetics and body care products these days one can find almost anything to take care of his/her health and looks. But there is a problem with these products as almost all of them contain different synthetic substances. Due to the possible danger of synthetic body care products for the health more and more people today prefer to use natural cosmetics and organic body care products. A number of studies were undertaken in a field of natural cosmetics and body care. Scientists and medical doctors try to find out new uses of the well known herbs and plants. Some of these recipes have been known for ages but then was forgotten. Such studies bring these old recipes back to life.
The popularity of natural organic body care products is so big that many producers add label "organic product" even though their products are not actually organic. That is why different organic standards for cosmetics and body care products started to appear. So, with label like "organic certified" you can be pretty sure that this product is organic. But still in many countries it is allowed to add into organic body care products so-called "necessary chemicals". To get more information on natural cosmetics and organic body care products and find out the true facts about popular brands in the market, you can go online. On the Internet you can easily find many different web sites with the description of dangerous substances, how dangerous they can be and what cosmetics products contain these chemicals. You can also read messages from people who have used different cosmetic products. Such information will help you to choose the safest cosmetic and body care products.
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