I’m sure you know that there are hundreds or thousands of anti aging products such as anti aging creams and anti aging moisturizers on the market. Most don’t work very well however there is a more serious worry about many anti aging creams. Lots of them contain chemical ingredients and these can be damaging to your health. A fine example is one petrochemical ingredient called petrolatum.

Vaseline is pure petrolatum. It can also go by the name of petroleum jelly, petroleum wax, white petroleum or white petrolatum or other names. It is a petrochemical product which means that it is a byproduct of the distillation of crude oil.

An organisation called the Cosmetic Safety Database tracks these ingredients and if you examine their website you’ll see that petrolatum is linked to cancer as well as contamination problems as well is non-reproductive toxicity. They describe the risk to your health from petrolatum as low to moderate however that is not the only consideration. They describe problems of contamination and it is this that poses the risk to your health. During various manufacturing processes petrolatum can be contaminated with chemicals called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or what are otherwise known as PAHs. These are considered to be very toxic and linked to a range of health problems including cancer.

And the companies that produce these products do not test for the presence of PAHs in their products and so you are unlikely to know if they are there. Even if they are it won’t say so on the label.

So why is petrolatum used in so many skin care products and anti aging products such as anti wrinkle creams and anti aging moisturizers? There is one simple answer. It’s because petrolatum is incredibly cheap. The cheaper the ingredients you can find for the products the more profit you make. The FDA is not required to test for petrolatum or any other dangerous ingredients such as PAHs and so, because they can, the anti aging companies use them in their products.

There are some highly effective natural ingredients which are known to promote better skin health and which are extremely safe to use but these are rarely used in most mainstream anti aging products because they are much more expensive and therefore reduce profit margins.

However these ingredients are used in the best anti aging and anti wrinkle creams and moisturizers and the result is extremely effective and very safe products which work very well. However this also means that the cost of the products is much higher than the cost of mainstream anti aging products and therefore, if the companies that make them advertised them, they would sell at a price that would make them uncompetitive in the marketplace.

The companies that make them don’t advertise their products because they can’t afford to and so they rely on the slow growth of a dedicated group of loyal customers who use the products for life and the business grows in this way. But because they don’t advertise I can be sure you’ve never heard of these companies even though they make top shelf anti aging products.

So there is excellent news. You can buy high quality anti aging products and if you look on the label of any of these products you won’t see petrolatum or any other chemical or petrochemical ingredients on the label. They are extremely effective, use much more expensive ingredients and deliver what is asked of them.

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