Organic skin care products were few and far between about twenty years ago, today you can find them everywhere. Today, the organic products industry, which includes body and skin care products, is a billion dollar industry. What does all this mean? Consumer are getting more savvy about what they put into and onto their bodies.
Local chain stores such as Target, Walgreen’s, Kohl’s, and Wal-Mart carry certified organic skin care products. Aveda and Weleda carry body wash and lotion that are all natural. Mod Skin Labs and Ojon offer organic hair and body cleansers that don’t produce a build up on chemicals in the skin and they reduce irritation. All of these companies are also active in the environment, trying to make it a better place to live. These products and more are easy on the pocketbook and wonderful for your body.
If you're buying "natural" products, not labeled as organic, be sure to read the labels carefully. The front of the shampoo or skin lotion bottle may say it contains palm oil, but how much? Ingredients on labels must be listed in order of the amounts of each that are contained in the product. You may see palm oil on the label, but if it is at the bottom, then that means that there is actually very little in the preparation. Most of the ingredients may actually not be good for your skin and can be hurting you instead of helping.
Be sure, if you are going to pay a little more for organic skin products, that the label says "certified organic." Products with this label are strictly regimented. If they are not certified, they are probably not worth the extra cost as they may or may not actually have all natural, organic ingredients in them.
Thankfully, these days, organic encompasses more than food. The more natural and pure the products are that we put on our skin, the better off we and our planet will be.