When you use cosmetics, you want to emphasize your natural beauty. The last thing you think about is getting reddened eyes, swollen eyelids and lips, terrible itching and spots on the skin because of cosmetics. In fact, no one is safe from an allergic reaction.
What Causes Allergy?
Some people have sensitive skin prone to allergies. It is they who are mainly included in the risk group of potential victims of allergies to cosmetics. By coincidence, others prove to be “lucky” enough to get individual intolerance or allergy to cosmetic products. An atypical reaction can occur to almost anything, but the most common allergens are flavors, preservatives, and colorants.
Cosmetics Conservatives Cause Allergy
The more diverse formaldehydes and parabens can be found in the tube, the longer the shelf life of this cosmetic product will be. The manufacturer finds it beneficial: longer shelf life increases the chances for the product to be sold. But the high content of preservatives increases the risk of allergic reactions due to the high concentration of aggressive chemical compounds.
Cosmetics products with a shorter-term shelf life may contain natural preservatives such as beeswax or sorbic acid, but if you suffer from allergy to honey, you’d better give up using this product.
Flavoring Agents
Only very naive people would think that a shampoo or a cream with peach flavor really contains peach. Since we are living in the time of “flavors identical to natural”, it is an unaffordable luxury. Have you forgotten for how long fruit can be stored? And a shampoo?
The stronger and more pleasant the scent of the cosmetic product is, the more flavors it contains. Sometimes it just needs to hide the unpleasant smell of its raw materials, but it is often a usual trick, whose purpose is to charm the customers, regardless of how it might affect their skin.
Natural Cosmetics Is Always Better?
The scientists keep repeating that natural flavoring is sometimes much more dangerous than synthetic flavors. This can be attributed to the fact that natural essential oils, which are excellent natural flavors, can easily cause allergic reactions. In particular, this applies to bergamot and citrus oil.
Tips for Those Prone to Allergy
One should not use expired cosmetics. As soon as the product thickens, changes its smell or color, you should get rid of it without pity, not waiting until the end of its shelf life.
You must not scoop the cream from the jar with your hands for you will spread dirt and bacteria.
Try using disposable cotton discs.
