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What YOu Don't Want To Know About Moisturizers For Oily Skin.

By Peter Albertonach
Nov 5, 2009
Skin care products, including moisturizers for oily skin, are big business but the reality is that for people with oily skin modern mainstream skin care products such as oily skin moisturizers deliver very little and can even be risky to your health and your skin as a result of many of the chemical ingredients used in these products.

Most of the skin care products that you see advertised contain many chemical as well as petrochemical ingredients, and I shall give you an example of this.

Mineral oil is found very commonly in an exceedingly wide range of beauty and personal products and skin care products such as moisturizers for dry skin and moisturizers for oily skin.

Mineral oil is a petrochemical product that is a byproduct of the distillation of crude oil. Mineral oil goes by a wide range of different names and so even if you look on the label of the skin care products you use now you may not see mineral oil listed there even though it is an ingredient in the product because it is being listed under a different name.

Mineral oil has no moisturizing properties. The intention is that it will coat the skin with a thin film of oil which will help prevent moisture loss from the skin. However mineral oil does not add any moisture to the skin, and when it forms a layer of oil over the skin it can cause problems such as acne and it can also prevent the skin from eliminating toxins through the pores.

Mineral oil is very suspect and has been linked to allergies and cancer as well as skin irritation and eye irritation. And it can be absorbed into the body in small quantities and work to create problems with vitamin absorption.

So why would mineral oil be used in beauty and personal care products such as skin care products that so many consumers use every single day? The reason is simple, the reason is that mineral oil is incredibly cheap.

There are many excellent natural alternatives to using mineral oil in products such as moisturizers for oily skin and moisturizers for dry skin. Some good examples are Avocado extract, Shea butter and Babassu oil as well as a wide range of other naturally occurring ingredients all of which have been known for some time to have excellent skin moisturizing properties and which are much more effective as skin moisturizers than mineral oil.

And it's perfectly possible to buy outstanding natural skin care products which use ingredients like these to produce an excellent result at increasing skin moisture levels. One company in particular produces an excellent range of skin care products containing no chemical or petrochemical ingredients that work very well at promoting overall skin health and skin moisture. And this company doesn't even produce a moisturizer at all because all of it's products work equally well to improve skin moisture for anyone with oily skin problems or dry skin problems.

So clearly these natural skin care products must be very expensive if the ingredients used in them are more expensive however that is not the case. This company does not engage in any television advertising and so the cost of television advertising is not factored into the price of the products as they are in most mainstream skin care products such as oily skin creams. For this reason their natural skin care products are in fact very competitively priced.

If you have oily skin and are looking for a top shelf moisturizer for oily skin than there are now excellent natural skin care products available to you which are very effective alternatives to those oily skin creams and oily skin moisturizers containing chemical and petrochemical ingredients you may have on your shelves right now.

There is no reason why anyone with oily skin should have any problem moisturizing. Natural skin care products that promote optimum skin health do this very effectively.

To find out where to get the products visit my website.
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