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Article: - Why bother with organic skin care?
Organic skin care probably isn’t the number #1 priority for most teenagers, which is pretty understandable as this is the time when everything seems to be happening at once! Exams, parties, romances…
In fact it’s highly probable that most teens haven’t even thought about it.For most teenagers although their skin is a major worry, its more about sorting out a way to get rid of what’s on your face… make-up, spots, rather than worrying about what’s going on your face.
However, for some reason – be it that you are trying to you are trying to be a bit more eco-friendly or you have stumbled across/been brought a few of our organic skin care products and discovered how well they work – you’ve arrived here at Oy!
Whilst we have your attention, we thought we’d point out a few good reasons why you should care about what you are putting onto your skin, and why organic skin care is so good for teenage skin.
Good for your skin!
You probably consider your skin a pretty good barrier. After all you don’t have to worry about anything getting through it, right? Wrong. Up to 60% of what you put on your skin is absorbed through the skin cells and right into your body. And, as some big skin care brands actually contain some pretty strong chemicals, this is something to worry about.
With organic skin care, you don’t have to worry about any of that. We don’t use any of those harsh chemicals in Oy! products. Instead we pick pure, natural and, most of all, safe ingredients for our skin care range. We use certified organic ingredients wherever we can because these will not have been affected by pesticides and other chemicals.
Have you ever broken out in a rash or had dry, itchy skin after using a beauty product? The natural ingredients we use are much gentler on the skin than their chemical alternatives and are much less likely to cause reactions. Some things you will find in lots of mainstream bathroom products are Sodium Lauryl Sulphate and parfum/perfume. Parfum is a really common cause of allergy and SLS is a recognised skin irritant. Not the stuff of beauty!
Here are the main points:
- Your skin can absorb a lot what you put on it so give it nice, organic plant extracts and oils rather than harsh synthetic chemicals. You’d drink a delicious fruit smoothie but we’re guessing not a glass of bleach?! So why treat your skin any differently?
- Organic skin care products are made from certified organic ingredients that will have been grown without coming into contact with dangerous pesticides.
- Chemicals used in mainstream skin care products can commonly cause reactions like spots! Natural products are much less likely to adversely affect sensitive teenage skin, so you can smooth on those beauty products happily.
Eco-friendly!
Organic skin care is also eco friendly, which makes it an excellent choice for those who like to look out for the environment. Farms which grow plants organically use a lot less energy than those who use pesticides – as much as 50% less! This is good for the planet because these farms use a lot less fuel and create fewer greenhouse gases.
Organic farms are also friendlier to the local wildlife and provide a better habitat for them. Birds flourish on organically-run farms and there are 5 times as many wild plants found on the land.
This is all to do with what happens to the ingredients not the final product. But what happens when you use it or throw some away? Our organic teenage skin care products are so eco-friendly that they won’t harm the environment – even if you decided to go and lather up in a stream! (P.S Don’t by the way… public nudity is often frowned upon.)