With the tremendous array of skin care products available, how do you choose which ones to use? Undoubtedly, we want to use something that will actually correct, benefit and improve our skin. The importance of ingredients is unquestionable. It is the ingredients in the product that will determine its effeciency and thus if you are spending wisely. There are specific ingredients you should look for in your products, some are good ingredients that you'll be excited to see because of their great benefit, others you'll want to avoid because of their detriment to the skin.

Ingredients we do not want in our skin care products include mineral oil which can form an occlusive barrier on the top of the skin clogging pores, lanolin derived from sheep skin can cause allergic reactions, irritations and aggravate acne, alcohol which is drying and irritating, contributing to hyperpigmentation and pre-mature aging, D and C dyes many of which have proven to be carcinogenic, fragrance the #1 cause of dermatitis, and comedengenic ingredients.

Ingredients found in cutting-edge skin care products are science based broactives some of which mimic or activate skin function. Some ingredients that are "hot" right now are:

vitamins, essential oils, polysacchardes, botanicals, green tea, seaweed, proteins, enzymes, peptides, anti-oxidants

alpha & beta hydroxcy acids, dame, hyaluronic acid, folic acid, licorice, and minerals

These ingredients have drug-like capabilities because they effect the structure and function of the skin. The products are then ingredients termed cosmoceuticals because they penetrate deeper than cosmetics which work in the surface level.

Dermalogica was the first skin care coompany to list all product ingredients on their products. And the first skin care company to create products without ingredieints detrimental to the skin. With their own laboratories and research facilities, their scientists and chemists constantly develop products with the most up to date and active ingredients available. Their resources go into the research and development of products, not on glossy packaging, costly advertising, earning them the description 'Serious Skin Care'.

Today's consumer wants value and results which that's what Dermologica gives you. That's why it is the most requested skin care line world-wide.

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