1. 100% Natural / Made with Natural Ingredients
2. Organic / Organic Cosmetics
3. Cruelty Free/ Animal Friendly
- Products that do not test on animals most of the time, mean that there is nothing innovative about their formulation or their ingredients. They rely on available standards on cosmetic product formulation that have already been proven to be effective and/or safe through guess what? – most likely by animal testing.
- If the ingredients or formulation is new and a product claims they don’t test on animals, well maybe their suppliers already did, and this claim doesn’t guarantee that.
4. Environmentally Friendly
5. Chemical Free (LOL)
Unless your jar of night cream contains pure energy or complete vacuum this claim is just, so wrong. Don’t buy any product that claims it.
6. Hypoallergenic
7. Dermatologist-Approved
- What are the affiliation of these dermatologist? What if the dermatologist is the company’s employee?
- At what standards are these products “approved?”
This is not to discredit dermatologist because they are skin professionals. It’s just that this claim is not strictly regulated so there’s never really a way to know how it was approved. Know more about the product and its ingredients. Don’t rely on this claim to decide if it’s the best product for you.
8. Dermatologically Tested
Here’s what comes in to my mind when I see products that are dermatologist tested: “ So How did the test go? Is it good or bad?”
Who knows how the test went. There is no uniform standards across the industry on what test procedure is to be followed for companies to make such a claim and no regulating body on how these claims are used. So to me, these claim can't really guarantee a product's efficacy and safety.
9. Does not Contain * Insert scary ingredient here *
Also, this claim doesn’t really tell anything about the other ingredients that it contains besides on what it doesn’t have. This claim will be helpful for consumers who have specific list of ingredients that choose to avoid. It should not be the basis to generalize that all products containing this ingredient is unsafe.
10. Alcohol Free
Yes, it is a wilderness out there and sadly some companies treat labels as a marketing strategy more than a statement of factual information. But how do you know the good products then?
Be Informed
Patch Test
Read the product ingredients
Ingredients list is important because products are required by law to disclose them. Products can claim whatever they want but all truth boils down to what their ingredients say. If a product says it contains aloe vera but it is in the last few items in the product ingredients, then it gives you an idea aloe vera in the product is too little to give noticeable effects.
Parting Note....
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I'm Catherine Anne - I love to be called by my two names but people are lazy so they call me Anne. I am a Chemical Engineer, Pole Dancer, Cosmetic Nerd and Crypto-Newbie squeezed into a five-foot-one human. I am excited to share pieces of my self to this community. I hope that you love this tiny space I occupy in Hive.
If you think I deserve some lovin' please do upvote this post and leave a comment - I'd be very happy to read them. Follow me so I can annoy you more often. Love ya'
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