Are preservative or paraben free ingredients the best for my skin?
Any skin care product formulated without preservatives would be filled with micro-organisms and bacteria in a very short period of timeat great risk to the user. Also, these types of products would have to be refrigerated with a very short shelf life span and therefore not suitable to being shipped very far from the site of manufacturing. In fact, it is illegal to produce topical-use products for sale without preservatives as a health measure. There is no real supporting data or scientific test trials that show parabens to be anything more then totally safe for useand they have been used since the 1920s. There are many types of safe preservatives that actually HELP the skin in regards to local bacteria, molds and fungus. No matter how NATURAL a skin care range would claim itself to bethere has to be preservative system in the formulation. To claim otherwise is false advertising and misleading to the public. The natural and organic movement is not new. It was even more rampant in the 19
