This week, at The Facial rejuvenation Clinic, we decided to share some information about wich are the most important ingredients in your favourite skin care beauty products.

Fiona: Hi, my name is Fiona Lewis, from The Facial Rejuvenation Clinic and today we have Lee Wood with us, who is a medical product developer and and she’s worked very closely with The Facial Rejuvenation Clinic to develop a new SkinFit range. How are you doing, Lee?

Lee: Good, thank you, Fiona!

The ingredients you should avoid in any skin care beauty products Fiona: Today we want to chat about this SkinFit range, and how this range is different to what else is on the market, and some of the benefits of the product range itself; we were chatting earlier about how important is to not only know what the active ingredients are in

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the products, but also what’s not in your products; so, can you maybe tell us little bit about SkinFit and the sorts of ingredients that you won’t find in SkinFit range.

Lee: The SkinFit range won’t have any Sodium Lauryl Sulfates which are found in a lot of detergent base cleansers, which have a very stripping effect on the skin, no petrochemicals, and no grasses that really impair the barrier function of the skin, free of parabens and preservatives as well.

Fiona: Some people, I guess, would be quite surprised to hear you say some of these words; they may not even be aware that a lot of personal care products have those sort of ingredients; I know that Sodium Lauryl Sulfate is a cleanser for industrial use…

Lee: Yes, exactly!

Fiona: So, why on earth the people put it inside personal care products?

Lee: It has a great lathering effect, it makes the skin feel super clean – which is not ideal; we are actually stripping acid mantle of the skin, which makes it more susceptible to aggravants penetrating and causes more inflammation within the skin. And inflammation is the largest cause of damage and aging.

Fiona: And is a fairly cheap ingredient, as well, for the other producers to be putting in! So, I guess it’s giving the visual effect and the feeling of being clean, but really it’s actually doing the thing that the product is supposed to be stopping. It might be a product that is supposed to help rejuvenating the skin, but really it could be aging it.

Lee: Yes! On long term it has a side effect of causing those inflammatory properties; so, ideally, you want to use really gentle surfactants that would work with the skin’s natural anatomy, and not strip that acid mantle from the surface of the skin.

Fiona: So I guess what I’m hearing from you is: it’s possible to still have lathering, cleansing and moisture added to the skin without the addition of these dangerous chemicals!

Lee: Exactly! And it’s a matter of cost for some people. You can add very cheap ingredients using minute forms of what we know as active; however, they’re in such a small dosage in a base of emulsifiers and fillers, that they can counter the anti-aging benefits, or the

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corrective benefits of that particular ingredient. The ingredients are very rarely in the right amount or in the right molecular structure to give those clinical benefits that we want.

Fiona: Ages ago, when I first started researching this issue, I was very shocked to out about all the dangers stuffed inside personal care products. Then I went from being shocked to being angry, because I just thought this shouldn’t be allowed. Then I was feeling confused, because I then learned for a lot of these ingredients, there’s actually dozens of names that can be listed on the ingredients label… You might know, for example, that Sodium Lauryl Sulfate is something you want to avoid, but that can can be listed on the ingredients label with another name. So here lies the problem: if I know that I don’t want to use those dangerous chemicals, and I’m reading the labels, how do I know?

Lee: Unless you have a chemistry degree, you won’t know, because you really have to turn the product over and look at the labels and actually see what’s in it.

The highest amount of the product goes on the top of the label with the least amount at the bottom, but, like you said, the chemicals right names aren’t use quite often and people cannot differentiate between what’s good and what’s bad.

So I think the answer in that case is that you need to purchase your products from people that you trust and have a lot of knowledge on these areas so they sort them out for you and took the hard ion’s out.

It’s a matter of trust – they know what they are doing. When we look at clinical practices that are really passionate about this area and want to give their patience the results that keep them in business… they would know what to put you on.

Fiona: So it’s worth doing your due diligence, researching the brands after getting advice from the people you trust, learning which brands deliver a high quality product without sacrificing on safety. And then, once you to know these brands, you can feel secure and safe purchasing them and using them on your skin.

So, as far as SkinFit was concerned, and I guess it was a very conscious decision to only use safe ingredients.

Lee: Absolutely! We wouldn’t compromise in any area; price was not an issue and you don’t have to have expensive products to have a great product. A lot of the formulations are really advanced and putting them together here and developing them meant that we did not have to pay a fortune for the ingredients. We were able to deliver a really price effective range which have brilliant integrity.

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Just because it’s natural, it doesn’t mean it’s good for your skin Fiona: Another topic I want to touch is: I know that there are some purists that say that there’s got to be 100% natural ingredients, no man’s made ingredients!

But I guess there are two points here that we can cover. The first is that just because it’s natural, that doesn’t necessarily means it’s safe. They are some natural ingredients that can actually be quite harmful for your skin.

Lee: Yes, exactly! You really have to decipher through that and work out. What we have done was using the best of medically engineered products with a blend of active botanicals. That gives a beautiful combination, with the best of medical benefits, with the holistic properties that everybody wants at the moment.

Fiona: Yes, and that was going to be my next point, so I am glad you brought that up: proven safe medical ingredients, can actually enhance the proprietes and the effects of the natural ones, can’t they?

Lee: They’re working synergistically. In our active botanicals, you’ve got a lot of anti inflammatories, so we had to work out a system to get those active ingredients into the skin, to get the reversal of the damage that has been done and the scarring through inflammatory skin conditions.

But that beautiful holistic base is not going to cause the side-effects that a lot prescription based medicines for the skin do have. The base isn’t crude, It’s just a beautiful base.

We got a lot of information where people can actually look at those ingredients now, So people are becoming more savvy. If they have a look at what’s in these products they will know that there is just a huge base of beautiful ingredients that calm the skin and work with the skins natural anatomy. So you’re not opposing the skin, you’re working with the skin.

Fiona: and that’s exactly the purpose of your skincare range really, isn’t it? To be working synergistically…

Lee: Yes, like you would feed your internal system with a beautiful diet to keep your organs functioning really well, it’s the same for the largest organ that we have, our skin. Your skin needs a really good diet to be healthy and look it’s best.

Fiona: Fantastic! That’s a great way of looking at it! So I hope that by listening to this interview with Lee, you’ve been able to find out how important it is to understand not just what the active ingredients are in your skin care beauty products, but also how important it is to avoid certain ingredients.

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So Lee, thank you very much the talking to us today about SkinFit.

If you would like to find out more about the skin care beauty products range, please come to the Facial Rejuvenation Clinic on George Street in the city or you can call our clinic on 1300 88 99 35

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