Organic Beauty Products- Good or Bad?

Jessa Bernardo
3 min readJul 22, 2019

Demand for organic or natural beauty products has been on the rise lately. The overuse of chemicals in everything whether its food or makeup in our day to day life has become a huge hindrance in our lives. So, it is understandable that you would want everything in your life to be pure and organic for your good health. But, before you buy too many organic beauty products from your supplier, get to know first whether it is good or bad.

The problem with natural products is not every company that makes these products know well about which ingredients are natural and which are not. Sometimes neither do the customers. We put a lot of trust in the packaging and the ingredients the company claim to use rather than putting our trust on proof that the product is good for our skin. Also, natural doesn’t always mean no presence of chemicals.

Every person’s skin is different from each other. Some have rough skin, some have dry, and some have oily. For example, if you already have oily skin then using a product made with different kinds of oil is not going to do any good to your skin.

On the other hand, it is also true that the more we use chemicals the more disease-prone we become. Chemicals like bleach, paraben, and sulfate found in creams, sunscreens, shampoos, etc are very harmful if used regularly on our skin. So much so that these chemicals can even cause skin cancer. So what is the solution? Using synthetic products or natural products? Well, how about we find evidence by going back just a few decades. Remember when big companies and these fancy packages, different kinds of products and their advertisements, didn’t use to exist. You have probably grown up listening to those stories from your mother and grandmother about how they grew up using all kinds of natural products. Also, it is a known fact that their skin and health used to be a lot better than ours when they were of our age. So, of course, there are some advantages to natural or organic ingredients.

But to use these products we will need to know about these ingredients on what to use, how to use, etc. The most important thing to remember is just don’t blindly believe what your company and its products are advertising. Find out which products work for you best. You don’t have so much time that you would just buy the natural ingredients and use them at home. So, your other option would be to use a trial and error method to find the right company and its products that would suits you the most. No need to go look for branding. Sometimes some local companies turn out to be a lot better than branded companies.

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Jessa Bernardo

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