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Natural Organic Skin Care Product ReviewsIt's a Greenfootsteps policy to only review products which are properly natural and organic. What do we mean by this? The aim is to help you, the reader, to find satisfactory products which meet high environmental and health standards. We don't review lesser products because there are so many and we are only interested in the best and purest products, made with organic ingredients and following ethical and green principles in their manufacture. Are there any such products?
If you look on the labels of many conventional skin care products you will often see the words "of natural origin". This does not mean that the ingredient is natural in any sense that most of us would understand. Cocamidopropyl betaine for example, is a derivative of coconut oil. It is used extensively in hair and skin conditioners and cleansers. However it is a chemically synthesised product which can cause allergic reactions in some people. This page only considers products which are (almost) 100% natural and which contain mainly organic ingredients. It is virtually impossible to find products which do not contain some synthetic chemicals - usually preservatives, which is why we say almost 100% natural. It's not an easy ideal to achieve! (And there are some perfectly acceptable synthetic ingredients which should cause no-one any problems.) But the aim of these pages is to seek out the very best products available today which are as near as possible to 100% natural and organic. Nevertheless, there may be people who find that some natural ingredients may also provoke allergic responses, so it's important to work out what works for you and your skin. Here's a short list of ingredients you won't find: parabens, artificial fragrances or colourants, petrochemicals, ethyl alcohol, formaldehyde and urea
I am also looking for the very best quality natural organic skin care products which deliver a good experience for the consumer. That's not to say that you won't find the odd criticism, but rather that you can be sure that all the skin care products discussed here are very high quality products which we've found to be pretty good or better!
Green People's Vita Min FixThis product claims to "keeps dry tired skin revitalised". I'm not sure my skin falls quite into that category but this nourishing cream is clearly a very high quality product jam-packed with good, organic ingredients. It is not greasy but it is not quite light either, in the sense that you are very aware at first that you have applied something to your skin. The scent is strongly of geranium, a sweet, heady scent which I'm sure most people will love. Perhaps some men might find it a little too feminine, though!Most of the ingredients you could happily put on your dinner plate. There's olive oil, avocado and seaweed, hemp oil and sunflower oil to name but a few. One of the really impressive things about the Green People range is that they include no fillers or bulking agents. Whereas many conventional skin care products are contain only around 6% active ingredients - or less, the Green People range products contain over 90% active ingredients. This makes them actually very good value for money. I've certainly noticed with my Vita Min Fix cream, a very little goes a long way. I've never been a great fan of moisturisers and nourishing creams. Often they seem to dry the skin as you continue to use them - probably because your skin gives up on producing its own secretions and natural moisturisers as they are replaced by the product. I've not found that with Vita Min Fix. I've been using it for more than two weeks on a daily basis. My skin feels soft and hydrated and I've no criticisms to make of it at all as a skin product. One small criticism of the packaging is that I would like to see rather larger print on the pack of the ingredients. This wouldn't be especially easy to do as the pack is only 50ml. There is a full ingredient list on both the dispenser and the packaging. Slightly larger writing might help with readability for people with less than perfect vision. There is a very small amount of synthetic preservative included. After all, organic substances are naturally subject to deomposition and deterioration. GreenPeople use the very minimum possible to achieve longevity of the product. The dispenser is an air-excluding pump which helps products to store safely without deteriorating. Many of the ingredients are not only organic but also ethically sourced. Vita Min Fix - (and the other GreenPeople products) have both Soil Association and Organic Food Federation certification. Their products are mostly also suitable for vegans and vegetarians and they've won a shelf full of awards. Much of the palm oil use in cosmetics is not so very ethical; orang utans and other forest species such as the Sumatran tiger are directly threatened by this pre-occupation we have with palm oil products. Overall, this is otherwise a very impressive product.
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