The small plants of skin care products are also small and fresh.

Why are pure plants and natural sounds so attractive? Because "plants are milder, not irritating" - the most "red" beauty lie in recent decades!

Is the plant irritating? On the contrary, plants are one of the largest sources of allergens. The number of people who suffer from "pollen allergy" every year is far more than "dirty air allergy" and "chemical pollution allergy". For the preference and even worship of plants, most of them come from traditional herbal medicine and various "worldly classics", just as we know about Chinese medicine: gentle conditioning, slow effect... However, don't forget that there has been "hand to disease" in history. The god doctor, there is no shortage of "a fatal" tiger wolf medicine. Why ancient herbs can no longer cure diseases quickly, not because they are really so "moderate". In addition to the errors or changes in the variety of raw materials and production methods, it may be that "the medicine at the time" may not be able to treat the "current disease". (The disease also evolves and mutates).

Many plants are poisonous, and the composition or mechanism of action of some highly toxic plants is too complicated. It is still a mystery that humans cannot solve. Interestingly, many of the botanical ingredients that are good for the skin are not fully understood. Sounds unreliable? "Complex" and "diverse" are the characteristics of nature.

Therefore, the health care products containing plants are not necessarily safer than other skin care products, and may not be effective. The so-called "plant maintenance" or "natural maintenance" means adding plant extract ingredients as much as possible in the traditional basic care products formula, while "organic skin care products" means that most of the plant materials selected are organically certified - All of this only indicates “source of raw materials”, which means that the manufacturing process is more environmentally friendly and has no absolute relationship with “skin care effect”.

As for products that are ineffective or irritating, neither "slowly conditioning your skin" nor "adding artificially", the more reasons are: First, they are not suitable for you; Second, some skin problems simply cannot Solve by external coating.

Second, natural ingredients are also chemical substances

Some brands that use the "natural" banner, like to add a few petals or blades of grass to the product, look pretty and lovely, but if you put the original petals on your face, will there be any reaction? "Botanical ingredients" and "pure plants" are two concepts. The former refers to "active substances extracted from plants", and the latter is the leaves of petals that do not play any role on the face. Some people may say that the juice of some plants does have skin care effects, but that also because some of the "chemicals" play a role. Modern biotechnology is trying to analyze and research and try to accurately separate and use the "chemical substances" that are effective in "natural ingredients".

Third, 100% natural and efficient skin care products have not yet come out

What is contained in a bottle of cream? Water, oil, water-soluble substances, oil-soluble substances... How to make them fused together and keep the traits stable and absorbed by the skin requires the participation of various ingredients and the intervention of a series of production processes.

Perhaps you have heard of "emulsifiers", "stabilizers", "surfactants", "preservatives", etc. Before being scared away by these terms, you must first define two points: First, since it is making "skin care products" There should be no substance that is “extremely bad” to the skin; secondly, all substances may originate from “natural” or “artificial”.

Why choose plants? Since some ingredients already exist naturally and are relatively easy to obtain, why bother to artificially synthesize? Why not choose plants? Some natural substances are too "unruly", not the current technology can be perfectly controlled, perhaps it has such advantages, the shortcomings are equally obvious and difficult to overcome, then you have to reluctantly cut love. The most famous examples are “natural preservatives”: some have poor odor, some have a short duration of action, some are difficult to integrate with other ingredients, and some are too expensive to obtain. Replaces the current common preservatives. In addition, some skin care products with high plant content are prone to problems such as water and oil stratification, color texture changes, etc. - often natural stabilizers have problems.

The quality and yield of natural ingredients are often greatly affected by the place of origin and the weather, and cannot be as stable as artificial ingredients. Everyone knows the story of “Southern Orange Beibei”. If you only look at “natural” and don’t ask whether it’s “orange” or “枳”, it doesn’t have much benefit to the skin. However, if the cost between "orange" and "枳" is very different, choose which one, you must completely look at the "conscience" of the brand business and the pursuit of quality, ordinary people can not identify.

So far, in addition to the extremely simple raw material products such as whole bottle of olive oil and mineral water, there is no complicated, stable and efficient formula on the market. It can use 100% pure natural substances and completely abandon artificial synthesis. However, even if such a product appears, in addition to meeting the psychological needs of "natural control", there is not much extra skin effect.

Fourth, "small fresh" will also "heavy taste"

Originally, “natural” and “plant” refer to the source of materials, while “high-tech” refers to the means of production, and there is no conflict between them. However, in the eyes of some thorough "naturalists", only by doing it yourself can be regarded as "returning to the truth": organic vegetables, fruits, honey, dairy products, animal and vegetable oils, flowers, food, all without pesticides, no harmful additions, materials Fresh, direct juice milled powder, then wiped on the skin ... Such DIY, we do not agree: not only invalid, its "finished products" may also be too "heavy taste" on the skin, causing irritation and injury.

The field of beauty manufacturing does not advocate "retro". The biggest advancement in the production of modern natural cosmetics lies in the selection, separation and purification of natural active substances in raw materials and the reasonable matching with other substances. This is not easy for ordinary people to make in the kitchen according to the "home secret recipe". Of course, there are brands that love such legendary stories. They even shape botanical constituents into the adventure heroes of the snow-covered lotus and the abyss. However, behind the romance, there are only “cold and cold” raw material suppliers and “boring”. Formulation experiments as a support.