Do It yourself Cosmetics

Be Aware of the Ingredients!

While bathroom cabinets are filled, our wallets are gradually emptied, because beauty care is particularly expensive. Not to mention that a lot of the products we buy contain harmful ingredients for our skin: petroleum, preservatives and emulsifiers in large quantities, perfumes and surfactants.

The so-called "natural cosmetics" are often just insincere and not natural at all, trying to attract the consumers with fake promises. But is it possible to make the right choice spotting the good ingredients and choosing the best products?

How to Read Ingredients in Beauty Products?

The list of ingredients of a cosmetic is called INCI (International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients) and by law must appear on every package of cosmetic products. The ingredients are written in order of quantity, the first ones appear more in the product, while the last ones are present in less quantity.

But this is not all: it is also important to be able to understand the different ingredients! You don't need a degree in chemistry for that, in fact a great help comes from cosmetics databases, just as CosIng, the European Commission database with information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. Biodizionario.it is a great italian resource for searching ingredients. In cosmetics databases you just have to type the ingredient and discover its function.

Choose the Natural Ingredients!

In addition to these useful tools, we can safely entrust us with the ingredients that nature give us: fruits and vegetables, for example, but also natural oils and butters. In fact the best solutions are often the simplest. Not always a 200 € cosmetic is more effective than a homemade mask. So why not try to prepare, with little expense and little time, our personal beauty products?

Use Diy Cosmetics to create your own cosmetics and to enjoy the effectivness of nature: you will not regret it!