Im sure that most of us know what is body lotion or moisturizer right? hmm... These two weeks are the most busiest weeks in this semester i guess... everyday have to burn mid night oil and this actually hurts our skin the most! Usually i will apply some body lotion before sleep. But now, i seldom. That's because i myself also dont even have the time to sleep!! Where comes the time to apply body lotion and stuff like that?? And the result is, my skin is vry dry now... haiz... poor skin.. So, people!! Please protect your skin especially girls!! Lol..
For those that apply body lotion or skin moisturizer, have u ever curious about the ingredients inside the liquid thing that able to make your skin looks fresh and moisturized? For me, i had never until now... That's y im going to find that out and also share with all of you here...
Lotion is actually a low medium in viscosity material to apply to unbroken skin. Usually lotion contains chemical such as cetearyl alcohol to keep the emulsion of oil and water together. Other than that, fragrances, preservatives and dyes are usually added in also to the lotion to make them more easily acceptable by users.
Other than mosturized the skin, lotion also have other useness in medication sector. It can use as antiseptic, antibiotic, anti-acne agents and also anti-itching agents. Here, i will choose one agents to talk about. The material that cause the lotion to be anti-itching is calamine. Inside calamine, there are zinc oxide and about 0.5% of iron (III) oxide. It can use to treat condition such as sunburn, chicken pox, insects bites and also rashes.
Most of the time, when we look at the ingredients inside, the thing that we concern about the most is, will the ingredients bring harm to us or not? Actually, it should be consider safe to use. Because the cream or lotion have to penetrate through your skin and moisturized the skin. If it is dangerous or harmful, sure there will be some effect shown or some reports being reported and thus i dont think so many of us are using the lotion now...
Although most of the lotion available should be safe to be use, there are still some lotion that we should take note about. Lotion will only provide long term effects if there are some natural ingredients. Avoid some artificial ingredients such as alcohols, mineral oil and the synthetic derivative of useful coconut oil, dioxane. These products had actually been recommended by all skin specialist around the world and should not appear in the lotion as some of them will cause skin cancer. Thus, please be careful when selecting your own choice of lotion. For alcohols, they may appear in the lotion in fragrances form. They are harmful as they might also cause skin cancer and also other skin problems.
Thus, please be careful when choosing your lotion products while protect and moisturized your skin!! Use it safe and use it well for yourself. ^^
Reference:
1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_lotion
2) http://ezinearticles.com/?Are-You-Rubbing-Chemicals-on-Your-Body-With-Body-Creams and-Lotion?&id=1421026
3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamine
4) http://ezinearticles.com/?Benefits-of-Using-Body-Lotion-and-Creams&id=1353570
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