Any skin care products that you use must be effective, safe for use and also environmentally friendly. You can achieve all these objectives if you use organic and natural skin care products.

When you are looking for skin care products, you must use those that have ingredients that are most effective for your skin. Synthetic skin care products contain emulsifiers, surfactants, and preservatives, ingredients that are used more to make the product look good. Natural products, on the other hand, will have ingredients that are active in promoting skin care. These are mainly herbals, vegetable oils, nutrients and essential oils, all of which contain no artificial ingredients.

What then makes for natural skin care? The challenge is to identify the ingredients that are natural and not synthetic. All synthetic products are not harmful or dangerous, and some of them like vegetable emulsifying wax and certain types of alcohol used in these products come from plant sources and have just been altered to make them useful for use in products used in caring for the skin. Natural soaps are altered chemically and thus are no more natural. Cleansers are created from coconut oil by using sodium as a reactant. These are compounds that do not occur in nature and cannot be classified as natural ingredients, but you will find them in a lot of advertised natural skin care products, and they are safe, effective and do not disrupt the environment. Most synthetic ingredients that must be avoided if you are looking to care for your skin naturally, are those that are petroleum based and go through extensive chemical reactions and other manufacturing processes.

It is not difficult to recognize natural ingredients used to care for skin. Herbal extracts, cocoa butter, shea butter, olive oil and coconut oil are prominent among the ingredients used in natural products. Essential oils, rosemary extracts and other fragrances that are made from plant products can be part of these products. Alcohol is considered an organic ingredient mainly used as a natural preservative.

You can have skin that is glowing and healthy by also caring for it through the use of warm water to wash your face. Skin is also helped by adequate rest. There are also a number of natural products from sea kelp and grapeseed oil that can go a long way to help in maintaining glowing and healthy skin, and these can be classified as natural products for caring for the skin. Every person has different skin and you must choose natural products that are suitable and effective for you.