Ingredients You Don't Want Going into Your Skin

If you need sensitive skin care products, it's easy to get confused with all the brands claiming to offer such products.  Most labels have long lists of ingredients.  It's hard to tell what's good for your sensitive skin and what's not.  Not all long chemical words are bad, and not all short ones or those with plant names are necessarily good.

Below is a list of ingredients that have the potential to be irritating and should be avoided, specially if you are looking for sensitive skin care products:

• Acetone
• Alcohol
• Aluminate sulfate
• Ammonium chloride
• Barium sulfate
• Bee pollen
• Boric Acid
• Bronopol
• Camphor
• Cyclamen aldehyde
• Dimethyl ether
• Ethyl alcohol
• Eugenol
• Formaldehyde
• Fragrance
• Fumaric acid
• Galbanum
• Hydrogen peroxide
• Lanolin
• Lavender (mimics estrogen)
• Menthol
• Methylchloroisothiazolinone
• Methyleugenol
• Mineral oil
• Mint
• PABA (sunscreen ingredient: para-aminobenzoic acid)
• Plant extracts
• Plant essential oils
• Propylene glucol
• Retinol
• Salicylic acid
• Sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) (used for lathering, foam)
• Sodium tallowate
• Sodium thioglycolate
• Sulfur
• TEA-lauryl sulfate
• Thioglycolate
• Urea
• Witch hazel

Sensitive Skin Care Products

Cleure has sensitive skin products that are void of irritating ingredients.  Instead of experimenting trying different products, which can be costly to your pocket book and your skin, Cleure offers trial sizes to test.