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What is actually the possibility of cosmetic products
and what it can do for skin health.
Any person inherent desire to please. And no matter how convinced us that inner beauty is more important than the individual
exterior, pleasant well-groomed person achieves the desired goal much faster. And have a good person willing to not only women, but men! According to experts, 30% of men are plastic surgery patients. And it's businessmen, politicians, people of creative professions, former athletes. Fashion Belmondo wrinkles disappearing. Look good, be well-groomed, smooth skin of the face have become prestigious.
People are willing to pay a lot of money, and many have the opportunity. It is in Russia bought the largest number of luxury cars, expensive perfumes and more expensive and high-quality cosmetics. And for this we must first understand what is actually possible cosmetic product and what it can do for skin health.
What do people want when choosing cosmetics?
Their goal - to find those few drugs that would ensure an optimal skin care.
Modern classification implies the division of cosmetics into two broad categories: mass cosmetics and professional.
Mass, that is located in the free market, according to the criteria of price and quality are traditionally divided into sub-classes: luxury (or selectively - from the English. To select - to select, elect, or the elite), drugstore and mass market.
Mass-market the most numerous class: here is the whole mass cosmetics which is designed for daily care, but it can not solve some really serious problems (even if it is promised in the annotations).
Such funds (both Russian and foreign production) will be able to deliver you from just one - the contraction of the skin after washing domestic water with high chlorine content. However, the variation in prices and quality in this class can be quite impressive, since the mass itself Cosmetics subdivided into several levels.
The cheapest option - the "lower mass-market" - can be found on the shelves of ordinary shops next to sanitary napkins, and soap (about street stalls will not speak, it is still possible to run into contraband cosmetics "low Arnaut" remember Kisa Vorobyaninov green mustache from "12 chairs"?)
Typically, the lower categories are represented neraskruchennyh domestic brands and imported cosmetics of unknown origin. If you do not buy in the markets and flea markets, where you can easily find expired goods, had lain a few years in some garage or hangar with violations of the conditions of storage, such cosmetics, as a rule, no harm does, but the impact of it can not be expected.
Because it is composed of a fatty base and flavoring, and the minimum number of active substances that make effective cosmetics. In short, instead of this cosmetics is better to buy a normal baby cream. Examples of this class of cosmetics darkness multitudes do not want to do advertising of any brand.
Slightly higher in the pyramid is cosmetics class "mass-market average."
Are listed for example, some of the most popular mass brands: L'Oreal, Maybelline, Bourjois, Karaja, Nivea, Venus, Laboratoiries Garnier, Revlon, Wella, Lakme, Cliven, Astor, Arcancil, Naturelle, Fresh Look, Lumene, Johnson & Johnson, Yves Rocher, Doctor Nature, Clairol, Rilken, Swiss Formula, Freeman.
For the mass market, and are almost all brands of propagating through direct sales:
Oriflame, Avon, Mary Kay, "Mirra Lux", Faberlic and most others.
Most manufacturers write that it is composed of those or other biologically active substances, such as seafood, honey, herbal extracts. The presence of vegetable raw materials is especially alarming because the chemical composition of any plant is not stable from year to year - in the dry season it can be strikingly different from rainy.
Change the properties of even the time of day, the location of the southern slope or on the north, the phase of the moon, etc. Professional herbalists long learning this craft, and they collected the plants really help against many diseases, but in fact for the production of cosmetic raw materials on an industrial scale massively collected casual collectors, or even desired plants are grown artificially.
Just as greenhouse cucumbers differ in taste from real grown under the sun, phytonutrients in cosmetics are often of unknown origin and unknown properties. But especially do not worry - active additives in cosmetics class "mass-market mid-range" are present, usually at a concentration of no more than "polkapli a bucket."
Somewhat apart in our cosmetic products pyramid is distributed through drugstores. Often, this sales channel are not quite decent company. It is with this makeup happening greatest confusion in the mind of the consumer - it is positioned as the most powerful and healing.
Pharmacy people trust, and very few people think about the fact that the strong medications must be prescribed even cosmetologist and dermatologist, and she Cosmetics is not entitled to be in the free market, even in the pharmacy.
In fact, through pharmacies are two kinds of cosmetics: cosmetics mass market, which also can be sold in pharmacies and stores (Vichy, Ozon, Lierac, Clarins, B-lift, Bishoff) and cosmetics, which for some of its parameters I have not held up selective.
Selective cosmetics (also called elite or deluxe) - in most cases the brand owned by a leading fashion houses and companies with their own research institutions and laboratories.
She sold only in specialized departments of big stores (and necessarily with the consultant). There is such expensive cosmetics, because in addition to the high quality of the buyer pays also for the well-known name (about 30% of the cost).
The quality of almost all selective brands are close, and the main difference from the mass market - is the ability to at least some extent, to eliminate some serious skin problems, that is, to fight wrinkles, acne, pigment spots, dehydrated or excessive brilliance of the skin, cellulite and t. d. Furthermore, the produced cosmetics are usually more expensive package.
Among the abundance of selective cosmetics is, unfortunately, a lot of dummies, however, there are examples of outstanding quality, but to buy them should be after consultation with the beautician. So, here is a very short list: Christian Dior, Givenchy, Chanel, Clarins, Elizabeth Arden, Estee Lauder, Lancome, Helena Rubinstein, Guerlain, Nina Ricci, Versace, Clinique, Shiseido, Kanebo, Lelis, Sea of Spa, Yves Saint Laurent , Sisley, Cellcosmet and others.
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