Introduction
After years of using skincare products, Morgane Prost discovered that the list of ingredients in the skincare were very important to investigate.
She found interesting to get knowledge about what we put on our skins and the effect of different ingredients.
Therefore, the first time she got interested was during a video of a youtuber. She found this video accessible understandable to non-scientist people.
How Morgane Prost discovered the importance of the list of ingredients
The beginning of the digging into ingredients in the skincare
After watching this video, Morgane Prost got her products and started to look through all the ingredients. She realized first that the ranking of ingredients was saying a lot on the product. The highest one is the most present and the lowest ones has a low percentage of presence in the product.
Some products that were hydrating, didn’t contain any ingredient to claim this improvement
The types of ingredients in the skincare
After digging through the claiming of product, she decided to find reasons why certain ingredients were used.
It’s important to keep in mind that when you look through them, you will find ingredients that have common names like castor oil: it will make sense to most of the people, but you also have ingredients with difficult scientist names like phenoxyethanol. They are not intuitive names and to understand the need or not of these products you need to go through research.
In addition, apart from helping to improve the skin, a lot of ingredients are used to stabilize the product The purpose of it is to keep the formula clean through time.
In this article, you will find a list of ingredients and their benefits
The marketing in skincare
Difference between marketing and the reality of ingredients in the skincare
Morgane Prost realized that some products she bought were claiming for example hydration, but none of the ingredients were helping to improve skin problems.
A lot of brands use marketing to claim ingredients but these ingredients have a small dose in the product.
Most of ingredients are low cost and used to “fill up” the product without actual importance for the customer.
Besides that, these low-cost ingredients can also have a huge bad impact on the environment. They can for example, pollute water.
The urge to look younger
The new trend on social media and the impact on our routine
Morgane Prost realized that nowadays, there is a certain urge to look younger. People in their 20s already buy anti-aging product without needing it, to prevent it.
The problem with this “trend” is that in these products, a lot of ingredients like retinol, are very aggressive and car break or irritate the skin barrier.
The new trend is to use SPF to prevent the wrinkles but, in most of SPF product, you can find ingredients that can provoke, for example, skin cancer (which goes against the first purpose of the using).
Passion into skincare and ingredients
In conclusion, Morgane Prost discovered a passion into skincare. Thanks to the understanding of ingredients, she can differentiate the marketing of brands and the real claiming of ingredients. Understanding ingredients is for her crucial to not make bad choices and be pickier about the new skincare products she will choose.
In addition to this knowledge, she realized the best skincare is the lifestyle that we adopt. I suggest you this article to discover more about wellness journey of Ema Bianka Kusnirova