Why are you spending hundreds & thousands of dollars on products which are over-hyped with beauty jargon like cosmeceuticals, spaceuticals, stem cells, gene therapy and diamond infused etc?
It’s all marketing hype to get consumers to spend more. Ingredients can’t be copyrighted. You can make your own premium skin care products with active ingredients. Just like you don’t need to pay a baker or patisserie for a chocolate cake, you can simply bake it yourself.
A chocolate cake may cost $10, but to add value, the cake shop, oh sorry that’s patisserie will call it "the famous Austrian Sachertorte, one of the best chocolate cakes in the world!” Now to support the claim, they will make a huge chocolate cake. Not just big, but triple layered with fancy chocolate curls and real chocolate in the icing and dollops of cream for a truely rich and chocolaty cake, which looks as good as it tastes. Now this cake costs way more than a regular chocolate cake, but this is no ordinary cake. But you are probably not surprised that many people want a special cake for a birthday or event, and they are happy to pay more, even though they can get a way cheaper cake at the supermarket, or bake it themselves.
Now the cosmetic industry also creates perceived value with many extra’s. It will be in the form of elaborate packaging, celebrity endorsements, exotic ingredients, secrecy, mystery and wild claims. The price tags are outrageous! The ingredients are unbelievable: Creams with cashmere, caviar, magnets etc. Are they really adding value or is it just hype? Many of the trendy ingredient molecules are just not small enough to penetrate the skin.
The funny thing is people think that if you make your own skin care, it won’t work. They think you are crazy to think natural ingredients and skin actives, botanical extracts, hydrosols and DIY youth elixirs and serums can be equally therapeutic and rejuvenating as expensive skin care lines. Many people don’t even realise you can buy the latest trendy ingredients like DMAE, Peptides, idebenone, Alpha Lipoic Acid, Hydrolysed protein, hydroxyl acids, preservatives, epidermal growth factor, and much more from your local health store or online. The truth is you convert a base cream into high end products for a fraction of the price. The beauty of making your own, is you can customise and you can use higher concentrations of the active ingredients! You could even make your own base creams, infusions, tinctures and balms from scratch.
Haute couture aka high end prestige skin care products are easily imitated by incorporating trendy ingredients into a base cream such as Marine-derived ingredients, Epidermal growth factor, Neuro-Peptides, Blue Lotus Extract and Pomegranate extract. You can purchase potent active ingredients to super charge your creams and moisturizers. A little goes a long way - literally a few drops per ounce.
Where can I buy Active Ingredients?
Australia
Australian raw materials, clays, emollients, herbs, active ingredients
http://shop.newdirections.com.au/
USA
Formulations and Ingredients
http://www.personalformulator.com/
Extracts, hydrosols, Capsules, Herbs
http://www.mountainroseherbs.com/index2.html
UK
Active, natural raw materials
http://www.aromantic.co.uk/buy-active-skin-care-cosmetic-raw-ingredients-uk.htm
Taiwan
Skin actives, cosmeceuticals, botanical extracts
Where can I get a Great Skin care Recipe to make Spa Quality Creams and Moisturisers?
How to Make Your Own Skin Care Products
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