
I am no purist but I am pure in the belief that effective skin care must contain predominantly plant-based ingredients.
This is why:
Plants breathe in what we breathe out, and we breathe in what plants breathe out. This is the circle of life (photosynthesis).
Look at it this way:
Open a bag of baby carrots, put them in a Tupperware container, then stick it in the frig. In the next day or so, what do you see? The inside of the top of the container is dripping with condensation and the carrots look, dry, cracked and whitish. Right?
Our skin gets most of its moisture from the air. We seal moisture out by using non-plant based and chemical products (large molecules). Our skin then pulls moisture from inside the body, just like in the carrot example.
I always decline the paraffin dip when getting a pedicure for this very reason. My feet feel wonderfully soft and moisturized right after the dip, but later they are dryer than ever and look similar to the baby carrots.
Plant based ingredients have small molecules that can penetrate and enable our body to complete the circle of life.
There is no scientific evidence that such chemicals support more than a brief cosmetic change in the skin and there is proof that these substances clog the pores, and block the restoration of healthy balanced skin.