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How to shop beauty products wisely giving care to your Skin?

We have been coming across many beauty products in our daily life. Even though we don’t want to buy them we are been compelled to buy them as they may be the modern trend. May be the advertisement motivates us to buy them. For some people cosmetics are the major part of their expense.  Many women are easily deceived by advertisements.

Actually we can’t tell it as deceived. It’s just they are more susceptible to these ads (especially ads on cosmetics). Or else all these companies or ad agencies would have been out of business. One point to be noted is that we must be wiser when spending on cosmetics.Smooth skin is being the dream of every human being. Hazardous cosmetics should be avoided as it damages your skin in large scale.Here we provide you some simple tips by which you can shop smart.

  • Understand hype – We must learn to recognize hype from reality. Most of the ads are hype.Whenever you try to buy a product just make sure that they provide a money back guarantee.
  • Keep in touch with reviews- there are lots of magazines and articles published based on these matters. Although magazines are well known sometimes they need not be really trusted. Always it’s better for a person to search the net on these ideas, so that they can also get reviews of their competitors.
  • Expensive don’t mean best – we usually want to make ourselves convince that buying costly products is better than cheap ones. This cannot be true. In case of cosmetics whether it may be costly or cheap, the ingredients are almost the same.
  • Asses your skin- a lot of expenditure can be avoided by just knowing your skin well. Some people have dry skin whereas some have oily skin. Dry skin requires a better moisturizer than an oily skin. You must shop items also based on your skin color. Skin tone and color awareness is important in shopping cosmetics. If you don’t know the above consult a dermatologist and ask him to give you information for smarter shopping.

Some good tips for Body Care and Skin Care

  • The concept of ‘If a little is good, a lot is better does not apply to essential oils. Use a dropper. For a bath, place 5 to 6 drops of the essential oil of your choice into the tub.
  • Stir the essential oil into a cup containing two tablespoons of whole milk and pour the emulsion into the tub. To decrease stress, add lavender, rosemary or sage essential oil to base oil like almond or avocado, and massage.
  • Always use the high quality essential oil from a reputed company.
  • Never apply neat essential oil on the skin, except for lavender and tea tree oil.
  • Consult a doctor if you are pregnant, epileptic or have high blood pressure.
  • Quality essential oil usually comes in dark glass bottles with droppers.
  • Proceed with inhalations cautiously if you have asthma or are prone to nose bleeds
  • Do not use the same essential oil over a long period of time. Most last for a year or two, if kept in a dark bottle in a cool place.
  • Blended oils with carrier oils should be used up within 1 to 2 months as the therapeutic value starts to reduce.