If you use a product with propylene glycol, are you comfortable working anti-freeze deep into open skin tissue? Do you want to massage clogging oils such as isopropyl and myristyl myristate and octyl palmitate deep within skin tissues to clog fresh pores? Phenoxyethanol, paraffins, artificial color and fragrance irritate newly opened skin; mineral oil, and methyl, butyl, ethyl and propylparabens are known toxic petroleum based synthetic waxes that also have a weak estrogenic effect. Fillers lack the natural scientific benefits of the crystal and are unable to perform! Remember, you are opening up skin pores and depositing the ingredients in the formulation deep within skin tissue.
Our most unfavorite ingredients for microdermabrasion products!!
Fillers: magnesium oxide crystals, synthetic or unfused aluminum oxide, sodium bicarbonate, pearl powder, silica, pumice lack the scientific benefits of the corundum crystal and merely exfoliate and are unable perform salon strength microdermabrasion.
Lanolin: Natural softener that unfortunately usually contains a high amount of pesticides due to spraying of animal fur causing allergic reactions.
Mineral oil and Petrolatum: Synthetic petroleum based hydrocarbons. Extreme toxicity. Known mutagenic, irritant and allergen. Often favored by uninformed doctors as it does not penetrate and forms a barrier.
Octyl Palmitate, Isopropyl and Myristyl Myristate: Synthetic clogging oils - it's cousins are: isopropyl palmitate, isotherma, putty stearate, laureth-4, decyloleate, isotearyl neopentonate, octyl stearate, iso-cetyl stearate, PPG myristyl proprionate, highly penetrating oil, clogs pores causes blackheads, respiratory irritant
Propylene Glycol (ethyl, butyl):Antifreeze - known carcinogenic and mutagenic agent - in our foods and skin care - not good also called rose ether, ethylene glycol, monophenyl ether
Parabens (butyl, ethyl, methyl and propyl): Petroleum based synthetic known toxic substances that have a weak estrogenic effect - common preservative ingredient
Paraffins: Petroleum distillates - hydrocarbons - known toxic effect -Not Good!
Phenoxyethanol: Preservative - most common- know toxic agent causes allergic reactions, harmful if swallowed or inhaled can cause eczema, reproductive defects
The last time we saw the ingredients on the following microdermabrasion products they were listed as:
- Youthful EssenceTM Microdermabrasion Cream (Susan Lucci) : micronized aluminum oxide, propylene glycol (anti-freeze), octyl palmitate (clogging oil ), wheat bran (no/wheat allergies), methyl and propylparabens (synthetic waxes), phenoxyethanol, artificial color and fragrance.
- Dermal Crystal CreamTM Professional Microdermabrasion : pumice, propylene glycol, methyl and propylparabens, artificial color.
- DermanewTM : propylene glycol (anti-freeze), octyl palmitate (clogging oil), propyl and methylparabens (synthetic waxes), and artificial coloring, phenoxyethanol.
- Enhance MeTM : sodium bicarbonate (no aluminum oxide crystals), silica, butylparaben (synthetic wax).
- EpicurenTM Micro/Derm: magnesium oxide microcrystals.
- Essential SkinTM Microdermabrasion Home System won't list ingredients.
- Exfoliating Body CreamTM : magnesium oxide or aluminum oxide crystals, propylene bead crystals, propylene glycol (anti-freeze), methyl and propylparabens.
- Great SkinTM Microdermabrasion Cream : cornstarch and magnesium oxide crystals (not true corundum crystal), phenoxyethanol.
- IskinTM : octyl palmitate (clogging oil), propylene glycol, wheat bran (no/wheat allergies), methyl and propylparabens, phenoxyethnol.
- Joey NYTM Microdermabrasion Facial Peel : parrafin (hard wax), paraffin, octyl palmitate (clogging oil), polyethylene, methyl and propylparabens.
- Lifestyle FascinationTM Microdermabrasion Scrub: phenoxyethanol, methyl and propylparabens, artificial color and fragrance, wheat bran.
- One TouchTM : pumice,butyl and propylene glycol, methyl and propylparabens.
- New Derma GenesisTM Crystals: Sodium Bicarbonate Crystals (not corundum crystals)
- Physician's ComplexTM Microdermabrasion Cream: magnesium oxide crystals (not true corundum crystal).
- PraiTM : magnesium oxide, cornstarch, propylene glycol.
- PretikaTM Microdermabrasion Spa : polyethelene beads, magnesium or aluminum oxide crystals, methyl and propylparabens.
- Professional Strength Microdermabrasion Cream ( Aluminum Oxide Crystals ) by Earthbound Beauty : propyl and methyl parabens (synthetic waxes),sodium bicarbonate ).
- TYKYTM : silica, magnesium ascorbyl phosphate, sodium bicarbonate, methyl and propylparabens.
-VisageTM:propylene beads (no aluminum oxide crystals), propylene glycol, methyl and propylparabens.
