Why Olive Based Cleansers Are Better

There has been a lot of press of late on olive oil or olive derived ingredient cleansers, and we love to read and hear this as people are obviously catching on to what we have known for many years. Olive facial cleansers are far healthier for the skin than ones based with alcohol or petroleum products. Chemicals and synthetic ingredients are drying and irritating to the skin and it is always better to use an all-natural product than to put chemicals on your face.

Too many companies use cheap and nasty chemical cleansing & foaming agents, emulsifiers, and thickening additives without giving any care to the potential damage these ingredients might cause the end-user.

When you use products containing chemicals, these chemicals can enter your bloodstream as they can be absorbed through your pores. This is the equivalent to eating these products. When you stop to realize that skin care products and weed killers have ingredients in common, you begin to see the potential for danger that chemical based products pose.

Olive oil and olive derived ingredients contain properties which make it more closely compatible with the natural oil that our body produces than any other plant oil. It is an excellent source of phyto-nutrients,  which our cells lap up, healing antioxidants, is one of the best facial moisturizers for your skin, and balances the production of sebum in your skin, so that it cannot be too dry, or too oily.

Long before the idea came about for an olive facial cleanser the people of the Mediterranean were pressing olives for their precious juice. Olive oil has a rich history in the Mediterranean, where it has been far more than mere food. It has been used medicinally, it has played a role in religious rituals, and it has been used in soap-making for hundreds and hundreds of years. The oldest surviving olive oil amphorae dates back to the early Minoan times of 3500 BC and some of the presses that date back to the Roman period are still in use today.

We at Skin Nutrition have understood the benefits of olive derived ingredients since inception, and not only use them in both of our facial cleansers, but we use them in nearly every topical skin care product we make and have made from day 1. We do not use chemical cleansing & foaming agents, emulsifiers, and thickening additives; we only use all natural ingredients, which include Extra Virgin Olive  Oil,    Olivem 1000, 800, and 400.

Look for these ingredients the next time you look at a label of an olive based cleanser or skin care product.

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