Nature is good. Nature provided the human race with everything it thought it could need, and continues to provide humanity with most of its needs. Whenever a product is labeled as being natural, it is automatically assumed to be better than its artificial counterparts. There is a common belief that natural beauty products are better than their chemical opposites, or are less likely to cause side effects, or are better for the skin.
Whether or not this is actually true is something that most people who use natural cosmetics don’t bother to verify by talking to a medical professional. That, in the end, would be the fundamental question on this matter. Are natural beauty products inherently better than their pharmaceutical
counterparts?
The actual answer is no. A chemical, whether made in a lab or extracted from some obscure Tibetan herb, is still a chemical.
Yes, it is true that some people find natural beauty products work better for their skin and their bodies, but that does not mean that it will be the same case as everyone else. The one thing that neither synthetic cosmetics, nor their natural counterparts, pay too much attention to is...