Skincare

I have the privilege to work with skincare products and although I am not a chemist or a product developer I have been involved in several product development processes and have learned a thing or two about ingredients, good and bad. There is a wave of organic, 100% natural and pure products etc. and as a consumer it can be quite challenging to really understand what is what and perhaps more importantly who is bullshitting with the "natural part" and who is not. Now that I am pregnant I try to be extra careful with what I use in the bathroom. I have always had sensitive and allergic skin so I have had to think about these things way before my pregnancies. Some of the products that I use today are Ecocert skincare products made in Finland, the only ones available actually, i.e. not only do I choose products that are Ecocertified but also products that are made in Finland, win-win products with other words.

What are Ecocert skincare products? Ecocert skincare products are products where 99,2% of the total ingredients stem from Organic Farming, only a small percentage of the ingredients are synthetic, i.e. not natural. Ecocert is a French organisation that carries out the cerfitication of the products, i.e the certification process is carried out externally from the company.

There is a whole debate going on whether synthetic ingredients are or are not bad for us, some are, yes, but far from all. When choosing products one should also consider not only your own body and how the various ingredients can have an effect on you, but also how the product effects nature, what happens to the product once it goes down the drain (literally speaking)? It is also important to know that not all of us have skin that tolerate natural ingredients, on the contrary the likelihood that a product with natural ingredients cause an allergic reaction is perhaps somewhat larger than in a product that is all synthetic, nevertheless it is worth a try.

The Ecocert products that I currently use are;
1) vivisanté natural skin - skin oil
2) vivisanté natural skin - facial oil
3) vivisanté natural skin - facial cream
4) vivisanté natural skin - cleansing gel
5) vivisanté natural skin - body lotion

These are all absolutely delicious and fantastic products and can be purchased from http://www.vivisante.com/shop/Catalog/Series/natural.

I also use;
1) Dermonature Shower Gel (Ecocert)
2) Primo Body Oil

Primo Body Oil saved my belly from stretchmarks during my first pregnancy and I cannot live without this product, it does not have a certificate of some sort but is made out of a mix of different oils, these products can be purchased from http://www.dermoshop.com.

Something else that is great with these products is that they are NOT crazy expensive like so many other products out there.