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Herbal Skin Care
People today are becoming ever more interested in herbal skin care
and herbal treatment for the skin. However, there really is nothing
new about these types of all-natural treatments. Herbal skin care
was, after all, the original skin care. So how did herbal treatment
for the skin fall out of fashion, since the fact that it was
practiced for thousands of years gives us a testament to its
efficacy, as does people's increasing newly discovered interest in
it?
Well, for one thing, the poorer classes of people did not have the
access to all of the secrets of herbal skin care treatment that the
aristocracy and the merchant princes had. They knew the basics, but
they did not have all of the higher classes' knowledge. Therefore,
when the bourgeoisie ascended and the middle class became the
dominant class in terms of numbers and government representation,
more people than ever before wanted access to the "inner secrets" of
herbal treatment for the skin. This meant that skin care creams and
formulae were going to have to become commercialized and mass
produced.
Mass production certainly has some benefits, but there is a dark
side to it, too. One dark aspect of it is the tendency of mass
production to cheapen things and make them more "vulgar". Another
problem with mass production is that it tends to make people lazy.
So, when those who are making things start becoming more interested
in finding cheap ingredients and materials, and when people who
could make those things themselves don't feel like they have the
time and so let those cheap manufacturers do it all for them, the
result is often an ineffective product. As skin care become mass
produced, people who did not have access to thousands of years of
tradition started believing that synthetic, lab-created ingredients
or cheap derivatives of natural products could make better skin care
products for people. "Who needs herbal treatments?", they thought to
themselves.
The problem, of course, is that they were dead wrong. Synthetic skin
treatment creams not only don't work, they typically are actually
harmful. They can and do cause everything from acne and blackheads
to skin flaking to skin cancer. They can even cause other health
problems beyond skin problems, since substances slathered upon the
skin eventually get absorbed into the body.
So now, as science has been advancing and as people have become
disgruntled with these worthless, toxic creams and oils, herbal skin
care and herbal treatment for the skin are in, and now they are
becoming the commercialized products. But this time, the people
manufacturing them know a lot more about what they are doing. They
are making scientifically formulated creams that contain only
organic ingredients that interact synergistically with each other.
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