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Does Good Skin Care Treatment Have to Be Expensive?

02/08/2008

Although there is some truth to ‘you get what you pay for’, it can be taken too far. There’s not much proof that a skin care product costing $250 will do more for you than one that costs $25 – if any clinical studies were done at all you would probably find evidence that they both worked, or didn’t. However, it is probably true that a bottle of lotion that costs $3.00 may be less effective. How does cost affect the quality of skin care treatment products?

Some companies price their products higher simply because they can: They limit their sale to high end stores, they already have a reputation, or they have celebrity endorsements – something that will justify charging, and spending, more money, but does not necessarily guarantee the quality of the product.

Other products use ingredients that are more expensive to produce and difficult to preserve. Natural skin care treatment products, for example, often contain ingredients you can’t simply make in a lab with chemicals. They contain aloe vera or other organic substances, organic (rather than synthesized) vitamins, herbal substances, and so on, that are more labor intensive to produce.

Also, because many manufacturers of natural products want to keep them as close to natural as possible, the products contain only minimal amounts of the preservatives and other chemicals that give them a longer shelf life and ensure integrity of texture. Under these circumstances, the products have to be manufactured in smaller batches since they’re not going to last on the shelves. This, of course, adds to the expense because the manufacturers can’t get the price break available if you buy in very large quantities.

That’s why many natural skin care treatment products – and other products – in health food stores tend to be more expensive.

Also, if you check the ingredients of the very inexpensive skin care treatment products, you’re likely to find toxic ingredients like mineral oil, petroleum, sodium laurel or laureth sulfate, propylene glycol and other substances that are actually likely to create more skin problems than they resolve – in addition to creating other health problems. But these substances are inexpensive, readily available and have been included in skin care treatment products for so long that only those who have done a considerable amount of research are likely to know that these ingredients can cause a problem. These products can often make the skin feel good and provide some temporary relief, but once you wash them off, your skin will be in the same condition it was in before you used the product. In other words, the product felt good, not your skin.

The long and short of it is this: what matters most are the ingredients, not the price. If you can find products that are relatively inexpensive and actually do the job – a dry skin care product that actually resolves dry skin instead of covering it up, for example - give it a try. A little searching around should come up with good natural skin care treatment products that are effective, contain natural ingredients, and don’t break the bank.

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