How to choose herbal cosmetics

The main factor for choosing cosmetics is a skin type: dry, greasy, sensitive or combination skin type. The effective herbal components will be different for every skin type:

• For dry skin. Usual issues for this skin type are the toneless color, exfoliating, tightness. Cream for dry skin should effectively nourish and moisturize skin, the active components are vitamins, sodium hyaluronate, thermal water, herbal extracts.
• Greasy and combination skin is prone to widened pores and oily surface, which is concerned to oil glands overactivity, so the oil glands functioning regulation is the main objective of skin care for this type of skin. It is important for cream not to depress oil glands activity but regulate it. Recommended herbal components for greasy skin are ginseng, chamomile and calendula extracts, vitamin complex with vitamin C predominance, fruit acid complex.
• Sensitive skin that overreacts to different external influences and internal changes, so even a hypoallergic herbal skin cream should be selected very carefully. Among the safe ingredients for sensitive skin are D-panthenol, vitamin complex with vitamin P predomination, hypoallergic herbal essences and oils.

Natural herbal cream efficiency is also caused by elastin, collagen lanolin, allantoin and hyaluronic, lactic and stearic acids among its ingredients.

Herbal based creams by Repharm

Herbal based creams by Repharm

The cosmetic products by Repharm are presented by several series like:

• Special calcium-regulating products that include face creams, body creams, hand, feet, eye creams etc. of different use like day creams, night creams, nourishing, toning, moisturizing etc. The main distinctive feature of this series is bisphosphonate complex in the cream composition. Bisphosphonates act as a skin metabolic regulator, which slows down aging and wrinkle developing, activates epidermis cells regeneration. Among the active ingredients there are extracts of calendula, chamomile, clover, hawthorn and peony, cocoa butter, tea tree oil, olive and grape oils, hyaluronic, citric and succinic acids, collagen, vitamin complex.
• Special herbal-based series that contains day and night creams for sensitive skin, lifting creams, anticellulite creams etc. The products of this series are hypoallergic and use only natural components like tea tree oil, lavender oil, lemon, geranium, eucalypt, cedar, sage, kelp extract, horse chestnut, succinic and malic acids, flavonoids, carotene, vitamins etc.

Besides that, the Repharm company produces natural hair stimulating products, baby cosmetics and a series of peptide cosmetics.

Warning!

The cream contains highly concentrated caffeine for boosting anti-cellulite effect, which may promote crystal whiskers. They instantly dissolve while rubbing the cream in the skin.

Anticellulite massage cream choice criteria

The main reason for the anticellulite cream choice is its composition, because only correctly selected ingredients may give the desired effect. The following ingredients are recommended:

• Herbal extracts like horse chestnut, horse tail, ivy, hawthorn, hypericum, kelp. All of them promote removal of toxins and waste, which cause the orange peel developing. Ivy decongests, horse chestnut strengthens blood vessels and activates fibroblasts functioning, horsetail, hawthorn and hypericum reduce fat depositing;
• Essential oils of orange, grapefruit, lemon, bergamot, lavender, rosemary, cinnamon and juniper drain liquid excess, smoothen orange peel, lift, nourish and moisturize skin and restore its lipid barrier function;
• Vitamin complex of vitamins A, B, E, C that boosts intracellular metabolism, encourage collagen production, strengthen blood vessels, remove waste and make skin firm and elastic.
• Fat burning and heating ingredients like red pepper, xanthyl, camphor, which boosts blood circulation and metabolic processes, reduce fat deposits.
• Caffeine and cocoa that boosts metabolic processes and encourage useful ingredients absorption.
• Aminophylline that balances skin respiratory, boosts fat breakdown, widen blood vessels.

Besides that, in the anticellulite massage cream may be used fat acids, mineral salts and some other ingredients providing lipolytic effect. A very important criterium for anticellulite cream choice is its texture. For summer light moisturizing creams are more suitable, for winter it is better to use more fatty creams with the heating effect.

As well as for other cosmetic products, good anticellulite cream should not contain any parabens, mineral oils, spirit, aggressive odorants etc.

Anticellulite massage cream Repharm

Anticellulite massage cream Repharm is one of a kind cosmetic product, which contains not only natural components for the orange peel reducing, but Bisphosphonic complex, a natural metabolic processes regulator. It restores microelements balance and regenerates skin. The active anticellulite components are lemon and eucalypt essential oils, kelp extract, horse chestnut, caffeine, camphor. This cream boosts the effect of anticellulite massage and may be used as a separate cosmetic means for orange peel reducing.