Have you ever wondered why one cream costs $15 vs. another at $50? Granted, some pricing has to do with name branding, but it often also has to do with the amount of an ingredient within that cream. The same goes for our foods that we buy- when buying a juice, we already know that the earlier an ingredient is listed, the more of it there is in that juice; so if you’re the type to read your food labels, just think of how you’d feel if you saw sugar listed as the first ingredient in your choice of juice. I for one, would probably put it back down on the shelf and search for a healthier juice. If you’re like me, then you might also want to be aware of what you put on your face. It’s absolutely safe to assume that the same ideology applies to creams.
When considering the purchase of a cream, you really should read the label list (which is required to be printed on the product by Canadian law), and deduce which ingredients are best for you, and where the cream ingredient list chronologically places that ingredient. Typically, you have three dimensions of cream products: (1) pharmacy brand creams, (2) aesthetic brand creams, and (3) dermatological brand creams. Often, the brands are specifically targeted to one of the three classifications, and therefore, do not overlap.
Pharmacy brand creams are often not that fabulous because their advertised ingredient on their packaging is often one of the last ingredients listed in their chemical make-up. This is actually why you can typically find creams for a relatively inexpensive price, but as a pro, they are conveniently widely available. While more difficult to get since you’ll need to work with spa hours / days, the aesthetic brands offer a higher concentration of ingredients which produce better results. While for example, a cream promotes calcium as its wonder ingredient, but it actually only lists calcium as its 19th ingredient, so we can deduce that calcium doesn’t actually have a very big role to play in the cream’s make-up, and is actually part of a marketing ploy: http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/product.php?prod_id=100167 . Dermatological brand creams often have the highest concentration of its active ingredient(s); the only difference is that you need access to a doctor, and in most cases, a prescription to get it.
All in all, while you should always be skeptical about price-inflated creams, you should equally be concerned with price-deflated creams; but above all, you should look beyond price to see what you’re actually purchasing- and the ingredients list is always on your side to help you come to your own decision.
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