10 facts about what is made of modern cosmetics (11 photos) Bashny.Net

If you use cosmetics (and you, I'm using them at least sometimes), you will be interested to learn from what they may contain. In ancient times they were made, so that people could get the big problems with the skin, and even die, in our time made a little higher quality.



 
1. Used cooking oil



Scientists at the laboratories of various cosmetic companies have found that when a specific treatment of waste vegetable oil you can get a certain substance, which has an active cosmetic effect. This effect is the regeneration of skin cells and its moderate rejuvenation. Now many of the cosmetic companies are using this cheap ingredient in the manufacture of its products, which have contracts with fast food chains and cafes.

2. The extract of pepper



Who would have thought that an ordinary bitter cayenne pepper, is used in cooking spicy food and gas cans to scare the bullies, can be used for cosmetic purposes? Its active ingredient, capsaicin, is "responsible" for the unpleasant burning sensation on contact with the skin of pepper, used in the manufacture of lipstick. If you do it when applied to the lips feel slight tingling, then the most likely to blame for that hot peppers, lipstick gave her component. This lipstick is advisable to keep away from eyes.

3. Chicken bone marrow



This component unromantic - only one of a long series of similar elements of animal origin. The bone marrow contains a large amount of glucosamine - an organic substance that stimulates the production of new skin cells and improvement of existing structures. Another useful component of the bone marrow is an anti-inflammatory, so it is often used for the production of humidifiers / softeners skin and face creams.

4. fish scales



The list of cosmetic products you use are those who promise to "shine" and "flicker"? Maybe uluchshayushie reflections or anything else like that? Hairspray, polish, lipstick? With a high probability to achieve these dramatic effects used substances from the fish scales that give cosmetics "pearlescent" effect. The most common source for these substances is herring, which is why it is considered the most common commercial fish is used not only in food.

5. Powder cochineal



Most likely in the list of ingredients of your lipstick is explicitly specified koshenilnaya powder, but may be, for example, carmine or carminic acid. Especially likely presence of cochineal in the media, have a pronounced red, such as lipsticks. To prepare this component bugs cochineal first scalded, then dried and pulverized to a fine powder, which is extracted from red pigment, and it has added to many cosmetic products, juices, jellies and even candy

6. White amber



It sounds very noble, but in fact is a gray or dark powder extracted from the digestive systems of whales, actually dried bile. Although the origin of the smell of amber is quite pleasant, even sweet, which leads to its frequent use in the perfume industry. Amber is also famous for the fact that he can keep the odor molecules in the skin, increasing the duration of the perfume. However, now often used instead of amber of its synthetic substitutes, but in some lines of cosmetics she has encountered.

7. Shellfish algae



Diatomite, or so-called rock flour, is a sedimentary rock composed of the shells of tiny diatoms. It consists primarily of silica and some cosmetic companies are made on its basis mask and facial cleansers. That means, they say, well cleaned pores and skin is cleansed of blackheads and other misunderstandings.

8. Nightingale droppings



One of the most expensive in the world of cosmetics is made on the basis of a bird, or rather nightingale droppings. Initially, a similar tool used by Japanese geishas and kabuki actors to clean the face by a thick layer of makeup, as well as a clarifying agent. Now, such a mask can be purchased at stores in London for any to135 pounds. Its action is based on the presence of the manure, particularly Nightingale, a large amount of nitrogen, and so-called enzyme guanine (from "guano"), which in addition to cleaning the skin helps fight against harmful bacteria. So the nightingale droppings - a kind of "bleach" the skin. Of course, it passes the heat treatment, and in ancient times dung applied to the face, so to speak, in its original form

9. excrement snails



Many well-known companies brands of humidifiers are a key component of the waste products of certain species of snails. It is also the raw material used for production of anti-scarring, stretch marks and acne. Often excrement snails are used for the manufacture of anti-aging creams, such as in a cream Michael Todd Cosmetics KNUAnti-AgingTri Complex, which costs more than 135 dollars. As stated on the manufacturer's website, thanks to the efforts of the snail cream on the skin, regenerating it and helping to prolong a youth. I do not know, it prolongs youth, or not, but it would be better for women not to think of something made from your favorite beauty products.

10. Children's foreskin



Some companies, for example, Skinmedica and Vavelta, used for the manufacture of its anti-aging pieces of skin that remain after circumcision in children, which is common in the "civilized" world. Unknown amount of raw materials required for the preparation of a large number of anti-wrinkle creams and aging, and the company's representatives claim that using their old stocks, growing with them the necessary cells, which are for the manufacture of creams.

-source: Fishki net