At present, more and more pseudo-ingredient parties, demonizing the ingredient list, leading many consumers to talk about "rotten" discoloration, then there is such a question, preservatives really should not exist? Should cosmetics be added?
Why add preservatives? Simply put, it is used in cosmetics to prevent decay, which can inhibit the growth of bacteria and microorganisms, ensure the safety of cosmetics, and extend shelf life.
The "Cosmetic Safety Technical Specification" (2015 edition) stipulates that there are 51 preservatives that can be used in cosmetics, which supervise in detail the various problems of various preservatives, professional academic names, maximum allowable use concentrations, allowable use scope and restrictions, and the conditions of use and precautions that must be marked on the label.
It also clearly stipulates the total number of colonies of cosmetics, of which "can not be detected" are pathogenic bacteria, the specification requires that it cannot be sold if it does not meet the standard, and it is necessary to add preservatives if it wants to meet the standard.
The above can be concluded that the addition of preservatives that are reasonable and compliant with the regulations is beneficial and harmless.
Can cosmetics be "preservative-free"? Cosmetics claim to be "preservative-free" usually have the following two types:
1, skin care oil products, strong acid and alkali products, high alcohol content products, these extreme environments, not easy to breed microorganisms, completely free of water and nutrients can not add preservatives.
2, is to drill the provisions of the loophole, the use of off-balance sheet preservatives instead of the inside of the table preservatives. The state stipulates 51 kinds of "Cosmetic Quasi-use Preservatives Table", and the table is marked with "other substances with antimicrobial effects are not included in this table." "These ingredients that are not included in the table but have antiseptic activity are called off-balance sheet ingredients.
Off-balance sheet ingredients are not listed as preservatives on the ingredient list, but come in other forms, which is why many brands claim that their products are free of preservatives.
Due to the unregulated reasons, the stability and safety of the off-balance sheet preservative ingredient are not as safe and mature as the 51 kinds of preservatives in the table, so the on-balance sheet preservative is relatively safer.
From the inside and outside the table preservatives, it can be seen that this ingredient list is not omnipotent, the ingredients can not be divided into only advantages and disadvantages, a product's raw materials, preparation process, quality control and patented technology, these are not a light and fluttering ingredient list can be denied.
And the painstaking efforts of the formulator are not the ingredient introductions sorted out by the pseudo-ingredient party bloggers to the beautiful practice.
Ingredient party or consumers, we have to do is to look at the ingredients but not only the ingredients. Any groundless accusation that does not look at the concentration without looking at the regulation, as well as the extreme denial, is inappropriate.
There is no one-size-fits-all preservative, nor any experimental data to show that the safety of preservatives without preservatives and off-balance sheet preservatives is higher than that of the correspondingly regulated on-balance sheet preservatives, which are in the same gray area as pseudo-conceptual additions.
Preservatives should not be stigmatized, we should look at preservatives correctly and let it develop in a benign and healthy direction.