Cosmetic health products help enhance and preserve the appearance of skin, hair, and nails while also increasing self-confidence and wellbeing.
Personal care products that fit both cosmetic and drug categories, like anti-dandruff shampoos and treatments, must be used according to their labels and instructions for use.
Skin Care
An array of skin products exists for washing, soothing, moisturizing, reinforcing and treating the skin. Their effects vary widely and many come with extravagant claims about how effective they will be at changing its characteristics or functions. As their ingredients come into direct contact with tissues in need of repair, these vehicles and ingredients may have profound effects that alter these characteristics and functions in ways unthinkable without them.
Before mass marketing existed, women made their own homemade preparations from recipes obtained through friends or women’s magazines. Patent medicines from the 1800s claimed to remove freckles, calm rashes and sunburns, make skin soft, smooth, and beautiful.
Today’s dermatological experts recommend tailored regimens of products designed to address specific concerns in an esthetically pleasing system, in order to maximize benefits. Cosmeceuticals are combination products containing cosmetics and biologically active ingredients; similar benefits can also be gained by taking oral nutritional supplements called “nutricosmetics.”
Hair Care
An effective haircare routine can help you meet your cosmetic health goals – particularly if it uses natural ingredients. Consider choosing products containing almond, coconut, avocado, shea and grape seed oils and butters; additionally check to ensure the ingredients do not include sulfates, parabens or synthetic fragrances and dyes that could harm your hair or cause other potential side effects.
Selecting a high-quality hair brush is also key. Look for one made of natural materials and designed to gently yet effectively extract hair from the scalp without damaging it.
Bath & Body
Bath and body products can help achieve cosmetic health goals by leaving skin feeling smooth and rejuvenated. With so many scents to choose from – such as fruity, floral or exotic fragrances – there’s sure to be one perfect for you. Just keep in mind that each body has different chemical requirements, so when selecting products it is wise to test on a small area first before making regular purchases.
Bath & Body Works, an American retailer, offers an expansive selection of bath and body products, such as soaps and sanitizers, fragrance mists, candles and home fragrances, as well as other bath-related goods. A subsidiary of L Brands Inc – which also owns Victoria’s Secret – it boasts products like soaps and sanitizers to fragrance mists for candles & home fragrances to other bath-related goods.
Makeup
Makeup products offer many uses to help meet cosmetic health goals, from brightening skin to camouflaging or augmenting features and increasing femininity or beauty by altering facial features like the eyes, lips and nails.
Cosmetics do not fall under the same regulation as industrial chemicals; the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) oversees cosmetic products that qualify as medicines or are promoted as having therapeutic benefits, including most skin-whitening lotions, primary sunscreens and disinfectants, blood products as well as others that might fall into this category.
All cosmetics must be manufactured, produced, preserved, packed and stored under clean conditions. Furthermore, they should be clearly labelled with key information such as their product name and description, ingredients list, manufacturing date or expiry date, company address in Singapore as well as adverse reaction monitoring program for healthcare professionals and international regulatory partners to spot potentially unsafe cosmetic products. At HSA Singapore we conduct our own adverse reaction monitoring programme so healthcare providers and regulatory partners can detect signals of potentially unsafe cosmetic products through this initiative.
