How to choose a children's make-up: 6 important rules

Counters of children's shops littered with boxes painted with lip gloss, shadows and varnish ...
- Even high-quality children's cosmetics contain unsafe chemical substances, so doctors are advised to use it for children under the age of 10 - 12 years - warns cosmetologist Olga Romanova. - It's all about the peculiarities of children's skin. It is not only tender:

- In children very weak protective function of the skin. A top stratum corneum - twice thinner than an adult human.

- In the skin of 5-10-year bonds weak local immunity, it easily picks up the infection. Therefore, it is important to children's skin properly and regularly cleaned, which is already there with lipstick powder ...

- Also, the baby's skin imperfect mechanism for retaining moisture. Therefore, it is prone to dryness, irritation.

- And she has high absorbency. When the skin get chemicals (in the "dekorativke" their mass), they immediately find themselves in the inside of the body.

If you still go on about it and decide to buy a cosmetic set. What to look for.

1.   Children cosmetics should not contain mineral oil, industrial oil - on the labels denote its Mineral Oil. It is obtained by distillation of petroleum. The oil forms a waterproof film, under which the skin ceases to breathe. It slows the growth and development of cells. So that adults such cosmetics is also better not to use.

2.   It should be pointed out that the anti-inflammatory agent and anti-allergy properties.

3 . The more natural ingredients in the composition, so it is better and safer to plant extracts, oils (almond oil, jojoba oil, shea butter), vitamins (A, D, C, E), glycerol, beeswax.

4.   Nail polish even water-based can not be used for children up to 6 years.

5.   If your child loves to paint the face, better buy a children's make-up - Russian production, not the Chinese. Suitable for children from 3 years. It is a fat-based, it is not absorbed into the skin and is easily washed off. And it makes it much brighter express dityu accumulated within the "creative." After all, a girl wants to make up the face is not so much in imitation of her mother as a trial basis. He wants to try to be someone else!

6.   Instead of hairspray to fix the children's hair much greener sweet water poured into a spray bottle. Suffice it to 2 teaspoons per cup of water.

Source

Healthy Child

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