Hydrogenated oils in skin care products
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Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:59 pm

Hi,

I did a search on this, but couldn't find anything related.

I'm still doing research for a natural/organic skin care line that will work for my skin and found that some of these products contain hydrogenated oils.

I read that hydrogenated oils causes free radicals on your skin and just in relation to hydrogenated oils in food, it seems obvious that it might not be good for your skin?...

But this is totally out of my league and I therefore would appreciate your input.

Many thanks!
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Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:13 am

Hi, I have been having the same question, with no luck on research of hydrogenated oils in beauty products, although you can go to this link with has some of the cautions against hydrogenated castor oil in skin care: http://www.ewg.org/reports/skindeep/report.php?type=INGREDIENT&id=63. I have really been wanting to try neovas copper peptide antioxidant serums although hydrogenated oil is one of the last ingredients, seems a little counterintuitive, but maybe the oil doesn't penetrate the skin or something. Also I don't understand why beauty products would use hydrogenated over regular oil, there must be some benifit, right????

Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:42 pm

Thanks for the link and I hear ya.

This is what I found on drhauschka dot com

Quote:

Hydrogenated oils are produced by adding hydrogen gas under high pressure to liquid oils so they will be semisolid at room temperature. Controlling the heat prevents creation of trans fatty acids.

Hydrogenation improves stability and texture.

Hydrogen is added to unsaturated oils by catalytic hydrogenation: adding hydrogen gas under high pressure to liquid vegetable oils. Hydrogenation is necessary to stabilize and firm the consistency of the lip and eye pencils. The process reduces the acidity, improves color and makes oils more resistant to oxidizing.

So I guess if it doesn't become transfat, it isn't harmful and used as a natural stabilizer among other things? hmm

Please help me out here, my head is spinning!

Thanks

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