What ingredients should I look for in skin care products?

The best anti-aging ingredients on the market today are:

• DMAE
• Hyaluronic Acid
• Ascorbyl Palmitate
• Niacinamide
• Rooibos Extract
• Alpha Lipoic Acid
• Carrot Oil
• Frankincense Essential Oil
• Jasmine Absolute

There are a number of ingredients to look for when evaluating medical skin care products: Vitamin C/E, growth factor, green tea, copper, various alpha hydroxy acids, etc.

Overall, it really depends on what outcome you are looking for.

I recommend that you look for natural skincare ingredients that you would recognise such as Vitamins A, C and E, wheat protein, marine fennel, etc. – all ingredients that you would find in the Moor Spa products as well as the moor and moor water itself.

Also, we would recommend that you look for the BUAV stamp of approval, which promotes cruelty-free beauty.

Ingredients such as the essential oils of Green Tea, Spironila and Myrhh are generally great to help free radicals and aid the effects of aging on the skin. Aloe vera and honey are also great ingredients to look out for, as they are great in healing and soothing the skin, ideal to apply on the remnants of a spot!

Obviously ‘natural’ doesn’t always equal ‘good’ as some of the most poisonous substances, such as arsenic and cyanide are natural – but in terms of skincare, nature really does provide the very best skincare ingredients without needing to alter chemical structures or modify the genetic code of plants to achieve outstanding skin-improving results.

In fact, genetically modifying plants always has an adverse knock-on effect within the environment – and who knows what the long-term health risks are? We simply don’t know as they haven’t withstood the test of time in the way botanicals have.