Beautiful packaging, excellent marketing, bloggers raving about it, influencers can’t get enough of it, but is it worth the price tag and what exactly is in that bottle?

May, 2019

Did you know that the first 3 ingredients on your ingredient list (INCI) form the bulk of your product, with the majority of your product being the first ingredient alone?.  It is very common to have one or more of the following oils as the main ingredient in an expensive beauty product; grape seed oil, sunflower oil or safflower oil (thistle oil).

The reason that these oils are used is that they are abundant and therefore very cheap to formulate with.  The problem with these oils is that they oxidize very quickly, making the product go off (rancid), even with an antioxidant added.  This type of rancid product is detrimental to the skin because it produces free radicals that lead to chain reactions which ultimately damage the skins cells and basically accelerate the ageing process

The whole purpose of making beauty products is to create antioxidant rich blends with beautiful, exquisite, rare ingredients, that are effective in offering superior benefits to the skin, and I just don’t see a product with one of these oils as the main ingredient, doing that.

I am not saying that these oils are not nutritious, because they are, but if you are paying a high price tag then these ingredients should not be the first that you find.

I have come across many skincare products (body/face oils, serums, creams and scrubs) in the market place that were completely rancid and should not be used on the skin – but often only an expert can spot this.  I literally can smell rancid oil even with the lid on (thanks to my olio education journey in Italy)

At SCO we do not use bulk ingredients to fill up our formulas. Instead we make every single ingredient in our formulas count, so you will never find any of those oils as the main ingredient nor anywhere near the top of our ingredients list for that matter.