How to read cosmetic product labels

Now I will explain the details that make the difference between one product and another.

Let's start with the most important thing.

But what's inside a cosmetic product?

To find out, you need to turn the bottle and read the ingredients or the INCI.

INCI stands for "International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients" and is a code used in Europe, USA, Russia, Brazil, Canada, and South Africa.

It serves to indicate the ingredients of a cosmetic product, listed in descending order, taking into account their concentration.

At the top of the list are the substances with the highest concentration. Many times we find incomprehensible names, and other times we find them in Latin.

When substances are listed with their Latin name, it means that they have been included in their pure form, without undergoing any chemical modification.

This is the case for vegetable oils and natural ingredients: Latin names refer to botanical ingredients. If there is an asterisk * it means that the ingredient comes from organic farming: it could be an organic cosmetic product.

All Shazy products contain ingredients from organic farming.

Ingredients resulting from chemical synthesis are written in English or with numerical codes that identify artificial colorants such as "Color Index", which includes the abbreviation "CI" followed by a 5-digit numerical series.

Today, a good product with a good INCI must respect the environment and should not contain ingredients like SLES and SLS, which are surfactants (the cleansing base) derived from petroleum refining, as in the case of Sodium laureth sulfate, which does give a feeling of cleanliness but is highly polluting.

Other things to read are:

Who produces or markets it.

Its shelf life once opened.

How to use it.

Manufacturing batch.

Country of origin.

Now you can go and peek at the labels of the products you use for your beauty routine.