Skin care is big businesses these days, with massive amounts of companies all competing for visibility and market share.
There are now thousands of different offerings from various different companies, many of which have side stepped the expensive start up costs by being based completely online.

The downside of this of course is that almost anyone can set up shop online and there is very little standard control, which goes some way to explain why Norwegian experts discovered that 50% of the online offering where actually bad for you.

Over 400 products were sampled from a cross section of sellers across the net and included everything from supermarket brands, foreign products and even exclusive professional offerings. There were both facial care and hand care products sampled, and they were all tested extensively on various types of skin and measured on their effectiveness, ease of use and side effects. A control group were given a very basic cream that had no active ingredients.

The findings of the study gave some shock results and gave a clear indication of just how many poor quality products are available on the internet. Firstly the study found that around 70% of the products did not give any benefits to the user, and what is more, over 50% of the products had negative side effects. Among the harmful effects were burning, dryness, acne, and even hair loss.

Another finding, which may not come as so much of a surprise, was that those products at the top of the price range benefited the skin most. In actual fact, in term of price, those products that were in the top 25% showed only positive effects, with no negatives recorded. The overruling advice from this research has to be to do your research and only buy the highest quality skin care products possible. Further more, only get you skin care products from places you can trust and who have been trading for a long time such as this spa in London.Lastly, before you use any skin care product on the face or on sensitive areas, make sure you test it first on the lower arm or leg, which is unlikely to cause you any risk if there are side effects.