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Now let's talk about why commercial products are harsher on your skin. Many commercial
products contain alcohols that dry out your skin and they also contain the elusive ingredient,
fragrance, and most of the time you don't know what they're actually using for fragrance.
And this can be very harsh on sensitive skin especially, but just about any skin
can have a problem with certain ingredients that are used for fragrance. Many preservatives
that are used in commercial products can also dry the skin and also be very harsh for sensitive
skin. Some chemicals that are used that make cleansers have that sudsing property, are
very drying to skin and many people are also sensitive to those chemicals as well. A lot
of the ingredients, I'm sure many of you know, are very chemical sounding and it's hard to
tell exactly what those ingredients are. So I would recommend going to your favorite search
engine and just entering in the ingredient information and see what it brings up, as
far as what the ingredient actually does for your skin, and also the problems that it can
cause for your skin. I would also recommend that if it doesn't really seem to be beneficial
to your skin, you probably don't need to use it.