Butylene And Propylene Glycol – Two Common Skin Care Ingredients Sevani NEVER Uses

Today, there are some skin care ingredients that while commonly used in a wide variety of beauty products available on the market, are still quite controversial.  High on this list –  Butylene Glycol and Propylene Glycol

Butylene Glycol serves as a humectant and is used by formulators to help hydrate your skin while Propylene Glycol is used as a stabilizer and binds products that contain both oil and water (almost all beauty products!) maintain a homogenous constituency instead of letting them separate as oil and water naturally want to otherwise.

On the surface, these products seem great and are of course very useful as far as creating skin care formulations.  This has made them incredibly popular and in fact, you’ll be hard pressed to find a beauty product withOUT Butylene and Propylene Glycol; unless you choose Sevani!

We don’t use either Butylene Glycol or Propylene Glycol in ANY of our formulations and we never will!

You see, several highly reliable sources claim that both Butylene and Propylene Glycol are  carcinogens, or chemicals that have been found to cause cancer.  And,  there’s no denying the list of “possible side effects” associated with these ingredients including skin irritation, contact dermatitis, and even urticaria; the presence of too many mast cells in the skin.

The cosmetics companies that use these ingredients justify their safety by saying that since the FDA approved them and they’re used in relatively low concentrations these problems won’t be an issue,.  Yet, many users, especially those with sensitive skin, often find that products with chemicals like Propylene and Butylene Glycol in them DO cause skin reactions and irritations that would suggest otherwise.

There’s no reason to even deal with “controversial” ingredients like these though when there are skin care manufacturers like Sevani that are 100% natural!  We never include ingredients like Butylenes or Propylenes in our products.  And, in fact, we’ve got an entire page on our site devoted to all the natural skin care ingredients we DO use so you can learn more about how we make Sevani positively pure AND positively powerful!

Plus we’re very passionate about helping people learn more about what natural ingredients can do and, why they want to avoid chemicals like Butylene and Propylene Glycol; especially since there are such fantastic non toxic alternatives!