How to identify hormone cosmetics

In life, many women spend a lot of money to buy cosmetics for their own use, because they think that the more expensive the cosmetics, the better the effect. There are also some cosmetics that can obviously make the face whiter after use. This is mostly because the cosmetics contain certain elements, which we often call hormone cosmetics. Although it can cause changes in human skin in a short period of time, long-term use can cause skin necrosis. So how do you judge hormone cosmetics?

There is currently no authoritative chemical analysis method for hormones, and it is not as simple and convenient as heavy metals and fluorescent whitening agents:

1. Try to avoid choosing products without any certification, certification or other certifications. The state now requires products to be registered. You can check whether the products on the market have been registered.

2. When choosing a product, you need to be rational about the manufacturer’s publicity. Those products that claim to be able to "whiten overnight" and "remove freckles in three days" without adding hormones, is it possible that big international companies don't have the technology to do so? Ladies, if you want to whiten your skin, please be patient.

3. If you use a certain product and find that your skin becomes noticeably smoother, whiter, and less red within a very short period of time (a few hours or a day), you should be suspicious; if you use it continuously for a period of time (more than 20 days) and once you stop using it, you develop symptoms such as redness, itching, acne-like dermatitis, blackheads, enlarged pores, and denser body hair, then you have really been "infected."

When faced with the overwhelming number of products on the market, especially the countless unheard-of products in the circle of friends, you should treat them rationally. Don't listen to the bragging of the upstream companies and don't easily believe the efficacy of advertisements. Products that have no whitening ingredients but have whitening effects must have problems. When choosing skin care products, you must strictly screen them from various aspects such as manufacturer, raw materials, ingredients, etc. I hope the above content will be helpful to everyone.

The Ministry of Health's regulations issued in 2007 clearly indicated the testing methods for dexamethasone and betamethasone. After several strict inspections in the market, it was rarely found that any business used dexamethasone and betamethasone. However, what the relevant departments did not expect was that savvy businesses had long since stopped using those older generation hormones and had evolved to using clobetasol propionate. The testing departments were still at the stage of spot-checking those weak hormones, greatly underestimating the level of market evolution.

The methods for detecting hormones are relatively simple, basically relying on high pressure liquid chromatography to separate the hormone components in cosmetics. The limitation of this method is that it can only detect known components but cannot identify unknown components.

In 2013, the Food and Drug Administration required all non-special-purpose cosmetics to be registered and strengthened the testing of 41 hormones. However, there are more than 41 types of glucocorticoids, and the current research direction of businesses is to find ways to add interfering ingredients to affect the test results.