NATURE vs SCIENCE

Something I face every day with my clients is, “are natural cosmetics better than chemical?”
It’s a tough one. It's a bit like pitting mother against daughter; science is the product of nature.

EVERYTHING IS A CHEMICAL

The skincare scientists at Medik8 have always thought that chemicals have gotten kind of a hard deal. What physical object isn't made up of chemicals? Oxygen is a chemical, water is a chemical, natural extracts are made up of chemicals… I could go on. So really, the debate should be ‘natural vs synthetic’.

NATURAL ISN’T ALWAYS BETTER

However, it is a myth that natural ingredients are safer than synthetic ingredients. We are not dogmatic, but make the choice based on evidence. Whether an ingredient is synthetic or natural tells us nothing about whether it will be beneficial or toxic to the skin.

Natural products are usually made up of a very complex combination of chemicals. This can mean that it is more difficult to predict how natural ingredients will react with the skin. Synthetic ingredients usually only contain one or a small mixture of chemical constituents. This usually means it is easy to predict how they will react with the skin.

WE LOVE NATURE

The founder of Medik8 cites environmental campaigner Anita Roddick as his inspiration. Nature offers us a lot of gifts that are highly effective in skincare. Many effective and safe ingredients in skincare are found in nature, but in order to extract the part of an ingredient that works on the skin, it requires a scientific process. And this process not only ensures greater efficacy and purity, it also reduces the chance of reactions. Science is not the enemy. After all, it is science that has proven the powers of nature.

COMPASSIONATE SCIENTISTS

Medik8 strives to find a balance. They use a combination of the most well-researched and science-backed natural and synthetic ingredients to formulate their results-driven products.

What are your thoughts?