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Skin care is a massive industry, and a competitive one at that.
New companies are popping up all the time and lots are finding relative success by selling online and not having to spend money on expensive shops.

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 who were given basic moisturizer where also used in the study.

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. A staggering 7 out of 10 products had no positive effects on skin and even more alarming, 5 out of 10 products actually had harmful effects. The recorded side-effects included rashes, itching, tightness, dryness and even blistering.

One expected result that the study did show however was that the more expensive products had the most benefit to the skin. Interestingly, there were only positive effects recorded from the products that featured in the top 20% in terms of purchase cost. The overruling advice from this research has to be to do your research and only buy the highest quality skin care products you can. Also make sure you only buy from reputable companies such as this London spa. Secondly, if you are new to using a certain product make sure you test on it on small area of skin on the arm first to see how it reacts, before you apply to the face or on large areas of skin.