Beauty products are
everywhere! Whether it is cosmetic, whitening or cleansing products, which user
can choose from and satisfy her needs. Lotion is a beauty product that is
applied to skin, which benefits the user. Lotion can be in medicinal form
sometimes. In fact before lotion became popular as a beauty product it was
known years and years ago as a drug. Lotion has many uses. It can be used for
dry skin problem, as whitening product, as moisturizer, sunblock, nourishment
for the skin or even as discussed above as medicine.
Examples of Lotions
Commercially Available
Skin White Lotions
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SkinWhite Advanced Whitening Lotion Glutathione +
Vitamin C SPF 20
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SkinWhite Classic Whitening Lotion SPF 20
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SkinWhite Classic Whitening Lotion Hydrating
with Lycopene
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SkinWhite Advanced Whitening Lotion
PowerWhitening SPF 20
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SkinWhite Classic Whitening Lotion SPF 10
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SkinWhite Naturals Whitening Lotion Papaya Milk SPF
10
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SkinWhite Advanced Whitening Lotion Glutathione
+ Vitamin C SPF 20
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SkinWhite Advanced Whitening Lotion Kojic Acid SPF
20
Nivea Lotions
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Nivea Express Hydration Lotion - formula with
HYDRA IQ technology
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Nivea In Shower Body Lotion
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In Shower Body Lotion - Enriched with Sea
Minerals
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Nivea UV Protect - Vitamin E and Hydra IQ
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Nivea Firming Body Lotion Q10 Plus
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Nivea Whitening Cell Repair & Protect for
Men - Hydra IQ, Vitamin E and White Bio-Active Formula
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Nivea Revitalizing Body Lotion – Vitamin E
Dove Lotion
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Dove Cream Oil Shea Butter Body Lotion
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Dove Cream Oil Intensive Body Lotion
Vaseline Lotions
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Vaseline Intensive Care Essential Healing Lotion
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Vaseline Intensive Care Advanced Repair
Fragrance Free Lotion
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Vaseline Intensive Care Advanced Repair Lightly
Scented Lotion
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Vaseline Intensive Care Aloe Soothe Lotion
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Vaseline Intensive Care Cocoa Radiant Lotion
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Vaseline Intensive Care Cocoa Radiant Deep Conditioning Cream
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Vaseline Intensive Care Cocoa Radiant Body Gel
Oil
Jergens Lotions
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Jergens Shea Beauty Oil
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Jergens Shea Butter Deep Conditioning
Moisturizer
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Jergens Ultra Healing Extra Dry Skin Moisturizer
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Jergens Original Scent Dry Skin Moisturizer
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Jergens Daily Moisture Dry Skin Moisturizer
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Jergens Daily Moisture Fragrance Free Dry Skin
Moisturizer
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Jergens Skin Firming Toning Moisturizer
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Jergens Soothing Aloe Refreshing Moisturizer
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Jergens Overnight Repair Nightly Restoring
Moisturizer
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Jergens Age Defying Multi-vitamin Moisturizer
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Jergens Skin Smoothing Gentle Exfoliating
Moisturizer
GlutaWhite C Lotion – Papaya and Gluthathione
Silka Papaya Skin Whitening Lotion
Advantage of Lotion:
1. It can moisturize dry skin
which helps to retain moisture of the skin. It prevents the skin from scaling
and cracking.
2. It can nourish the skin
with incorporation of vitamins within it.
3. Prevents the harmful UV
rays from the sun to penetrate the skin by absorbing or refracting the rays
with the help of opacifying agent.
4. It can help to whiten the
skin as the resulting effect of sunscreen.
5. Use to treat some skin
disease.
6. Easily to apply.
Disadvantage:
1. Oily, sticky and
uncomfortable sometimes, especially when skin perspires much.
2. Allergies can form.
3. Expensive and easily to
consume.
4. If application does not
follow, problems may occur.
5. Frequent reapplying for use
as sunblock.
Types of Lotion
1. Moisturizer Lotion – Use to
help moisturize dry skin. It is much needed by individuals living in cold
climate areas. As lotion moisturizes the skin, the scaling and cracking can be
prevented. Thus, skin comes back to its firmness which gives smooth and soft
feeling. Lotions are added with aloe vera extract, vitamin E, glycerin,
chamomile extract and other herbal extracts as moisturizing agent.
2. Sunblock or SPF Lotion – it
is a lotion for protecting the skin from damaging sun’s UV rays. Lotion is
added with opacifying agent or agents that can reflect or absorption UV rays.
It is a supplementary help to melanin which is the sun protecting cells in the
skin. Melanin is responsible for darkening of skin and dark spots, moreover,
UVA and UVB are responsible for abnormal skin aging, wrinkles and etc. Lotion
can prevent the formation of skin cancer when use regularly. Examples of
opacifying or sunscreen agents are tinanium oxide, zinc oxide, octocrylene,
avovenzole and etc. The higher the SPF number is the higher the protection you
get against the UV.
3. Whitening Lotion –
Whitening effect of lotions can be benefited from the use of sunblock. As a
resulting protection and non-penetration of UV rays in the skin, the skin does
not need to produce much melanin that causes the dark pigmentation of the skin.
Daily and frequently use of lotion is required to achieve one step skin tone
level at a time. Some lotions are augmented with glutathione for better skin
tone improvement.
4. Nourishment Lotion – Skin
can be nourished through the application of lotion. Lotion can be incorporated
with essential vitamins and supplements that are mostly needed by the skin.
Such vitamins are Vitamin E, Vitamin A, Vitamin B3 and B5 and others to support
skin needs.
5. Medicinal / Insect
Repellant Lotion – Lotion which incorporation of medicinal drugs or chemical
agents to treat such skin infection or disease or repel insects. Example of
this drug is the Kwell lotion that contains permethrin as drug agent, which
uses to treat skin and hair lice, and insect repellant such as Off lotion. But
these lotions come with certain percentage or strength of the active agent to
treat skin or repel mosquitoes.
Consideration of Choosing the
Best Lotion for you:
1. It meets your needs and
problem.
2. Available and
cost-effective.
3. Beneficial and not causing
allergies.
4. Quality of production has
met the international standards.
5. Tests are done and
clinically proven.
6. Manufacturer’s reputation
is good.
7. Registered by FDA or other
government regulating agencies.
8. Hypo-allergenic or
non-comedogenic.
9. Easy to use and apply.
10. Promise results should be
true and achievable.
11. Should not be too oily and
sticky. Instead the lotion should be water base and easily absorbed by skin.
