Best Natural Face Wash: Top 10 to Choose Today

Natural face wash is pretty much like any other natural product. It is just like a regular facial cleanser, but natural face washes do not have any of the chemicals or added ingredients you would find in drugstore brands. Instead, these products use all-natural ingredients like plant extracts, mineral extracts, and essential oils to get the job done. I might add that they do a better job. We will go over all of the different ingredients you may find and which ones to avoid soon.

Best Face Wash Natural Ingredients 

There are a lot of ingredients that end up on the ingredients list for the best natural face wash products. Many of these you will often find in other products as well. All of these ingredients have countless benefits for your body and are used in such a way that allows their most useful properties to come out and shine in the best natural face wash. These 10 natural ingredients are the ones companies most commonly use in their natural products and facial cleansers.

• Coconut Oil: This is one of the most versatile skin, and food, ingredients out there. Its benefits include strengthening underlying epidermal tissue, removing dead skin cells, protecting the skin from the sun, and containing antibacterial, antiviral, anti-fungal, and antioxidant properties. Research has even shown that coconut oil is strong enough to fight chronic skin diseases. 
• Tea Tree Oil: This has been used for hundreds of years in Australia to fight breakouts, redness, and inflammation of the skin. Tea tree oil has been used for its anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antimicrobial, and anti-fungal properties mostly. Its phytochemicals make it one of the most versatile and popular natural skin care essential oils that exists.
• Apple Cider Vinegar: One of the most inexpensive ingredients for skin care, among other uses, is apple cider vinegar. It has nearly infinite uses. It has been used to help kill pathogens like bacteria, clearing skin problems caused by gut issues, cleansing the skin, and helping to stop acne, plus providing anti-fungal properties. It also contains highly beneficial acetic acid and certain vitamins like potassium and magnesium that make it a detoxifying agent when consumed internally.
• Raw Honey: By far, honey is one of the best natural sources of nutrients, enzymes, vitamins, and skin-boosting acids. The benefits include reducing breakouts, providing moisture, containing antiseptic qualities, encouraging wound healing, fighting allergies or rashes, and helping to reduce scars.  The beauty of honey is that it can be used in a mixture or just by itself. Simply take half a teaspoon, warm between hands, and spread on your face gently. Leave it there for about 10 minutes and then rinse with warm water.
• Sea Salt: This stuff comes loaded with tons of minerals and nutrients like magnesium, calcium, sodium, and potassium. Many of the minerals found here are the same ones found in our skin cells and in our bodies, which is why real sea salt can help balance, protect, and restore the skin. Along with containing tons of minerals, sea salt also contains anti-inflammatory properties, removes dead skin cells and irritation, balances oil production, and helps the skin retain moisture levels.
• Avocado: Yup, it has a lot more uses than just for you to put on toast. The various benefits include containing vitamins A, D, and E that penetrate the skin. It can also help soothe sunburned skin and boost collagen production, as well as treat age spots. Not to mention, it helps to reduce inflammation of the skin whether you use it as a cream or if you eat it.
• Argan Oil: You probably have seen this ingredient in hair products. Well, it is also great for your face. This is because it is very rich in vitamin A and E, various antioxidants, omega-6 fatty acids, and linoleic acid. It can help heal irritations such as acne, bug bites, eczema, and psoriasis.
• Aloe Vera: Of course, you probably know of the healing and soothing effects aloe vera has for sunburns, but it also contains bacteria fighting, soothing ingredients that fight inflammation, redness, and itching. This awesome plant has more than 75 potentially active ingredients including anti-inflammatories, vitamins, minerals, saccharides, amino acids, fatty acids, enzymes, lignin, and salicylic acids.
• Jojoba Oil: This is one of the most widely used carrier oils. Jojoba oil is extremely moisturizing and can help heal burns, sores, scars, dermatitis, acne psoriasis, and wrinkles. You can also use it to reduce balding because it encourages hair regrowth, soothes skin, and unclogs hair follicles.
• Shea Butter: You have probably used this as a moisturizer already, but it also has other properties. For dry skin types, it can help moisturize and reduce flaking, redness, and peeling. 

Harmful Ingredients in Face Wash

Unsurprisingly, shampoos, lotions, hair products, makeups, and many more products contain the same toxic ingredients. Each of these has been shown to cause various health concerns, from skin irritation to different forms of cancer. These ingredients can be absorbed into your skin and ultimately into your bloodstream, where they can wreak havoc on your body.

• SLS: It causes skin irritation, canker sores, eye damage, and possibly acne as well. It also disrupts the skin's natural oil balance.
• BHA: This chemical causes skin depigmentation, liver damage, and stomach cancers. It also interferes with the development of the reproductive system, as well as disrupts thyroid hormone levels.
• Triclosan: It causes hormonal disruption, bacterial resistance, and increased allergies, as well as impaired muscle function and immune function.
• Parabens: They can disrupt the endocrine system and cause reproductive and developmental disorders.
• Polyethylene/PEGs: This chemical is a skin irritant.
• Petroleum Distillates: It is produced in oil refineries at the same time as car fuel, heating oil, and chemical feedback. It can also cause dermatitis.
• Retinyl Palmitate and Related Chemicals: They can become carcinogenic in sunlight.
• Hydroquinone: This is a skin bleaching chemical that can cause a skin disease called ochronosis. 

There are many others as well, and the list goes on and on. Our advice is that anything that is fairly hard to pronounce and even remotely sounds like something not natural should be avoided.