Athletic Skincare With No Essential Oils
Essential Oils in Athletic Skincare
The athletic skincare market is crowded with cheap soaps, menthol wipes, and thick creams that are full of essential oils promising to disinfect athletes' skin and leave them feeling tingly fresh. Unfortunately, these soaps and wipes are inexpensive and clumsy products designed to make a quick sale and irritate the hell out of your skin. Unfortunately, the exact components that give essential oils their antiseptic properties also damage the skin barrier. Most athletes use these products with good intentions - they are well aware of the skin troubles that plague their sport, and they want to address those concerns successfully. So, they grab a bargain bin soap, or a tub full of eucalyptus wipes, and they go about their way.
Contact Dermatitis from Essential Oils
Enter: contact dermatitis. Contact dermatitis is a skin reaction to potent essential oils, and the rate of incidents has grown. JAMA Dermatol reports, "Contact dermatitis is the fifth most prevalent skin disease in the US, exceeding $1.5 billion in direct annual medical costs. Personal care products such as soaps, lotions, and fragrances contain ingredients that may cause allergic contact dermatitis. The prevalence of PCP-related dermatitis increased 2.7-fold between 1996 and 2016." The skin erupts with irritation as it tries to combat the toxins and irritants that have invaded it. And when you keep lathering on the irritants, it can't heal.
The solution is usually to just stop using all topical products completely until the skin condition clears. When you go back to using skincare products, you need to choose wisely so you don't irritate compromised skin again.
A Better Solution!
Mil Usos isn't more of the same clumsy, overly-mentholed athletic skincare. In fact, one of the reasons we founded the brand was to fight back against all of the cheap and badly formulated athletic skincare on the market. We knew there were far better ingredient options that simply weren't being utilized. So, we got to work and crafted thoughtful formulas that would exceed all expectations for the softest, happiest skin with the fewest steps possible. Instead of essential oils, we choose:
Each of these premium extracts has a proven track record of supporting and healing the skin and is included in our Total Cranarchy Multi-Use Balm. By choosing better ingredients, we not only avoid irritating essential oils, but we can also introduce unique healing properties into the formula. Athletic skincare needs to be antibacterial, antifungal, AND antiviral, and not all essential oils cover these bases equally well. Each of our ingredients contains a complimentary antimicrobial profile, so when they are combined, they help protect the skin from multiple angles. This is why Total Cranarchy Multi-Use Balm can double as athletic gear - it's truly multi-dimensional in new and innovative ways the skincare industry hasn't thought of before.