In the meantime it has gotten chilly outside – inside the heaters are banging on in many places. Which is expensive and also causes dry skin. But against it can be smeared. For little money, as Öko-Test found out.
The autumn is here. As a result, the heaters are increasingly turned on again. With sometimes unpleasant consequences for the skin. Because it tends to dry out in the cold season, favored by heating air. Which isn’t too bad at first, even if the associated feeling of tension and cracked, brittle and itchy skin are quite uncomfortable. And on top of that it doesn’t look and feel that nice.
So against it is creamed, what the stuff holds. Suitable for the coming months, Öko-Test has examined 35 body lotions, balms and creams at prices between 0.38 and 40 euros for 200 ml, preferably with the claim “for dry skin” or “rich”. And yes, you read that right, the price of the most expensive lotion is more than a hundred times that of the cheap private label.
And is the money well invested? Nope, quite the opposite. The testers can recommend two-thirds of the body lotions with “good” or “very good”, including all 13 with a natural cosmetics seal. However, ten conventional products smear with “inadequate” or “inadequate”. At the bottom are the three expensive ones with designer fragrances: the “Calvin Klein Eternity For Woman Luxurious Body” lotion for 40 euros, the “Jean Paul Gaultier Scandal Perfumed Body Lotion” (32.99 euros) and the “Jil Sander Eve Perfumed Body Lotion” (21.33 euros) were all rated “unsatisfactory”.
All three contain the polycyclic musk Galaxolide, two also contain the synthetic fragrance Cashmeran, and plenty of it. Both compounds accumulate in human fatty tissue – with an uncertain outcome. In addition, they also contain PEG/PEG derivatives, which can make the skin more permeable. In the eyes of the testers, the Calvin Klein lotion also has a “greatly increased” content of diethyl phthalate (DEP). DEP, which is used to denaturate alcohol, can also impair the skin’s protective mechanism.
With the Calvin Klein product, the deductions would easily have been enough to fail twice. Which clearly names the test loser. But you can’t do worse than insufficient.
On the other hand, the evaluation of significantly cheaper products is much more pleasing. For example, the “very good” “Lacura Body Milk Classic” from Aldi Nord/Süd is available for just 0.38 euros. And also with the “Alterra Intensive Body Lotion Organic Sea Buckthorn” from Rossmann (1.59 euros), the “Alverde Cream Oil Lotion Organic Argan Oil, Organic Almond” from DM (2.45 euros), the “Bevola Naturals Body Milk Bio -cocoa butter
