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Grapefruit Seed Extract, Natural Preservative or Not So Conservative?
Do a quick web search on grapefruit seed extract, or GSE, and you’ll find multiple infomercial-style articles touting its benefits. All natural anti-bacterial and anti-fungal! Natural medicinal properties! What your search might not disclose is the fact that this “all natural” product may not be all that natural.
GSE’s Dirty Little Secret
What your “all natural” GSE may be hiding are some really nasty chemicals, such as diphenol chloride and benzethonium chloride. Look these babies up! You’ll find numerous scholarly…
Tagged with: beauty ingredients, beauty products, Grapefruit Extract, GSE, GSE diphenol hydroxybenzene, Natural Preservatives, natural skin care, non toxic beauty, organic, organic skin care, safe cosmetics, skin care products, toxins
Posted in Beauty Ingredients, Beauty Products, Non Toxic Beauty, Organic Skin Care, Skin care ingredients, Skin Care Products
Posted in Beauty Ingredients, Beauty Products, Non Toxic Beauty, Organic Skin Care, Skin care ingredients, Skin Care Products
Are GMOs Sneaking Under Your Skin?
The hot topic of the day is eating foods that are actually genetically monitored organisms. Many people don’t want to put foods into their body that have be significantly altered. While we are aware these foods exist, could you be putting genetically monitored organisms on your skin too? Sounds like mad science!
Referred to as GMOs, CSA states these plants are created for use by humans or animals by using molecular biology techniques. They are not plants in their natural…
Tagged with: beauty ingredients, genetically modified organisms, GMOs, natural, organic, skin care
Posted in Beauty Food, Beauty Ingredients, Non Toxic Beauty, Organic Skin Care, Skin care ingredients
Posted in Beauty Food, Beauty Ingredients, Non Toxic Beauty, Organic Skin Care, Skin care ingredients
Is Greenwashing Another Term for Hogwash?
With greenwashing running rampant, we like to call out bull when we spot it. Sometimes it hides behind flowery terms but we can smell the crap a mile away. In the corporate world, they refer to this marketing tactic as whitewashing. Here, we refer to greenwashing as hogwash.
Greenwashing refers to corporations that attempt to go green by changing their labels, packaging and marketing. They realize consumers are concerned about their health and the environment. Their goal is to improve…
Tagged with: greenwashing, natural, non toxic beauty, organic, safe cosmetics
Posted in Beauty Ingredients, Makeup, Non Toxic Beauty, Organic Skin Care, Skin care ingredients, Skin Care Products
Posted in Beauty Ingredients, Makeup, Non Toxic Beauty, Organic Skin Care, Skin care ingredients, Skin Care Products
BS Free Memorial Day Beauty Tips – The Natural Way
Memorial Day weekend means summer is almost here and the living is easy. Fuss-free beauty means going natural with no bull beauty tips that make you look and feel your best.
Warmer weather means it’s time to drink more water. Ideally, you should have six to eight medium-sized glasses of water each day. Perspiration and sun exposure can cause dehydration. Keep your body hydrated and your skin smooth by having plenty of water. It’s really good crap for your beauty…
Tagged with: beauty tips, memorial day, natural skin care, organic, skin care, vitamin d
Posted in Beauty Ingredients, Non Toxic Beauty, Organic Skin Care, Skin care ingredients
Posted in Beauty Ingredients, Non Toxic Beauty, Organic Skin Care, Skin care ingredients
Toxic Perfumes Make No Good Scents
Few people realize something that smells sweet could actually be a harmful toxin. Your designer fragrance might be more intoxicating than you ever imagined. Some of the crap contained in fragrances should never hit your skin.
An endorsement from your favorite celebrity is not a reason to wear a certain fragrance. The WebMD blog revealed a report by the President’s Cancer Panel found many fragrances contained elements that disrupted your hormones. It sound like stinky stuff to us!
It gets…
Tagged with: fragrances, natural beauty, non toxic beauty, organic, perfume, skin care products
Posted in Beauty Ingredients, Organic Skin Care, Skin care ingredients, Skin Care Products
Posted in Beauty Ingredients, Organic Skin Care, Skin care ingredients, Skin Care Products
Tricky Triclosan, Hidden Pesticide in Your Beauty Products?
Antibacterial, antiviral and anti-fungal agents are good crap, aren’t they? Though they might sound beneficial, these beauty products could be hiding something we refer to as tricky triclosan.
Few people imagine something that sounds good for them could be bad. This is the situation with beauty products containing triclosan. The aromatic compound is represented by both ethers and phenols. Sounds like confusing crap eh? No doubt….
Triclosan is used in pesticides, insulation and mattresses to slow the growth of mildew,…
Tagged with: natural, non toxic beauty, organic, skin care products, triclosan
Posted in Beauty Ingredients, Non Toxic Beauty, Organic Skin Care, Skin care ingredients, Skin Care Products
Posted in Beauty Ingredients, Non Toxic Beauty, Organic Skin Care, Skin care ingredients, Skin Care Products
Top Ten Toxic Turds in Cosmetics
Cosmetics might look colorful and smell wonderful but could be hiding one or more of the top ten toxic turds! Looks are deceiving and you need to read the ingredients to unearth the scary truth. The largest organ we have is skin. Research indicates more than half of what we put on our skin can be absorbed into the bloodstream. We don’t want to soak up crap into our systems!
Frankly, none of us want to put anything that goes…
Tagged with: cosmetics, natural, organic, skin care products, toxins
Posted in Beauty Ingredients, Non Toxic Beauty, Skin care ingredients
Posted in Beauty Ingredients, Non Toxic Beauty, Skin care ingredients
Are There Poopy Ingredients in your Beauty Products?
Unless you use non-toxic and organic cosmetics, it is likely there are poopy ingredients in your beauty products. Even natural and organic cosmetics “may” contain harmful elements. The harsh reality is The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics revealed cosmetics are one of the least regulated products sold for human use. Reading the ingredients in your cosmetics is essential to keep crap off your skin and out of your system.
Fragrances are confusing crap because they are simple referred to as “fragrance”…
Tagged with: acne, mineral makeup, natural, non toxic beauty, organic, skin care, skin care products
Posted in Acne, Beauty Ingredients, Makeup, Non Toxic Beauty, Organic Skin Care, Skin care ingredients, Skin Care Products
Posted in Acne, Beauty Ingredients, Makeup, Non Toxic Beauty, Organic Skin Care, Skin care ingredients, Skin Care Products
Does Diet Affect the Skin? Get the Skinny Here!
There are many conflicting reports about whether diet affects the skin and it all becomes confusing crap. The bottom line is we all know diet is important to maintain healthy organs and body functions. Since the skin is the largest body organ of all, it makes sense to link our diet with our skin.
Certain foods such as dairy and hormone fed cattle promote inflammation and aggravate acne for sure. Genetically modified (GMO’s) can certainly contribute to a variety of…
Tagged with: diet, essential oils, natural, non toxic beauty, organic, skin, skin care
Posted in Acne, Anti Aging, Beauty Ingredients, Non Toxic Beauty, Organic Skin Care
Posted in Acne, Anti Aging, Beauty Ingredients, Non Toxic Beauty, Organic Skin Care
Little Things Mean a Lot When It Comes to Acne and Rosacea
From holistic practitioners to dermatologists, professionals are discovering small steps mean a lot when it comes to caring for skin with acne or rosacea.
In the past, people turned to internal medications and topical medicines. Often they would dry out the skin and have other minor side effects. This seemed like confusing caca since you are, in essence, exchanging one problem for another. As a result, we would flush them and move on to more non toxic beauty solutions.
Natural…
Tagged with: acne, natural, non toxic beauty, organic, rosacea, skin care products
Posted in Acne, Beauty Ingredients, Non Toxic Beauty, Organic Skin Care, Skin care ingredients, Skin Care Products
Posted in Acne, Beauty Ingredients, Non Toxic Beauty, Organic Skin Care, Skin care ingredients, Skin Care Products
