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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
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
Poopy Plastic Packaging – To Toss or Not to Toss?
Savvy cosmetic buyers read labels more carefully to ensure their products contain natural or organic ingredients. Nobody wants chemicals or toxins in anything that touches their skin. But did you consider whether these cosmetics are encased in poopy plastic packaging?
It takes more chemicals to make plastic packaging than simpler choices such as glass. While glass might be breakable, the toxins in plastic packaging actually leach into your cosmetics and skin care products. No doo doo in my products pleeeeaase!…
Tagged with: natural skin care, non toxic beauty, packaging, plastic, skin care products
Posted in Beauty Ingredients, Non Toxic Beauty, Organic Skin Care, Skin Care Products
Posted in Beauty Ingredients, Non Toxic Beauty, Organic Skin Care, 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
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
Synthetic Dyes and Fragrance: Super Crappy Y’ow!
A rainbow of colors and strong fragrances lure you to the cosmetic counters at retail stores. While the displays look pretty, many are hiding some very ugly facts. Underneath the glossy packaging, certain cosmetics are hiding synthetic dyes and fragrances!
Synthetic colors are used to make cosmetics more eye-catching. You know there’s a problem when you see the color labeled with a letter and number such as FD&C Red No. 6. Synthetic dyes are found in makeup, lipstick, hair dyes…
Big Cosmetic Companies Pay for Testing on Animals But Safe Cosmetics Still Exist!
Recently PETA reported several major companies pay for testing on animals. For over two decades, these companies were previously on PETA’s list of cosmetic manufacturers that do not test on animals. Fortunately, there are still plenty of cosmetic companies that refuse to test on animals.
The Chinese government requires testing on animals?? Ugh! Apparently, some cosmetic companies don’t want to miss out on this huge market. As a result, they started paying for tests on animals after pledging to go…
Tagged with: cruelty free, natural, non toxic beauty, peta, safe cosmetics, Sevani, skin care products, vegan
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
