Are you using all natural and organic skin care products with only safe and healthy ingredients yet? Or have you been struggling to find the healthy products and make the transition?
Here’s a program to help you focus on making the transition and actually doing it.
Now, having a goal isn’t enough to be successful at transitioning to using all healthy and safe cosmetics and skin care products. You need to know what products are safe to use and how to get them.
If you need help determining which products are safe and healthy to use, Dying To Look Good “Best Brands” has done all the leg work for you. Every one of the products listed in this program - from more than 20 different, prescreened companies - are guaranteed to be safe and healthy.
So, here you have a winning combination. Set your goals. Choose your pre-screened, safe and healthy products. And protect your health and that of your family.
Yours in health,
Christine H. Farlow, D.C.
The Ingredients Investigator
Protecting you from harmful ingredients www.dyingtolookgood.com
Finding the ingredients lists for natural skin care products
Beware of natural skin care product lines that don’t list all their ingredients on their website. If a skin care product line that claims to be natural or organic lists only “key” ingredients or only names a few natural or herbal ingredients, then it’s very likely that theyhave something to hide.
Most truly natural skin care companies, who really believe that all their ingredients are safe and healthy, will provide the complete ingredients list on their website.
At worst, at least until today, an e-mail to the company will generally get the ingredients list or a link to where it can be found.
However, I was sent on a wild goose chase yesterday and today when I tried to get the ingredients in the new “Pink Body” line by Victoria’s Secret. They claim the ingredients in their new skin care products are natural, organic and 100% vegan. If you try to locate the ingredients on their website, all you will find is two or three ingredients listed in a brief description of each product.
When I see a skin care company that claims such high standards for the ingredients in their supposedly natural and organic skin care products on top of alleging they are also “green,” I want to check them out!
Because I didn’t find complete ingredients lists on their website, I did the usual and sent them an e-mail. The response I got back mentioned the same few ingredients they list on their website and they directed me back to the website. When I replied and said I wanted the COMPLETE ingredients lists for their products, they sent me the phone number for the lab that does their MSDS’s (manufacturers safety data sheets). I called and spoke with a very helpful gentleman who then told me that the MSDS’s don’t contain ALL the ingredients in each product. He then gave me the corporate phone number for Victoria’s Secret and a lab that actually manufactures some of the products.
I wasn’t about to waste any more time trying to chase down all the ingredients in these supposedly organic, natural and vegan skin care products. If they put that much effort into making the ingredients unavailable to the consumer, I can only assume that they have something to hide.
Now it is up to Victoria’s Secret to come forward with full disclosure! I dare them!
In the meantime, make sure you can read the entire ingredients list and all the ingredients are safe for any skin care product you intend to buy. Dying To Look Good will help you decipher the safety of ingredients you find on the labels when you shop.
Just because an herbal skin care product claims to be natural doesn’t mean it is. It may contain a few herbs along with synthetic ingredients, contaminants that cause cancer or chemicals that cause some type of harmful effects.
Not all plant derived skin care ingredients are natural. If the label says an ingredient was derived from coconut, it may or may not be natural, depending on the extent and type of processing. Many plant-derived ingredients are so heavily processed they don’t come close to resembling the plant from which they were derived.
A manufacturer of skin care products may claim that their products are natural or organic, but that doesn’t mean it’s true. The cosmetic, skin care and personal care products industry is highly unregulated. There’s a lot of misinformation presented by the companies in this industry. You can’t believe the advertising or the product labels. The truth is in the ingredients list.
If you don’t want to read the ingredients list on all the natural and organic skin care products you buy, make sure that you choose skin care products that were certified organic by the USDA National Organic Program. Other organic certifying organizations allow ingredients that should not be in organic products.
100% natural skin care products that are also organic are always your best option. If your choice is also a certified organic skin care product that’s the best. Be sure the product is certified to the National Organic Program (NOP) standards, not OASIS or Ecocert, both of which are not true organic standards. This will assure you that you are getting a top quality, healthy product.
Now, there are some organic natural skin care products that, even though they are not certified, are still recommended as a top choice. That you can only know by learning all you can about the company and the manufacturer.
Two of my favorite organic natural skin care product lines I’ll mention here. I have thoroughly investigated both of these companies and the quality of the products and their ingredients are unsurpassable.
Miessence is the world’s first internationally certified organic skin care on the market. Their certified organic products contain at least 95% organically grown ingredients, and no synthetic or genetically engineered ingredients. The Miessence organic products contain at least 70% organically produced ingredients. Like their certified organic products they contain no synthetic or genetically engineered ingredients. All Miessence products are in compliance with the strict ingredient and processing requirements of the USDA National Organic Program (NOP).
Next time, I’ll introduce you to another of my favorite all natural and organic skin care products.
