• All Natural and Organic Skin Care Products #40

    28Jan
    Categories: Natural Skin Care, Natural Skin Care Ingredients Comments: 0

    Product review for Glimpse natural skin care line from Xango

     

    The company website says that Glimpse is “a wholesome, natural, botanical line of skin care products that works in harmony with the needs of your body.”

     

    The ingredients in natural skin care products, to be considered “wholesome,” should be healthy ingredients. Because a great deal of what you put on your skin is absorbed into your bloodstream, the ingredients should be ingredients that you want in your body, like the ingredients in foods that you would eat.

     

    Their moisturizer contains hydrogenated oils from soy and canola. Hydrogenated oils are unhealthy. They contain trans fats that are associated with heart disease. In addition, not only are soy and canola oils bad for your health, but they are among the most commonly genetically engineered crops.

     

    Furthermore this product has ingredients derived from corn, also commonly genetically engineered.

     

    The only way to be sure these ingredients are not GE, if it’s not stated on the label, is to buy natural skin care products that are 100% organic. Better yet, choose products that are both organic and do not contain soy or canola or any other hydrogenated oils.

     

    In addition, the product is preserved with sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate. While potassium sorbate is one of the less harmful preservatives, sodium benzoate is not. If there is vitamin C in the product, a possibility because some of the ingredients in this product may contain vitamin C, sodium benzoate can react with vitamin C and cause the formation of benzene, known to cause cancer.

     

    The best natural skin care product is certified organic with healthy ingredients that you would find in your kitchen, ingredients that you would feel great about eating.

     

    Not only is the Glimpse product line less desirable than the best certified organic skin care products on the market, it is also quite a bit more costly. Why pay more for lower quality and inferior ingredients?

     

    Christine H. Farlow, D.C.

    The Ingredients Investigator

    Protecting You From Harmful Ingredients…

    www.dyingtolookgood.com

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  • All Natural and Organic Skin Care Products #24

    14Nov
    Categories: Uncategorized Comments: 0

    New Natural Skin Care Standards

     

    The Natural Products Association (NPA) has a standard and a seal for certifying natural products. You will start to see products certified by the NPA on store shelves by Thanksgiving.

     

    Under this program, skin care products are certified natural, not organic. This will give some definition to what it means to be natural for skin care products. Up until now, the term natural has not been legally defined for cosmetics, skin care or personal care products.

     

    These new standards are definitely a step in the right direction and certain currently allowed synthetic ingredients will be eliminated in 2010 to improve the standards.

     

    However, the current standards do allow hydrolyzed proteins, a source of hidden MSG and hydrogenated oils. Both of these types of ingredients I consider unacceptable in natural skin care products. Since a great deal of what you put on your skin is absorbed into your bloodstream, why would you use products on your skin with ingredients you would not eat?

     

    One major drawback to the NPA standards is that in order to be certified, there is a hefty fee. Many small natural skin care companies that use the best natural skin care ingredients may find the cost prohibitive and may not be able to afford certification.

     

    Many of these small companies’ products are actually superior to some of the certified products from the larger, mainstream companies that can afford to pay the price. This will mislead the consumer into thinking that the products certified by the NPA are superior to those of the small all natural skin care companies that actually do have superior products with higher quality ingredients.

     

    Certified so far are seven Natural Lips products by Aubrey Organics, nine products by Burt’s Bees and two body cremes by JR Watkins Natural Apothecary.

     

    The Steering Committee & Partners for this new standard are

     

    Aubrey Organics

    Badger Balm

    Burt’s Bees

    Trilogy Fragrances

    Weleda

     

    My advice, as always, is to read the ingredients list, even on products certified organic by any standard or certified natural by the new natural standards.

     

    These new standards aren’t perfect as you can see with some of the undesirable ingredients allowed. Also, with Burt’s Bees at the helm and with many of their products containing fragrance, and the downgrading of some of their ingredients to include canola oil since their takeover by Clorox, it is just wise to make sure you know what’s in the products you use and make sure it meets with the level of safety/risk you’re comfortable with.

     

    Click here to shop for truly healthy natural skin care products.

     

    Christine H. Farlow, D.C.

    The Ingredients Investigator

    Protecting You From Harmful Ingredients…

    www.dyingtolookgood.com

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  • All Natural and Organic Skin Care Products #21

    07Nov
    Categories: Natural Skin Care, Natural Skin Care Ingredients Comments: 0

    Anti-aging natural skin care products

     

    There are a lot of anti-aging products on the market. Many claim to be natural. However, if you read the ingredients list you’ll find that a great many so-called natural skin care anti-aging products are far from natural.

     

    Very popular among the highly marketed so called all natural anti-aging skin care products is the use of nano ingredients. This is a technology that is rapidly being integrated into many products, not only skin care.

     

    The main issue you should be concerned with is the fact that these ingredients have not been adequately studied. No one knows the long term effects on your health from the absorption of nano ingredients. However it has been shown that nano sized titanium dioxide enters the cell and damages the DNA. This alone is good reason to avoid all skin care products, whether natural or not, that contain nano sized ingredients.

     

    Here are three of my top picks for certified organic natural anti-aging skin care products …

     

    Rejuvenessence Facial Serum rejuvenates tired and stressed skin with powerful healing ingredients like avocado, rosehips, calendula, jojoba and carrot. There are no synthetic chemicals, no petroleum derived ingredients and no contaminants – just organic, whole, nourishing ingredients to feed your skin and to regenerate and revitialize your complexion.

     

    Firming Eye & Neck Serum decreases the appearance of crow’s feet and fine lines and wrinkles. It moisturizes and tones with organic ingredients like rosehips, avocado oil, olive leaf, horsetail and nettle. It’s ultra concentrated with real food nutrition for the skin.

     

    Ambrosia Essence is the ultimate skin rejuvenation treatment. It’s composed of powerful and effective herbs and flower extracts to tone, soothe and renew the skin. Tamanu nut oil, rosehips and neroli are just three of it’s eight potent and healing ingredients.

     

    Rejuvenate and revitalize your skin with the best natural skin care anti-aging products that contain truly healthy and nourishing ingredients.

     

    Christine H. Farlow, D.C.

    The Ingredients Investigator

    Protecting You From Harmful Ingredients…

    www.dyingtolookgood.com

    www.dyingtolookgoodbook.com

     


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  • All Natural and Organic Skin Care Products #1

    23Sep
    Categories: Natural Skin Care, Natural Skin Care Ingredients Comments: 0

    What is natural skin care?

    All natural skin care suggests that the ingredients in the product are derived from natural sources, like plants and have only been minimally processed.

    You would expect natural skin care ingredients to include such things as aloe vera, olive oil, shea butter, coconut oil, herbs and essential oils. Ingredients like propylene glycol, methyl- and propyl paraben, imidazolidinyl urea, PEG compounds, and triethanolamine, aka TEA, have no place in so-called natural skin care products.

    Many a natural skin care company, however, uses these synthetic, far from natural ingredients along with a few natural, plant based ingredients. Recently, cancer-causing contaminants were discovered in some so called natural skin care products.

    The reason this can happen is that “… there are no industry standards for what natural means. The product may contain all natural ingredients, just a few natural ingredients added to a synthetic product or even no natural ingredients at all.” (Excerpt from Dying To Look Good.)

    The best natural skin care is also organic, certified to food standards. This will guarantee that the natural skin care product truly is natural and has safe and healthy ingredients.

    You can find some truly healthy, all natural skin care products here.

     

    Check out some free resources here for natural skin and body care.

     

    Christine H. Farlow, D.C.

    The Ingredients Investigator

    Protecting You From Harmful Ingredients…

    www.dyingtolookgood.com

    www.dyingtolookgoodbook.com 

     


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