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- Conventional personal care
products in department and specialty stores include synthetic
ingredients and man-made chemicals that may put your health at risk with
long term use. The average person uses 10-45 pounds of soaps, toiletries
and cosmetics per year. With this amount of consumption we should assure
ourselves that the products we are using are the safest, healthiest and
most wholesome possible. We have more detailed information on
Skin
Care and
Sun
Care in our Education Center.
Mass marketed
personal care products rely on image building and massive marketing
campaigns to sell products. These products contain simple chemical
ingredients and are then marketed in elaborate packaging which usually
costs more than the ingredients of the product. With these products come a
media campaign of famous people, catchy musical themes and slick
advertising that have nothing to do with why you are buying the product.
Your skin has
the ability to absorb into the body what is put on it . We should
not put anything on our skin that we would not want to eat. Not all
ingredients are required to be disclosed in chemical fragrance laden
conventional products. We do not know the health impacts of all the
chemicals used in mass marketed personal care products and many
ingredients being used today are considered possible carcinogens.
Many companies producing conventional personal care products test these
products on animals or use ingredients that were tested on animals. Some
products are labeled "Compassionate" because they avoid animal
extracts, but they may include animal tested ingredients. Be careful of
products that proclaim "Not Tested on Animals" and then include
various chemical ingredients and artificial colors. The purchase of these
products supports the practice of needless animal suffering and
unnecessary environmental pollution due to chemical manufacturing and
wasteful packaging.
Some
conventional products may include a single "100% Natural"
ingredient, use natural base ingredients and then chemically alter them
with petrochemicals or contain many natural ingredients only to include
artificial colors and chemical fragrances. These types of products can be
found in many "Natural Food Stores" and "Natural Body
Shops" and are trying to give the impression of a wholesome natural
product, but their products have not followed through completely to
produce a completely natural, healthy product in every aspect.
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