Chemical Free? Safe Cosmetics?
It has been stated many times before that everything is chemical, so it is a ludicrous statement to claim “no chemicals” – who wants to buy a vacuum?
How the Safe Cosmetics Bill Will Affect Natural Cosmetics
If you use vegetable oils in your skin care products, regardless of whether or not they are organic, they may be prohibited by this bill because they contain phytoestrogens.
What’s the Story? Health Claims Against Cosmetics – How Do They Look in the Light?
Cosmetics are health and beauty products such as toothpaste, antiperspirant, lipstick, eyeliner, and hand lotion. Many of us have used one or more of these products every day for many years without giving them a second thought.
Should All Synthetic Skin Care Ingredients Be Avoided?
The explosion of “green” products entering the skin care market, it is now commonplace to find products conveying a message that they are natural.
Parabens and This and That…
A new report just came out on parabens that I found interesting. Having read previous papers about parabens I have been skeptical of the bad press they have received supposedly because of them affecting the hormonal systems of the body which lead to cancer.
Why Use a Preservative?
With the current high interest in all things natural many formulators do not recognize the importance of using a preservative. Preservatives are a necessary ingredient in al emulsions to prevent the growth of bacteria. Even though bacteria are completely ‘natural’ they can also cause a lot of harm to us. A colleague of mine recently shared…
phthalates: are they safe?
Phthalates are a hot topic in the personal care and many other industries. 60 Minutes ran a great segment last Sunday on the phthalates. Phthalates are found all around us: food, tap water, the air we breathe, plastics, household goods and many other products. They make fragrances linger longer
Natural is Safe and Synthetic is Dangerous: Truth is Safe and Myths are Dangerous
Dene Godfrey, you are a dangerous man and it looks to me like your in bed with others who share the same interest as you. I talk about the very things you said in your above comments in my new book. I educate consumers about how to tell a toxic product and a profit hungry [...]
A dash of TNT with that, madam?
One of the reasons given for supporting the Colorado bill was that the targeted ingredients are more stringently restricted in Europe than in the USA. It’s true that the FDA has prohibited only 9 substances as cosmetic ingredients, compared to 1,233 currently prohibited in Europe. Well, clearly “no contest” in the legal stringency stakes. But, the great majority of the 1,233 are petroleum derivatives, and many are pharmaceutical drugs, industrial solvents, or poisons such as curare, strychnine and arsenic – you can read the full list here.
Risk!
In recent years there has been an ever-increasing tendency for the media and many pressure groups to publicise negative reports on synthetic chemicals, using emotive words such as “toxic”, “dangerous”, “nasty” and “polluting”. Even accepting the official legal (EU) definition of “toxic”, very few of the chemicals under attack are truly toxic, but the main point is that the reports usually focus on the hazard(s) identified with the chemical in question.
