| With literally thousands of cosmetics being offered | | | | Glycol is known to cause serious health conditions, |
| on the market, each boasting and promising the | | | | including liver and heart damage and damage to |
| best results available, consumers truly have a | | | | the central nervous system if ingested. |
| difficult task in choosing a product that actually is | | | | Do little amounts matter? |
| beneficial to their skin. Sometimes just finding a | | | | But some may argue, “products only have |
| product that is not detrimental to the skin is next | | | | a fraction of a percentage of these poisonous |
| to impossible. So what is the best way of finding | | | | ingredients, so the product as a whole must not |
| this needle in the hay stack of products available? | | | | be so harmful.” However consider this; if I |
| Using common sense and sensibility? | | | | offered you a glass of water with only a small |
| The large hay stack of products can be easily | | | | amount of arsenic in it, would you drink it? Of |
| whittled down to what will actually be beneficial to | | | | course not! Therefore, why would you put a |
| your skin by using your common sense. Think | | | | cosmetic on your body if it contained poison? |
| about this; are not all cosmetic products basically | | | | Making sure that lipsticks and mascara are made |
| a mixture of various ingredients? When we think | | | | from natural organic ingredients is of the utmost |
| about the complexity of these formulations it | | | | importance! Why? Think of how many times you |
| becomes puzzling. Did ancient people need such | | | | lick your lips, or what happens when you eat |
| complicated mixtures to make their skin supple? | | | | something while you are wearing lipstick? Of |
| Of course not! They simply applied something | | | | course, you are ingesting it. If they contain |
| natural to their skin which was completely safe; | | | | harmful chemicals such as lead, you are |
| such as olive or kukui nut oil. People using their | | | | contaminating your body. Also mascara can affect |
| common sense already knew that olive oil is | | | | the body detrimentaly. The eyes are another |
| edible, it must therefore be good for topical | | | | doorway to the body by which chemicals find an |
| applications. No harmful side effects, no allergies, | | | | easy entry. Every time you blink or when tears |
| no super-sensitivities. | | | | mix in with the mascara, you may be introducting |
| How to rate ingredients? | | | | chemicals into your body. After a while, your |
| Using this same principle we can individually rate | | | | body may not be able to ward off these foreign |
| the ingredients of a certain cosmetic. Say we | | | | substances, and your eyes will become sensitive, |
| choose a certain ingredient from the ingredients | | | | red and watery. These are the first indications |
| list, and apply a liberal amount of it on our skin. | | | | that we should begin searching for a good, natural |
| For example the ingredient “propylene | | | | mascara. |
| glycol.” It is found in 90% of all cosmetic | | | | If you care about your appearance and your |
| products. What would happen? Would there be | | | | health, then you will be just as selective about |
| any side affects from this chemical? Would we | | | | what you put in your body as what you put on |
| have an allergy to it? Better yet, we could we | | | | your skin. |
| apply the “what is good to eat is good for | | | | Using this simple skin care tip will help you make a |
| the skin” principle to this ingredient? Can | | | | wise product choice. |
| you imagine eating “propylene | | | | Xavier is an expert cosmetics formulator who |
| glycol”? No way you might say! Propylene | | | | insists on using organic ingredients. |