Did you know that your skin is your largest organ? Beauty products applied to the skin are directly absorbed into the blood stream avoiding the detoxifying abilities of the liver.
Food is digested and sent to the liver to detoxify and the results distributed throughout your body by the blood stream. So skin care products with harmful ingredients are far more toxic than any food. If you are buying organic food, you should be also be using safe personal care products.
But do not be fooled by your personal products sporting the words “organic” and/or “natural”. The cosmetics industry is completely self-regulated so each company sets and polices their own standards. Scary stuff huh?
Here are 5 tips to help you when choosing your personal products :
Beauty Tip #1
Stay away from the word fragrance. Any product that lists “fragrance” as an ingredient should be avoided. The word fragrance by law is trade secret, therefore companies do not need to disclose the ingredients within it. There can be 1, 2, 5 or even 1200 ingredients hiding behind that word.
Beauty Tip #2
Check your products and/or ingredients on the Skindeep database www.ewg.org/skindeep. The EWG (Environmental Working Group) has been maintaining a database of personal products that includes well over 72,000 items now. The products are rated from 0 to 10 where 0 = very safe and 10 = you better throw that crap in the garbage please! If your product is not listed it’s because EWG has not gotten there yet or because the company has not agreed to have their products listed. Something to ponder if your brand is not showing up.
Beauty Tip #3
