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Vitochkas
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 Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 3:18 pm Post subject: Organic beauty products? |
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| I have read "Potentially harmful ingredients" by Dr. Todorov. I have always thought that natural is better because it is natural but it looks as it can be harmful to your skin as well. I am trying to be more sustainable and to use products which were produced in a sustainable or eco-friendly way. But after reading this article it looks as synthetic ingredients can do better job to your skin then natural. I want to look good and buy products which are most efficient but I also want to save the environment. So, what can I do now? Does it mean that DIY is the best? Well, I like DIY but then I have to buy only organic ingredients to be more sustainable. And this is a problem because it is very hard to find organic ingredients mentioned in the DIY package. |
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nyonyakay
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Location: Sydney, Australia
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 5:59 pm Post subject: Re: Organic beauty products? |
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| Vitochkas wrote: | | I have read "Potentially harmful ingredients" by Dr. Todorov. I have always thought that natural is better because it is natural but it looks as it can be harmful to your skin as well. I am trying to be more sustainable and to use products which were produced in a sustainable or eco-friendly way. But after reading this article it looks as synthetic ingredients can do better job to your skin then natural. I want to look good and buy products which are most efficient but I also want to save the environment. So, what can I do now? Does it mean that DIY is the best? Well, I like DIY but then I have to buy only organic ingredients to be more sustainable. And this is a problem because it is very hard to find organic ingredients mentioned in the DIY package. |
It's a bit of a long bow to think that you can save the planet by buying only "organic' skincare products or ingredients. Firstly there are no agreed standards for what constitutes "organic" in skincare. The standards were developed for the food industry. Skincare companies have been appropriating and adapting these as they see fit to market their products.
And just say, hypothetically, that you wanted to save your skin more than the planet, you should be aware that there is no clinical research which unequivocally demonstrates organic skincare has more benefits for the skin (anti-wrinkle, whitening, moisturising, etc.) than skincare based on lab-synthesized ingredients.
Whatever you have read about the "superiority" of purely natural or organic skincare is anecdotal conjecture or misleadingly creative fiction by marketing departments.
Buy it if it makes you feel happy and you think it is good value, but don't mislead yourself, or be mislead by the marketing spiel. Ask the manufacturers what tests they have done which proves the product is the best in the market, and which synthetic products they compared their "natural"/"organic" product against. |
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propylene_glycol
Joined: 07 Mar 2007
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Location: Colgate, WI
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Some "organic" products lack ingredients such as SLS, SLES, propylene glycol etc... |
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brad999
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Poison ivy is all natural and organic. That doesn't make it good for your skin.
Brad |
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