First, we have to understand what health is. Health is not a static state, it is always dynamic. What does this mean? Dynamic means that it is always in a state of adjustment. The body has lots of systems set up to help keep it in a state of balance. For example, if you get too hot, the body will find ways to cool you down, such as perspiration, blood going to the surface, and so on. If you get to cold, blood will go away from your surface, all your little hairs stand up, your body start shaking and you need to urinate. The body contains many systems like this, and all these systems keep our bodies healthy.

One of our biggest organs is our liver, which is there to filter out toxins and chemicals from our bodies so they can be excreted out of the system through our stools. However, if the products we eat, apply to the skin, breathe or drink are full of chemicals, the liver will get so overloaded that it becomes sluggish, and a lot of these chemicals will end up in the blood stream and tissues, instead of being eliminated. Eventually, this causes sicknesses of different kinds, since the toxins keep the body in a continuous state of imbalance.

Have you ever heard raw food enthusiasts talk about detox? Detox is what happens when you start eliminating foods that clog up your system, and the body finally has enough energy to actually get rid of the toxic substances that are stored in your body. The resulting symptoms can be fever, headache, chills, diarrhea, nasty body odor, bad breath and so on. Most people have no idea how toxic their bodies actually are, until they do a fast or colon therapy, or some other therapy that is designed to detox the body.

So, what does this have to do with chemicals in skin care products? Very simple: anything you put on the skin, eventually end up in your bloodstream, where they add toxins to an already stressed out body. It doesn’t happen overnight, so you won’t feel sick an hour after you put toxic lotion on your legs. But, everything adds up over time. And, if you read the labels on the product you use on your body everyday, and add up every word that sounds like chemical gibberish, it can easily add up to over 100 different chemicals daily!!!

There is no way, that adding that many chemicals to your system, even in tiny amounts, isn’t going to affect your health in the long run. Therefore, I’m on a mission to make people aware of the problem, so they can make a conscious choice what they want to expose themselves to, and I have also made an awesome alternative in my new product line Green Beauty Cosmetics.
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Suki Pure Skin Care 4 moderate hazard (she didn’t specify what type of lecithin or essential oils she used, only one other ingredient is questionable, otherwise her skincare line is basically green). Safe Cosmetics signer, yes, no animal testing.
Nature’s Baby – totally green
Zosimos Botanicals – a few moderate risk ingredients, Safe Cosmetics
signer, no animal testing
Belle’s Botanicals – totally green
Purple Prairie Botanicals – totally green
Body Botanicals – only one moderate risk ingredient
Moon Valley Bees & Botanicals – totally green
Wild Thyme Botanicals – totally green
Plum Botanicals – totally green
Organic & Natural Enterprise group – 4 moderate risk ingredients
Oracle Organics – 1 moderate risk ingredients
Perfect Organics – 2 moderate risk ingredients
Bare Organics – 1 moderate risk ingredient
Bubble & Bee Organic – 1 moderate risk ingredient
LuSa Organics – 3 moderate risk ingredients
Lily Organics – totally green

Totally green means low hazard. The only thing you have to watch out for with these companies, is whether they use any preservatives in their formulas. If they sell their products in stores, they need to have preservatives of some kind in them if they are sitting on shelves for any time before you buy them, or you could end up with a moldy or contaminated product.

Some people use essential oils as preservatives, even though essential oils are NOT really preservatives, unless you put so much in that they can become a hazard in themselves. Essential oils can be irritating to the skin if the concentration is too high.

Anti-oxidants can protect oils from going rancid, but if you are buying a product that contains water, it is going to need more than anti oxidants and essential oils to preserve it. So read the labels, and make your own judgment. And remember, if you can’t pronounce it, don’t put it on your skin!
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Anyway, here is a list of products that contain numerous ingredients that are harmful to your health:

Avon – 21 high hazard ingredients
Maybelline – 21 high hazard ingredients, animal testing!
Revlon – 20 high hazard ingredients
Loreal – 20 high hazard ingredients, animal testing!
Neutrogena – 17 high hazard ingredients, animal testing!
Cover Girl – 15 high hazard ingredients, animal testing!
Almay – 12 high hazard ingredients
Physicians Formula – 11 high hazard ingredients
Olay – 9 high hazard ingredients, animal testing!
MD Skincare – 9 high hazard ingredients
Max Factor – 7 high hazard ingredients, animal testing!
Arbonne – 6 high hazard ingredients
Dr Hauschka – 5 high hazard ingredients
Derma e – 5 high hazard ingredients
Dr Brandt – 5 high hazard ingredients

Better products, but still contains hazardous ingredients:

Rachel Perry – 4 high hazard ingredients
Desert Essence – 4 high hazard ingredients
Kiss my Face – 4 high hazard ingredients, signed pact for safe cosmetics
Jason – 4 high hazard ingredients, signed pact for safe cosmetics
Emerita – 4 high hazard ingredients
Ecco Bella – 3 high hazard ingredients, signed pact for safe cosmetics
Alba Botanica – 3 high hazard ingredients, signed pact for safe cosmetics
Jane Iredale – 3 high hazard ingredients, signed pact for safe cosmetics
Avalon – 2 high hazard ingredients, signed pact for safe cosmetics
Beauty without cruelty – 2 high hazard ingredients, signed pact for safe cosmetics
Burt’s Bees – 1 high hazard ingredient, signed pact for safe cosmetics
Aubrey – 1 high hazard ingredient, signed pact for safe cosmetics

Make a mental note of the top ones. Not only are they full of chemicals that can seriously affect your health, but some of them even do animal testing, which is the cruelest thing! At the lower end of the list, you find companies that have signed the compact for safe cosmetics where they pledge to use safe ingredients in their products. At least, they show good intention. They do, however, have 3 years to get rid of their nasties, so we still have to watch what we buy from these companies.

When it comes to the companies that have just a few high hazardous ingredients in their products, you might be able to buy some of their products. You just have to go to the cosmetic database and look up the particular product that you want to buy, and see for yourself if it is safe to use. Some may be, and some may not.

Why am I exposing the truth about these companies? Because knowledge is power. The Age of Aquarius has to do with learning to take responsibility for our own actions so we can stop becoming victims.

Knowing the truth about the skincare industry gives you the option to NOT buy their products, simply because you love yourself too much to be willing to put your own health in jeopardy just to get rid of a few lines on your face.

Europe has already banned most of the hazardous chemicals that are still found in American beauty products because they no longer want to put harmful products on their skins. I wonder why we haven’t done the same? Could it be because women are still buying the stuff, chemicals and all? Could it be because we are afraid to be speak up? Times must change. If we all stop buying their toxic rubbish, they must change, too, if they want to stay in business, so don’t underestimate your power to make a difference! Together, we can make the world a better place for everyone.
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Did you know that it is not unusual to find things like mercury, lead, cyanide, formaldehyde, antifreeze, sulfates, phthalates, petroleum products and carcinogenic preservatives in almost every product you’ll find in the stores? (And in your bathroom!) I’m not kidding – this is the absolute truth! And the worst thing is, you’ll find most of these chemicals in organic products as well, products that you buy from your health food store in good faith!!!

If you don’t believe me, get your magnifying glass out and start reading the ingredient lists on the labels. Look at Jason, Alba Botanicals, Derma e, Arbonne (Note that Arbonne only lists “key ingredients” and nothing else! Why do you think that is???), Avon, Rachel Perry and whatever else you have in your bathroom. Rachel Perry even has a collagen cream that doesn’t even have collagen listed as one of the ingredients. (Never mind the fact that collagen molecules are too big to enter the skin anyway.)

This is deceit, pure and simple. You are willing to spend more money because you think the product is organic, healthy and good for you, and made with integrity and love, while the truth is, it is a business. The products are made to make money, and when there is a question of money, integrity often flies out the window. After all, business is business, and what the consumer wants, needs or thinks she is getting, becomes a secondary priority.

I have found a website where they have a huge database of the chemicals used in skincare products and a rating of how safe or dangerous they are. So, if you are wondering if one of the products you are using daily is safe to use, I’ll be happy to look into it and tell you the truth. Let me know which brand or product you want me to expose, and I’ll write a post about how many moderate or high risk substances it contains. Let’s expose the deceit in the makeup industry so that women will no longer be fooled by great advertising and empty words!

Remember, we are the only ones responsible for what we put on our skins! If we know the truth, we can no longer be fooled! And if we can no longer be fooled, the industry will have to change if they want to stay in business. Lets create the change we want!
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In the skincare and makeup industry, they don’t care if the products they produce are good for you or your body. All they care about is production costs and profits! The cheaper they can produce the products, the more money they can make, especially if they use cheap chemicals in the formulas instead of natural products. Some companies even try to dupe you into believing that chemicals are actually BETTER for you because they are produced in labs under controlled conditions, but nothing can be further from the truth. And on top of that, they even do animal testing, which I think is a crime and I hope they get back every bit of suffering they inflict, tenfold!!!!

Anyway, women aren’t stupid – we want some kind of value or benefit before we part with our money. So, they have made sure there are at least SOME good ingredients in their products. How about something organic? That will add some value. Yes, it is expensive, but very little is needed to be able to call something “organic.” Or perhaps something exotic, like pearl powder! Or peptides, or collagen! Since nobody will ask how much of a substance is in the recipe, or whether there is any proof that it actually has any effect on the skin, they can get away with adding just a little pinch, put it on the label, and charge big money. No wonder most of this stuff has very little, if any, effect at all!

So, why are we so willing to pay lots of money for a tiny amount of skin cream? Because we hope it will make a difference, we hope it will make us look younger and more beautiful by the minute. We pay because we are willing to buy “hope in a bottle!”

Unfortunately, what we usually end up with is a super-toxic carcinogenic mix of nasty chemicals with unpronouncable names. Do the products live up to their claims and give us what we hoped for? Most likely not. If you read the reviews for the most expensive products on the market, they are not necessarily good reviews from happy consumers. And, the chemicals they contain can seriously affect your health!

Why? Because your skin is like a big sieve with millions of little holes, or pores, that chemicals can leak through. Sooner or later they WILL end up in your bloodstream! Recently, they have even found parabens in breast cancer lumps, probably from deodorants!!! So much for thinking it was a safe preservative!

Therefore, skincare products should basically be made with edible ingredients, since you know a lot of it will end up in your bloodstream sooner or later. So, what chemicals would you be willing to sprinkle over your next meal? Parrafin? Formaldehyd? How about anti-freeze? Lead? Mercury? Carcinogenic parabens? Cyanide? No?

If none of these appeal to you, you need to have a serious look at the skincare products and makeup you are using. If this is what you are putting on your skin, it WILL end up inside your body as well, and who knows what it will do there. So, if you are not DYING to be beautiful, we need to create a list of natural skincare products that are actually good for us.

If you are interested in knowing what you can buy and use safely, let’s all contribute. If you tell me what products you are using, I’ll look it up in the cosmetic database and tell you how safe or dangerous they are. Let’s boycott the companies that create dangerous products! Are you with me?
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