Beauty Secrets From The Kitchen

Today, it is easier to find skin and hair care products with improved formulations using natural ingredients with less chemical residue. However, for price-conscious consumers, there is still a cheaper alternative without compromising their beauty regimen.

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Greenwashing, Are You Being Mislead?

More and more of us value organic products or green products. We will choose them over other products whenever we can. But of course the manufacturers have caught on to this and they are now trying to trick us into thinking that their product is organic or green while it is not. I have talked about the  cosmetics industry several times and how a skin care products can be labeled “organic” but when you  turn the bottle around and read the small print you find out that the product contains less than 10% organic ingredients and the rest is just as toxic as an other product. The choices of really good natural and organic skin care products is very limited.

In ONEgourps latest organic newsletter they talk about green washing.  The act of misleading consumers regarding the environmental practices of a company or the environmental benefits of a product or service.

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Dye Your Eggs Naturally

You don’t need to go to the store and buy artificial egg dye. You can find a lot of natural colors in your own kitchen.

I find natural colors more beautiful.

To make your eggs even more fun by putting on stickers before you adding them in the dye. Carefully scrape off the sticker when your egg is done. Now you have a colored egg with a white figure from the sticker.

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No More Plastic Bags

According to Greenpeace around 100 million tonnes of plastic are produced each year. Somewhere between 500 billion and a trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year. Who many to you use each year?

In these plastic bag facts you can read that just 6 bags a week adds up to 22,176 bags in a lifetime.

You can find cloth bags in most stores today. But if you if you’re looking for something special, like the eyecatching tote bag on the image. Go to Reusablebags.com. Of for a more eco-minimalistic look try GreenKit .

The Black Sheep of the Organic Industry

When will we start putting REAL demands on the cosmetics and skin care industry?

The organic industry is booming. We buy more and more organic foods. We search for organic clothing, and organic gardening is becoming really popular.

One industry that has been left out is the cosmetics industry. Sure there is mineral makeup and products that are called “natural” or “organic”.

But what do the words “natural” or “organic” mean to the cosmetics industry?

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Fake Organic Skincare

Now who do we trust?

I just read that the Attorney General of California has filed a lawsuit against:

• Avalon Natural
• Whole Foods Market California
• Beaumont Products
• Nutribiotic

This because they have failed to give clear and reasonable warning of the presence of 1,4-Dioxane in their products.

Under the states Proposition 65 consumer products should not expose consumers to chemicals known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity without giving clear and reasonable warning. And when adding 1,4-Dioxane in their products Avalon Natural and the others failed to follow the law.

Is 1,4-Dioxane bad?

Water containing 1,4-dioxane causes cancer in lab rats.

Studies in animals have shown that skin contact with 1,4-dioxane can result in liver and kidney damage.

Even big companies that market themselves an natural and better are not to be trusted.

I always thought that natural meant existing in or formed by nature -not artificial.

But the industry standard has become that natural is any ingredient derived from something natural. Derived with a synthetic process. They can make “natural” vanilla aroma from cow dung. I wish natural could be not artificial and stop having to feel like I need to check and double check everything I buy.

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