Sunday, August 22, 2010

Would You Wash Your Face with Gasoline?


Look at the ingredients on all those skin products out there, from moisturizers to sunscreens to shampoos, you’ll find health-threatening chemicals–propylene glycol, parabens, PABA, PEG, and mineral oil everywhere.

These chemicals pose real dangers to your health, including cancer. And, sadly they are FDA approved and labeled as healthy.

Did you know that mineral oil is a “by-product in the distillation of petroleum to produce gasoline”? And, did you know that baby oil is just mineral oil with fragrance?

Johnson’s Baby Shampoo “No More Tears” formula contains cocamidopropyl betaine, PEG-80 sorbitan laurate, sodium trideceth sulfate, PEG-150 distearate, polyquaternium-10, polyquaternium-10, tTetrasodikum EDTA, quaternium-15, and others.

Does this sound like something you want to use on your baby?
Not sure what any of these ingredients are....just google them and be prepared to be shocked!!
For instance,Cocamidopropyl betaine was voted 2004 Allergen of the Year by the American Contact Dermatitis Society.

PEG-80 sorbitan laurate.....Not safe for use on injured or damaged skin....What!!??? ...are they kidding??..babies always have a rash of some kind not to mention getting the soap in their eyes and so in to the body it goes....unbelievable!! I laugh when I hear Johnson's..."A family Company" and than I shudder because it is not funny in the least but these companies can afford the commercials to hoodwink everyone into believing their products are safe!!


Even many of the so-called “natural” cosmetics and skin creams are loaded with potentially harmful chemicals.

I feel that I need to inform and educate everyone on the dangers lurking in our health care products. I am not doing this to promote my business but it IS why I started my own soap and skin care business in the first place!!

2 comments:

  1. Have you ever been to this site?
    http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/
    You can search for virtually any product (cosmetics, hair care, etc.) and see it's rank on a scale of 1-10. They even list the ingredients of concern and why.

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  2. Thanks for this - I recently got some natural soap from Simply Soaps after hearing about natural soaps larger advantages - and you've just confirmed that natural soaps are a lot healthier for you - thanks!

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