October 16, 2007
Use Organic Skin Care In Pregnancy
No it’s not compulsory, but the cosmetics and hair care products that you normally use can affect your baby. For example, would you believe that in your normal beauty and hair regimes you could be applying more than 200 different chemicals to your body?
So ‘going organic’ may make a great deal of sense when you consider that anything you put on your skin will be absorbed into your body, and what is in your body can also pass into your growing baby.
There is no evidence that using organic beauty products can do something for your skin that regular products can’t. Although if you can avoid using the petroleum derivatives and waxes along with the synthetic fillers found in conventional skin care then it may prevent the possibility of some of these chemical nasties finding their way to your baby’s skin and causing any skin sensitivities.
To claim a product is organic, it must be made with at least 95% organically grown produce, while to claim that it has been made with organic ingredients, it must contain over 70% organically grown produce. But where does organic end and natural ingredients start?
For The Soil Association, organic ingredients are grown without the use of […]
