April 25, 2007
Chemical Free, Natural Skin Care - How Can You be Sure?
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People are having adverse reactions from their skin care products and our bodies are getting bombarded with potentially toxic substances it can not eliminate.
Wildcrafted Herbal Products have been actively taking part in educating the general public and informing them of the potential dangers of not reading the labels carefully and just buying their skin care products based on advertising slogans and marketing strategies which are often misleading if not down right false…
Below is the report (in part) which was aired on Channel Seven’s Today Tonight:
Expert warns of toxic cosmetics
REPORTER: Glenn Connley
BROADCAST DATE: September 21, 2005 - viewable at: Wildcrafted Herbal Products have been saying now for 20 years and is the reason why all our skin and personal care products are formulated by a medical herbalist and Aromatherapist, and why only herbal extracts and pure essential oils (as opposed to isolated, extracted active ingredients) are used.
After all, you don’t add a beat-carotene tablet to your salad instead of a carrot, do you…?
Also be careful of terms such as hypo allergenic, which are marketing terms and really have no meaning what so ever - you can be allergic to anything, even the most natural, purest form of a substance - peanuts are natural, possibly even organic, but if you’re allergic to them you will have a reaction, which could kill you. It’s that simple.
In some brands of Natural skin care, Natural can mean the addition of one natural ingredient to a cocktail of ‘un-natural’ chemicals; Organic can be as little as 1 per cent organic content…
Tip! Identifying the correct, natural skin care system for your skin’s characteristics is essential and may need to be adjusted depending on your specific genetic influences, as within each of these groups, there is a wide range in skin tones, which tend to overlap from group to group.
Doctor Dingle named a danger list of ingredients to avoid.
1. Formaldehyde, an industrial chemical linked to burning eyes, nose and throat, rashes, coughing and nausea.
2. SLS, or sodium lauryl sulphate, which can reportedly affect the brain, eyes, heart and liver.
3 and 4. DEA and TEA, di- and tri-thanolamine, used as wetting agents in creams and shampoos, linked in research with stomach, oesophagus, liver and bladder cancers.
5. Propylene glycol, used as a humidifier in cosmetics, which has been connected with liver abnormalities and kidney damage.
“Sometimes its just the combination of chemicals,” Dr Dingle said. “And there are so many combinations that it’s just impossible to actually pick out a chemical that could be causing the problem.”
In Anna Bragaglia’s case, the chemical was PPD, or paraphenylenediamine, used in hair dyes.
“My son came into my room early in the morning and he just looked at me and he started crying, and he said ‘Mummy, what’s wrong with your face?’,” Anna said.
Anna had put a burgundy tint through her hair at her hairdresser. Within a day, the swelling and pain was unbelievable, she said.
“I think people need to be more aware of the dangers because it has become a society where everyone’s high on looks and everything like that,” Anna said.
“So I really think that people need to look into that, read more about it before they start using products which are available from the supermarket shelf and chemists.”
Take a look at: www.wildcrafted.com.au/Chemicals%20in%20Skin%20Care.html entitled ‘Chemicals in skin care’ - This article contains a long list of chemicals commonly found in popular skin care products and you should definitely avoid them.
Danny Siegenthaler is a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine and together with his wife Susan, a medical herbalist and Aromatherapist, they have created Natural Skin Care Products by Wildcrafted Herbal Products to share their 40 years of combined expertise with you.
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1 Comment on Chemical Free, Natural Skin Care - How Can You be Sure? »
February 14, 2009
maria mills @ 12:08 am:
My face cream has powerful antioxidants because it actually contains real blue berries. . .its from this organic and chemical free company called Made from Earth - Three Berry Face Cream. It has actual berries in it which are mixed with the lotion and applied to your face. Plus, I have sensitive skin and don’t put any chemicals in my body, and this one of the few face creams I have found that is 100% chemical free . .
Seriously - toxic synthetic chemicals in your lotions are not necessary. Human skin is porous which means that substances we put on our skin are absorbed directly into our bloodstream. This means these chemicals may end up in your liver or other organs. The Made from Earth skin care line is my favorite and I use the organic Adagio for shampoo