Healthy, Natural, Organic Skin Care

There are so many products on the market that claim to be all natural, organic and healthy for you, but are far from it. The reason that these companies get away with that kind of marketing is because ... they can. The cosmetic and personal care industry is the least regulated and they take advantage of the consumer ... big time.

Here's one skin care product line that is truly natural, organic and healthy for you! Why not give it a try. You won't be disappointed.

Learn more about how to protect yourself from misleading marketing of unhealthy products.

Dying To Look Good Excerpt #14

Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association

The Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association (CTFA) is an industry organization supporting creative freedom in product development and self-regulation within the personal care product sector. It is the industry lobby at various government levels.

The CTFA International Buyers' Guide 2004 edition lists over 12,000 cosmetic chemicals according to INCI names cross-referencing them to more than 55,000 trade and technical names.

INCI, International Nomenclature Cosmetic Ingredient, standardizes the terminology for cosmetic chemical ingredients in the U.S., Europe, Japan and other countries throughout the world. Manufacturers use this guide to choose their ingredients for the cosmetics they produce. Most of the chemicals have not been tested for short-term or long-term toxic effects or for systemic effects. Many are contaminated with toxic by-products from manufacturing. Many are toxic themselves.

Learn how to determine which ingredients are safe and which are not so you can protect yourself and your family.

Healthy Mineral Makeup

A great deal of the makeup on the market today contains harmful ingredients. Some of these ingredients cause cancer.

If you're conscious about healthy cosmetics, you've probably already heard of mineral makeup as a safe alternative. However, not all mineral makeup is healthy.

Many of the mineral makeups are made from micronized minerals. Micronized minerals can be absorbed into the cell and damage the DNA. According to the National Center for Toxicological Research, these minerals have not been adequately tested, AND the technology to adequately test them does not even exist yet.

Healthy mineral makeup is made from crushed minerals. These minerals cannot be absorbed and will not damage your cells.

Learn more about crushed mineral makeup and how you can get yours today.

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The requirement to list cosmetic and personal care product ingredients on the label applies to retail products sold for home use. Products produced for use in salons, labeled "For Professional Use Only" and cosmetic and personal care product samples do not require the ingredients to be listed on the label. However, these products do require the name of the distributor, the quantity, and all necessary warning statements.

Find healthy skin care products here.

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According to EWG, "The regulatory vacuum in the U.S. gives cosmetic companies tremendous leeway in selecting ingredients, while it transfers potentially significant and largely unnecessary health risks to the users of the products."

Here's how to avoid these health risks when you choose the products you use.

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The FDA can make suggestions or recommendations to manufacturers about cosmetic products or their ingredients, but the manufacturers do not have to comply. The FDA must first prove in a court of law that a product is harmful, improperly labeled, or violates the law if it wants to remove a cosmetic product from the market.

Shop for truly safe and healthy cosmetics and personal care products.

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According to John Bailey, Ph.D., director of the FDA's Office of Cosmetics and Colors, "Consumers believe that 'if it's on the market, it can't hurt me,' and this belief is sometimes wrong."

Make sure the products you buy don't hurt you.

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Hair coloring products are among the most poorly regulated consumer products. There is no requirement to place a warning on the label of hair coloring products to inform consumers that these products cause cancer. Although the industry maintains that hair dyes are safe, there is a growing body of scientific evidence pointing to an increased risk of bladder cancer and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma associated with the use of permanent hair dyes.

If you just can't live with your natural hair color, find out which hair coloring products are safe in DYING TO LOOK GOOD.

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Cosmetic and personal care product manufacturers are not required to prove the claims they make about their products or to test their products for safety. However, if the product's safety has not been established, the product requires the label to state: "WARNING: The safety of this product has not been determined." According to EWG in their evaluation, they did not find a single product with this warning on the label.

Note: The absence of the warning from all labels does not mean that the industry is doing their job and proving their products are safe. They are just ignoring the requirement to place the warning on the label. You can find out why this is the case in Dying To Look Good.

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... the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act requires cosmetic manufacturers to list the ingredients on the label of every cosmetic and personal care product sold directly to consumers in descending order of quantity. In other words, the ingredient present in largest quantity appears first on the label and the ingredient present in the smallest quantity appears last.

Protect your health. Start reading labels on your cosmetics and personal care products and choose products with only safe ingredients.

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The cosmetics industry is very poorly regulated. The Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic (FD&C) Act does not require cosmetics and personal care products or their ingredients to be approved before they are marketed and sold to consumers. FDA regulations start after they are already in the marketplace. So, except for color additives and a few ingredients, which are banned, manufacturers may use whatever ingredients they choose in the cosmetics and personal care products they produce without approval from the FDA.

Learn how to make sure the products you choose contain safe and healthy ingredients.

Healthy Skin Care Products

A lot of skin care products on the market claim to be all natural and contain healthy ingredients, but if you read the ingredients list, you'll find that's not the case. Most will contain at least one or two objectionable ingredients, usually more.

It's very frustrating and disheartening for you, the consumer when you're making a conserted effort to avoid harmful ingredients and choose healthy products. Even many companies who have signed the Compact for Global Production of Safe and Healthy Beauty Products use ingredients in their products that are undesirable.

So how are you supposed to be able to confidently choose healthy cosmetics and skin care products? Even buying your products in a health food store does not guarantee that the ingredients will be safe and healthy.

Well, I've made it easy for you. In Dying To Look Good, I list 1300 ingredients commonly used in cosmetics and personal care products and rate them according to safety, and I also list 750 products that I have personally evaluated for safety. And to make it even easier for you, on DyingToLookGood.com, I have links to healthy products that you can feel confident that they contain safe and healthy ingredients. One of my favorite product lines is Deep Steep. Click the link and you'll even get a discount on your purchase.

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Continued from Excerpt #4 ...

• "Fifty-four products violate recommendations for safe use set by the industry's self-regulating Cosmetic Ingredient Review (CIR) board."
• And nearly all the products (99.6%) "contain one or more ingredients never assessed for potential health impacts by the CIR."

Read more in Dying To Look Good. Find healthy products online and in the book.

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Continued from Excerpt #3...

• "Fifty-five percent of all products assessed contain 'penetration enhancers,' ingredients that can increase a product's penetration through the skin and into the bloodstream, increasing consumers' exposures to other ingredients as well." Fifty of these products also contained "penetration enhancers in combination with known or probable human carcinogens."
• "Nearly 70 percent of all products contain ingredients that can be comtaminated with impurities linked to cancer and other health problems."
• ...

To be continued ...

Learn how to protect yourself from harmful ingredients. Shop for healthy products that you can feel confident contain only safe and healthy ingredients.

Dying To Look Good Excerpt #3

In 2004, the Environmental Working Group evaluated the ingredients in 7,500 personal care products for safety. They found that:

• "One of every 120 products on the market contains ingredients certified by government authorities as known or probable human carcinogens, including shampoos, lotions, make-up foundations, and lip balms."
• "Seventy-one hair dye products contain ingredients derived from carcinogenic coal tar."
• ...

To be continued ...

Learn more right now and choose safe and healthy products here.

Healthy Deodorant

A great many deodorants on the market contain harmful ingredients that can be absorbed from your armpits directly into your blood stream. Are you risking your health with your undearm protection? Discover which ingredients to avoid in your deodorant so you can protect yourself.

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"Many of the ingredients used in cosmetics and personal care products are toxic, even though they may not cause any reactions on the skin. Some cause cancer. Some of the most commonly used ingredients combine with other ingredients to form cancer-causing substances."

Read more in Dying To Look Good. Learn how to get your copy here.

Excerpts from Dying To Look Good #1

"Your health is affected not only by what you put into your body in terms of food, drink, drugs and nutritional supplements, but also by what you put on your body. Your skin is not an impenetrable barrier as was thought years ago. We now know that all chemicals that come in contact with the skin can penetrate the skin in varying degrees. Many of the chemicals that can be absorbed through the skin have been detected in the bloodstream."

Learn more about Dying To Look Good and how you can benefit from the extensive research that went into this book.

Your Deodorant – Is There Danger Lurking Within?

You just got out of the shower and reached for your favorite deodorant. You like it because it smells nice and it keeps your underarms dry and odor free. You've used it for a long time. But did you ever read the ingredients on the label and wonder about the safety of the almost unpronounceable chemicals listed in the too tiny to read print?

If not, you're like most people. You don't expect to find products on store shelves that contain harmful ingredients. But beware. The ingredients in many deodorant products could endanger your health.

Certainly, you've heard in the news recently about the possible association with deodorants and breast cancer. Maybe you've even heard about the possibility that aluminum in deodorants may contribute to Alzheimer's disease. And you may or may not know about ingredients which act like estrogen and can upset your hormonal balance.

Perhaps you've heard all these things and just shrugged them off. After all how could companies sell these products if they're not safe? The manufacturers certainly must test the ingredients and the products before they put them on the market, right? Well, not exactly! The law does not require manufacturers to test their products for safety. In fact, except for colors and a few banned ingredients, manufacturers can use any raw material they want as an ingredient in your deodorant. Most of the ingredients used in deodorant and other personal care products have not been fully tested. Many have never been tested at all.

The industry, in an attempt to make it look like it's acting in the interest of consumer safety, formed the Cosmetic Ingredient Review in 1976 to evaluate the safety of ingredients used in cosmetics and personal care products. However, in the 29 years up to June 2005, they performed safety assessments on only about 10% of the ingredients allowed in cosmetic and personal care products, including deodorants, and never evaluated one third of the 50 most commonly used ingredients.

But, you might add, the FDA wouldn't allow companies to sell unsafe products to the public, right? Well, in theory! While the FDA urges manufacturers to conduct the tests necessary to substantiate the safety of their products, the law does not require manufacturers to test their products for safety. The FDA doesn't approve deodorants and antiperspirants or any other cosmetic or skin care products before they reach the marketplace. The FDA can only have a product removed from the market if they can prove it harmful in a court of law.

So, what does this mean for you? Does it mean you should stop using deodorant? What can you do to protect yourself? Well, you have several options. You can discover the secret to reading ingredient labels and ascertaining ingredient safety, making yourself a master of choosing products without harmful ingredients. You can ask someone who knows to recommend a safe deodorant or antiperspirant. Or you can get adventuresome and learn how to make your own.

Now, it really isn't necessary to go to the time and trouble of making your own, unless of course you want to. You can find healthy deodorant products in stores or online if you know how to read labels and determine ingredient safety. Once an almost impossible task for the average person, but no more. Now you can easily master the art of label reading and interpretation with the book, Dying To Look Good. It gives you the keys to deciphering the safety of the ingredients on the label of your deodorant and other personal care products as well as providing names of healthy products and where you can buy them.

To discover which ingredients to watch out for in your deodorant and to find out my top recommendation for a healthy deodorant, read Deodorant - Top 7 Ingredients to Avoid.

© 2006 Dr. Christine H. Farlow, D.C., "The Ingredients Investigator" and author of Dying To Look Good, providing information on how to protect yourself from harmful ingredients in deodorant and other personal care products at DyingToLookGood.com.

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