Safe Cosmetics - Part 2

It is our natural state to aspire to look and feel the best we are capable of. It helps in our business and personal lives. But, do we need to give up our health? Find safe alternatives for your beauty products.

3. The government should be protecting us, but it's not.
Major loopholes in federal law prevent the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or any other government agency from approving the safety of cosmetics and body care products before they can be sold. The European Union now bans more than 1,100 chemicals from personal care products because they may cause cancer, birth defects or reproductive problems. In stark contrast, just 10 ingredients are banned from cosmetics in the United States.

One-third of personal care products contain at least one chemical linked to cancer, according to the Skin Deep report by the Environmental Working Group, a partner in the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics.

Note: I recently read that many thousands of women develop lung cancer, even if they have never smoked. Could it be from the ocean of carcinogenic ingredients that we are using daily, morning and evening on our hair, skin and face? Think about this the next time you enter the cosmetics counter in the department or pharmacy store.

4. You can't believe the industries safety claims.
Manufacturers say their products are safe. But what do those claims really mean? It may mean that the company has tested the ingredients it uses—but only to determine if the chemicals cause rashes, swelling or other acute reactions. Companies are not required to test the ingredients in their products to determine if they cause longterm, negative health effects, such as cancer or the inability to have a healthy child. Since there is no government standard for safety, companies can say whatever they want about the safety of their products.

Ingredients in personal care products in the U.S.: 10,500. Portion of chemical ingredients in cosmetics that have been assessed for health and safety by the industry’s self-policing safety panel: 11%

Note: Your self-education and daily purchases toward healthier, safer cosmetic and body care products are the only way this type of deception will change. With the many billions of dollars at stake, what is the incentive to care about our health.

Tana Dean is an ecopreneur, her internet eco business TanaDean.com also includes a monthly enewsletter and blogs. Her book Your Money, Your Power: 10 Ideas for Mindful Spending to Create a Healthy, Green Planet, empowers people to use their daily purchasing decisions and actions to positively change our environment, corporate responsibility and health. Purchase Certified Organic Skin Care.

Safe Cosmetics - Part 1

Educate yourself with this group of blogs to help you become aware and direct your skin care and cosmetic purchases into safer products. This is taken from www.safecosmetics.com. Use this site to find out how your products rate for safety.

1. Toxic Chemicals are in our beauty products AND in our bodies.
Everyday we use multiple personal care products—from shampoo to deodorant, lotion to make-up—that contain chemical ingredients that are absorbed through the skin, inhaled or ingested. So it’s not surprising that potentially harmful chemicals have gotten into our bodies, our breast milk and our children. Some of these chemicals are linked to cancer, birth defects, learning disabilities and other health problems that are epidemic in our society. Astonishingly, in the United States, 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women are expected to develop cancer during their lifetimes, according to the National Cancer Institute.

Note: It surprises me that people are not more alarmed at the National Cancer Institutes statistics. We give, walk and donate to an industry that dismisses all of the chemicals and carginogenic ingredients that we use daily on our bodies and in our homes. So, when you see disease statistics that are 'astonishing', maybe it's the products we use. Corporations will only respond when our spending is redirected toward safer products.

2. Small exposures can add up to harm.
The cosmetics industry says it’s safe to put toxic chemicals linked to cancer, infertility or other health problems into personal care products because the amount in each product is too small to matter. But none of us use just one product. Think about how many products you use in a single day—from toothpaste to soap, shampoo, hair conditioner, deodorant, body lotion, shaving products and makeup—and how many products you use in a year, and over a lifetime. Small amounts of toxic chemicals add up and can accumulate in our bodies. Chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects do not belong in personal care products, period.

Note: When I was writing my book, Your Money, Your Power: 10 Ideas for Mindful Spending to Create a Healthy, Green Planet, I was really concerned about the NUMBER of chemicals we ingest in 1 day and I could not find any studies that have taken a look at chemical or carcinogenics when used with one another. No one seems to know the harm our bodies and the environment are subjected to daily with 1,000's of chemicals. The US lags far behind the European Union in protecting us from harmful, carcinogenic ingredients. The European Union has banned 1,000+ cosmetic ingredients while the US has banned only 10!

Tana Dean is an ecopreneur, her internet eco business TanaDean.com also includes a monthly enewsletter and blogs. Her book Your Money, Your Power: 10 Ideas for Mindful Spending to Create a Healthy, Green Planet, empowers people to use their daily purchasing decisions and actions to positively change our environment, corporate responsibility and health. Purchase Certified Organic Skin Care.

Why is Certified Organic Skin Care Important?

My years in the skin care business have taught me alot. My years at practicing healthy lifestyle has taught me alot. And, still there is more to learn and the compelling need to practice organic lifestyles for our personal and planets health just become ever more important.

Organic food is so important and yet, particularly women, spend billions of dollars on skin care and makeup with not a thought about how it is made or what is in it. Whatever you place on your skin is absorbed into your body. You will learn as this blog continues.

However, I always like to discuss solutions when there is an issue that needs to be resolved and finding a company that offers certified organic skin care is a resolution with many added health benefits to complete your practice of creating and building health inside and out.

Here are the benefits of certified organic skin care:

• Independent third party guarantee of quality and purity of ingredients.
• Safe, clean and potent plant extracts of high quality.
• Sustainable agriculture that respects, supports and nurtures the complete ecology and energy of our planet.
• Authenticity and integrity of 'organic' and 'natural' claims.
• Prevention of damage to the environment and humans by the poisonous chemicals used in conventional agriculture.

Explore this Certified Organic Skin Care line and keep it in mind before you visit your pharmacy or department store.

Tana Dean is an ecopreneur, her internet eco business TanaDean.com also include a monthly enewsletter and blogs. She is also the author of Your Money, Your Power: 10 Ideas for Mindful Spending.

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Tana Dean is an ecopreneur with a eco internet business TanaDean.com. She is also the author of Your Money, Your Power: 10 Ideas for Mindful Spending