How To Find The Toxins In Your Skincare

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1 How To Find The Toxins In Your Skincare (& why you want to know!) part 2: labeling mistruths!

2 Ok so we all know what labelling is but can we really tell what a product is from the label? Do we understand them? I m here to help with some basic information to get you started. Don t believe everything you read on a label! When you are purchasing food or personal care products, a label saying its "natural", "organic", or "botanical", might not always portray the real ethics of that business or whether everything in that product is actually natural. I know. Confusing isn't it. Why? Because the word organic, at the time of writing this, November 2017, is not regulated under Australian Law. Anyone can use it. Yep. It s organic cereal, organic haircare, organic skincare. You get the picture. It is so misleading because you, as a trusting person, think brilliant, I ll grab that, no chemicals, farmed ethically, not going to hurt me or the kids. WRONG! Because it is not regulated the manufacturer does not have to follow a set of standards or guidelines and they are not audited/checked by an independent 3rd party to make sure they are towing the line.

3 I have brought a hair shampoo with those exact same words on it ORGANIC yet when I got home and looked at the ingredients I was rather peeved that even I was blindsided. Methylchloroisothiazolinone & Methylisothiazonlinone These two were the preservatives in that Shampoo that I brought BIG Bold letters Organic. These are preservatives that when combined together are not good. They are also used in baby wipes and so many other products. Basically the outcome according to NICNAS when these ingredients were investigated - Further risk management is required. Sufficient information is available to recommend that risks to public health and safety from the potential use of the chemical in cosmetics and/or domestic products be managed through changes to the Poisons Standard, and risks for workplace health and safety be managed through changes to classification and labelling. NICNAS National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme is the Australian government's regulatory body for industrial chemicals. NICNAS is there to help protect workers, the public and the environment from the harmful effects of industrial chemicals. They promote the safe use of industrial chemicals by providing information and recommendations to other regulators. They work closely with a range of regulatory partners at all levels of government. They are saying there is "sufficient information and that further risk management is required". If they are even looking at an ingredient then it is an industrial chemical. Mmmmm not what I want on my skin..

4 So rather than wading through the miriad of information online you could just go and buy Certified Organic products and produce, couldn't you? Certified organic = to grow or manufacture a product free from synthetic pesticides, herbicides, hormones and antibiotics. Livestock must be free to range and pasture-fed, seed must be non-gm, and the process must be water efficient and biodiversity friendly. Producers, processors, manufacturers and retailers of food, drink, fibre, skincare and cosmetics can be certified organic 1 Back a few years now I lost faith in Certified Organic. Why? Because in my opinion, large companies jumped on the organic bandwagon and created certified organic products just for the sales. Yet there are existing companies out there who produce from the ground up, go through the long (3-5 years) certification process to become certified because they believe in protecting our Earth, they want to educate people, to grow sustainably to live sustainably, to make a product with Organic ingredients so you the consumer are not exposed to toxic chemicals. Yet a massive company can go hand pick ingredients from Certified Organic businesses, put them together into a product, create a sub business and then sell a Certified Organic product. Yes ok, this is a good thing for us in a way, BUT they don t care about the environment they just did it for the dollar - look at the other products they produce or support. I m not a fan of Certified Organic processed crap either by the way like chips. Where s the nourishment, it s dead. Just thought I d pop that in here. Not everything CO is good for our health.

5 If not Certified Organic then what? Well there is a set of guidelines that any supplier of cosmetic products must follow. All suppliers including manufacturers, importers, distributors and retailers must comply with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's (ACCC) mandatory standard for ingredient labelling on cosmetics. If you want to help, get a hold of this and read it. Find a product not complying, inform the ACCC as stated in the guidelines. It helps us all. Nats Quick Tip: What you need to do is look deeper, ask questions. Do they really farm ethically, do they really care for the land, our Earth. You might just find that a local farmer/ business is extremely steadfast about growing/creating produce in tune with Mother Nature. More so than a massive well known brand. You don t need any synthetic harmful products on your face or in your body. And unfortunately some products have these ingredients in them. Rule of thumb again...look at ingredient list and if you can't pronounce it, don't put it on your skin. Look at all the labels. The front, the back, the bottom. Oh and on some deodorants I ve noticed the ingredients are actually underneath the label, you have to physically unstick it (tamper with the product) to open the label to read it. I don t know how they get away with it.

6 Get back to basics, cook and make what you can with real ingredients. What you can t make, buy from someone who you can trust. a little bit of body text. You can have fantastic, natural products at an affordable price, made by a human who cares Oh and a heads up that free samples and testers are exempt under the Guidelines. So be cautious if you are not fully aware of that Companies ethos, their beliefs, before you try anything out. 1