And This Is Legal?-The Ugly Truth About Body Care Products (For Men Too)

[posey]

The Ugly Truth About Body Care Products (For Men Too)
Submitted by Lois Rain on June 13, 2011 – 10:43 pm

The beauty (or handsome) industry reveals its ugly side with its unbridled use of the most toxic ingredients know to man, woman, and babykind. Below you will find a great video and print outs that concisely sum up the story of what goes into your products and why it’s allowed. One of the printouts dispels widely believed myths like “just a little bit won’t hurt, right?” and “it doesn’t really get into my body.” Toxicity tests will show otherwise.

It’s the company’s responsibility to report toxicity problems with their products but they justify carcinogens like lead by figuring that they are in such low amounts, they couldn’t possibly harm people even though they harm mammals in tests. No one regulates them! Products for men and sadly BABIES are not exempt from poisonous ingredients like petro-chemicals.

What’s really insidious is the companies that pretend to “go green” or “natural” when those labels have no legal bearing. Even worse is what’s called “Pink washing.” A company “goes pink” by marketing its support for something like breast cancer research while you pay for its cancer-causing product!

Much like the author, HFA is concerned by the video’s suggestion to push for the FDA to have more regulatory powers on cosmetics. We’ve seen how the FDA handles our health concerns and this would only open the door for them to crack down on organic body care products. One solution is don’t support those companies and put that junk in your body!

~Health Freedoms

The Story of Cosmetics: The Ugly Truth of ‘Toxics In. Toxics Out.’ (video)
If you saw The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard, then you won’t be able to resist watching her take on the chemicals in cosmetics. It all comes down to toxics in, toxics out.
by Heidi Stevenson
12 June 2011

Toxics in, toxics out—into products, workers, communities, and babies. We’re all loaded with toxins. Babies are even born preloaded with the junk. This video by is fun to watch while it blows the whistle on the corruption of an industry that markets toxic chemicals as organic and natural. Pink washing is outed, along with naming corporate names, like Estee Lauder.

There aren’t even any Cosmetics Safety Standards in the US! First watch the video, then below it are links to two documents for more information and information on what you can do.

The Story of Cosmetics:
Personal Care Products Myth and Facts
(PDF file)



The Story of Cosmetics:
Frequently Asked Questions
(PDF file)

Gaia Health is a bit concerned about the solution proposed, because it’s a petition asking congress to give the FDA more powers. The FDA is an agency that’s already out of control, and granting more power is not a solution. I recommend contacting your representative in the House and your senators to tell them that you want a new regulatory agency with the power to provide true information about the dangers associated with chemicals in cosmetics, and to protect workers, the environment, and the public from them.

Source:

The Story of Cosmetics: The Ugly Truth of 'Toxics In. Toxics Out.' (video)

Note: Make-up artist Kat James is heralded in the alternative health community for teaching how to transform beauty from the inside out, including self-beliefs. She used nutrition to transform her outer beauty and entire life. She teaches about diet, makeup-less makeovers and more. Learn more at informedbeauty.com

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I'd rather have my Maypo then some of these products. Maypo Credits: taken and used form another Members post, namely Baraka

[posey]

Video is excellent.

[sojii]

That also needs to be a warning about putting so-called non-toxic things on your skin, too. There seems to be a general misconception that if it only goes on the skin and isn't ingested or injected, it can't do systemic damage and that's totally false. What goes on the skin, goes into the body.

[jeanlong]

yeah most USA body care products are laden with toxic stuff that can get into the bloodstream through skin-absorption. That big list of carcinogens, mutagens and infertility-causing chemicals was reviewed in 2005, then banned in the EU and China in 2006. All those products were reformulated by big companies, then those products were phased out in other countries and anything not sold was brought to the USA for us, the unaware consumer. The FDA took the opposite position - nothing would be banned until absolutely, irrefutably proven to be mutagenic or carcinogenic.

This is partly an economic issue since the other countries place the health of the citizens as a high value. There are two reasons for this and is something I've been studying and complaining about for a long time. first we have corproate profits here and corporations constantly lobby against anything that could mar profits - example lead paint was banned here in 1978 but in Australia it was banned in the 1920's. Ditto this will be a similar trend for cosmetics - it's partly about law but really it comes to consumer trends. . . . when people complain enough and use their consumer dollars to buy non-toxics the companies making the toxic stuff will become less profitable. The second reason is that countries with socialized medicine pick up the cost of overall ill health faster and it is not a privatized for-profit health care, so they are more strongly motivated to ditch environmental poisons. For this reason also they ban toxic stuff such as cadmium in electronics because it eventually gets into landfill.

I advocate buying nontoxic stuff (food, cosmetics, floor coverings, textiles, kitchen items) and have taken this position for decades. A problem is partly about not knowing what is, and is not nontoxic. Slow Death by Rubber Duck is in my local library and is a fascinating read. Similar books addressing body care products will be on your library shelf if you want to learn about it. Science magazines constantly have new info on this too.

After becoming ill with M I quit using any storebought body care products except for Dr Bronners. Household cleaning products were drastically boxed up and placed in the garage to avoid toxic halogens from chlorinated cleansers from possibly disrupting my endocrine system. This all helped me to feel and become less toxic.