In honor of earth day and last week’s introduction of the Safe Chemicals Act to Congress (yay!), I wanted to touch again on why using natural cosmetic products is so important. Toxic chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects are widespread in beauty products – and in our bodies. When you combine the fact that the average women use 12 personal care products a day (putting her in contact with 165 different chemicals!) and 60% of what touches our skin is absorbed into our body, it’s easy to understand why many experts believe that our chemical exposure is contributing to the rise in cancer rates and childhood developmental disorders.
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Last week’s introduction of the Safe Chemicals Act (which has been in the works for 10+ years!) aims to reform our toxics law and force companies to show that their chemicals are kid-safe before they are put on the market. In an earlier post I wrote about the EWG finding close to 300 chemicals in umbilical cord blood, including BPA, perchlorate, fire retardants, lead, mercury, and PCBs. With this new legislation, these unacceptable findings will be a thing of the past! This new law would empower the EPA to regulate these chemicals, and it also establishes new research programs to help us better understand the risk toxic industrial chemicals pose to children. Finally, putting our health and safety first!!!
Even with this giant step forward, real change is still years away. We need to remember the power we have as consumers – by choosing natural products, we are helping to push the big beauty players to switch to natural ingredients. Consider the impact – in California alone, more than 220 tons of personal care products are sold daily in the state – including 52 tons of hair spray, 24 tons of styling gel and 12 tons of fragrance! So if you haven’t tried out a natural cosmetics brand yet, now is the time!
During the week of 4/19 – 4/25 glow.com and dermstore.com will be donating 5% of sales from natural and organic brands to earthday.org, with a minimum donation of $1000. If you’ve never used mineral makeup, I have to encourage you to give Raw Natural Minerals a try. It’s the only mineral makeup formulated with active botanicals that produce real anti-aging benefits! Try it with a natural skincare product like Raw Skincare Ambiaty Daily Revitalizing Cream. My skin loves this combo and for the week of Earth week you can enter in the promo code RAWEARTH at checkout on glow.com for a 20% discount! Happy Shopping!!
Tags: beauty products, cosmetics, mineral makeup, Natural & Organic
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