How to Pick Skin Care Companies???
What a Dilemma!

Have you ever gone into a large department store and been overwhelmed with the choices of skin care companies and all of their products? Or how about the skin care products that you can purchase through the "home parties"?

Do the skin care companies have our best interests at heart?

I never even realized that I should be checking ingredients and heaven forbid, I didn't know what the word parabens meant.

After reading many articles and ingredient labels, I became quite informed about the ingredients skin care companies use. Read here for further explanation.

There are a couple of great websites that are very informative and well worth checking out, especially to see the ratings of the products you use.

The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is a coalition of women’s, public health, labor, environmental health and consumer-rights groups. Their goal is to protect the health of consumers and workers by requiring the health and beauty industry to phase out the use of chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects and other health problems, and replace them with safer alternatives.

Personal care products like shampoo, conditioner, after shave, lotion and makeup are not regulated by the FDA or any other government agency. It is perfectly legal and very common for companies to use ingredients that are known or suspected to be carcinogens, mutagens or reproductive toxins in the their products. Consumers buy these products at drug stores, grocery stores, online or in salons, usually without questioning the product’s safety.

They are asking cosmetics and personal care products companies to sign the Compact for Safe Cosmetics (also known as the Compact for the Global Production of Safer Health and Beauty Products), a pledge to remove toxic chemicals and replace them with safer alternatives in every market they serve. As of August 2007, 600 companies have signed the Compact -- and that number increases every day!

Skin Deep is an online cosmetic safety database that provides safety information on over 7,000 ingredients used in nearly 25,000 products – a quarter of all products on the market. Product ingredients are cross-referenced against 50 toxicity databases from around the world. Companies – and consumers – can use Skin Deep to generate comprehensive reports detailing out any adverse health impacts linked to exposure to that chemical. Individual Compact signers are required to enter their products into Skin Deep, making safety information on their ingredients publicly available, within one year of signing the Compact. In addition, they must routinely enter information about reformulated products as well as new products.Skin Deep is also a powerful research tool for companies. Within six months of signing the Compact, they must conduct an ingredient inventory to generate an initial assessment of known and suspected health hazards associated with each ingredient in their products – including potential impurities.

U.S. laws don't protect us because there are major loopholes in federal law allowing the $35 billion cosmetics industry to put unlimited amounts of chemicals into antiaging skin care products and other personal care products with no required testing, no monitoring of health effects, and inadequate labeling requirements.

BE AWARE! Look into the skin care companies list of ingredients. Check out the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics website and the Skin Deep website and look up the products you are using.

If you have questions, Contact Me.

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