Comments on: Why You Need To Read Ingredient Lists Carefully http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/02/07/why-you-need-to-read-ingredient-lists-carefully/ Cosmetic chemists answer your beauty product questions! We are a group of cosmetic scientists who understand what the chemicals used in cosmetics really do, how products are tested, and what all the advertising means. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:15:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ashley http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/02/07/why-you-need-to-read-ingredient-lists-carefully/comment-page-1/#comment-47182 Ashley Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:59:47 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/02/07/why-you-need-to-read-ingredient-lists-carefully/#comment-47182 it sucks to use a hair product that you think is really good but then later you find out it doesn't clean your hair properly. it sucks to use a hair product that you think is really good but then later you find out it doesn’t clean your hair properly.

]]> By: Suzanne http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/02/07/why-you-need-to-read-ingredient-lists-carefully/comment-page-1/#comment-47179 Suzanne Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:45:28 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/02/07/why-you-need-to-read-ingredient-lists-carefully/#comment-47179 Where have I been all this time? Brains, I love your pragmatic scientific approach to beauty. But I do think there is something to calendula, aloe and perhaps even carrot juice. Calendula and aloe, purely because while their efficacy may be anecdotal both have been used for centuries so you have to think there must be something to them and as for the carrot juice wouldn't the beta carotene help in some way? It's the proportions which make its efficacy questionable. The amount of carrot juice required to do anything would surely turn your skin orange LOL so as you say this ingredient is "fluff". And what about the flavinoids in the grape?? What you never hear about is extraction processes for naturla ingredients. Isn't there a hell of a lot of processing going on to produce the many natural extracts being used. Seems to me that natural isn't that natural anyway. Where have I been all this time? Brains, I love your pragmatic scientific approach to beauty. But I do think there is something to calendula, aloe and perhaps even carrot juice. Calendula and aloe, purely because while their efficacy may be anecdotal both have been used for centuries so you have to think there must be something to them and as for the carrot juice wouldn’t the beta carotene help in some way? It’s the proportions which make its efficacy questionable. The amount of carrot juice required to do anything would surely turn your skin orange LOL so as you say this ingredient is “fluff”. And what about the flavinoids in the grape??
What you never hear about is extraction processes for naturla ingredients. Isn’t there a hell of a lot of processing going on to produce the many natural extracts being used. Seems to me that natural isn’t that natural anyway.

]]> By: Kat http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/02/07/why-you-need-to-read-ingredient-lists-carefully/comment-page-1/#comment-40377 Kat Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:11:03 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/02/07/why-you-need-to-read-ingredient-lists-carefully/#comment-40377 I think you missed my point. The idea is not for those in the third world to grow organic food small-scale BUT rather to grow the organic ingredients used for cosmetics, sell them, fair trade, to companies and then in turn use that money to raise food for themselves. Organic cosmetics are more expensive but as long as we proactively support and insist upon fair trade practices with those growing the ingredients, a lot of good can come of it. Of course there are issues with fair trade, but a rising interest and concern about where we get our fancy products from cannot be knocked. Yeah, people still shop at the Gap despite the proven link to sweatshop/child labor, but knowledge truly is power. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. I think you missed my point. The idea is not for those in the third world to grow organic food small-scale BUT rather to grow the organic ingredients used for cosmetics, sell them, fair trade, to companies and then in turn use that money to raise food for themselves. Organic cosmetics are more expensive but as long as we proactively support and insist upon fair trade practices with those growing the ingredients, a lot of good can come of it.

Of course there are issues with fair trade, but a rising interest and concern about where we get our fancy products from cannot be knocked. Yeah, people still shop at the Gap despite the proven link to sweatshop/child labor, but knowledge truly is power.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

]]> By: thebeautybrains http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/02/07/why-you-need-to-read-ingredient-lists-carefully/comment-page-1/#comment-40367 thebeautybrains Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:20:13 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/02/07/why-you-need-to-read-ingredient-lists-carefully/#comment-40367 Organic farming doesn't produce as much food as standard farming techniques. If the world tried to implement it on a large scale, we'd run out of food. Organic farming doesn’t produce as much food as standard farming techniques. If the world tried to implement it on a large scale, we’d run out of food.

]]> By: Kat http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/02/07/why-you-need-to-read-ingredient-lists-carefully/comment-page-1/#comment-40343 Kat Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:42:58 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2007/02/07/why-you-need-to-read-ingredient-lists-carefully/#comment-40343 "Lack of compassion"? Emmy was explaining how the rising popularity of organic products can serve to better the lives of those in 3rd world countries. Sure, organic can be expensive but the suppliers of the organically produced ingredients (more and more often those farmers in the third world) stand to benefit. Don't drink the Kool-Aid! Priceless! I think someone wasn't around for the 1970s... “Lack of compassion”? Emmy was explaining how the rising popularity of organic products can serve to better the lives of those in 3rd world countries. Sure, organic can be expensive but the suppliers of the organically produced ingredients (more and more often those farmers in the third world) stand to benefit.

Don’t drink the Kool-Aid! Priceless! I think someone wasn’t around for the 1970s…

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