Comments on: Can You Tell If Your Cosmetics Are Really Natural Or Not?

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:35:37 +0000

I think the debate on certified in natural is probably not even worth looking at in any depth until every country in the world has a natural standard – it is better to look at Organic standards as these are now more pertinent to the “natural” argument. And to those of you that questioned the certification process please go onto my blog at http://www.jasminskincare.com/blog and make sure you ask me some questions. The fact of the matter is that companies claiming ORganic status by certification companies such as USDA (US) and BSA (UK) and OFC (AUS) DO undergo a fairly rigorous certification process – and I agree we need to find ways to stop those who are not using those processes and certification standards from bandying around the words natural and organic when it doesn’t mean anything – after all it only makes the consumers like you guys question the ENTIRE industry anyway so really those companies are achieving nothing except their five minutes of marketing fame only to be swept under the carpet when the next BIG thing comes along – the secret is to be a truth crusader after all isn’t that all anyone ever wants ? the truth?

By: fish

fish — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 06:19:12 +0000

Wow that is full of so much crap. I make a lot of my own products for the cost factor, the fact that fake “natural” is totally in right now, I like having control over what is going in my products (as much as I can), and the cost factor (again). I go for a lot of paraben free stuff and other mainstays of the “natural” movement. I will accept the label of “crunchy” but I hate that people think that synthetics are automatically bad for you or that just because something occurs in nature it is good for you. I loath the tagline “contains plant extracts” or “natural botanicals!” you know what is a plant extract? Heroin. But I don’t go around putting it in my face cream.

I guess more than the crunchy types spending a lot of money on niche “natural” products or people like me who like to make their own stuff is the average person who shops at drug stores and gets sucked into labeling tricks, like the ones mentioned above. These people shouldn’t think they are getting more for their extra money even though it is the exact same formula with cucumber or green tea thrown in as an after thought right before the dyes and fragrance.

So I can see why people would want the label “natural” standardized just like “certified organic” but I think those guidelines aren’t right. No animal products? Burt’s Bees is full of beeswax which is made by bees and since a natural product can’t have synthetics I guess they won’t be switching to an “un”natural alternative.

PS:
The Natural is one of the worse books I’ve ever read and they made it into an even worse movie.

By: Neihya

Neihya — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:33:12 +0000

thebeautybrains:
I would just like to point out that ethanol is also known as alcohol, grain alcohol and spirits of wine (present in beer, wine, vodka and all other alcoholic beverages). It is the least harmful/poisonous of alcohols. It is a “harsh ingrediant” that most people (certainly not all) choose to consume on a regular basis and in a MUCH higher concentration than one would find in Burt’s Bees products. I am sure that you will not find them selling a 5.5 % ethanol (alcohol !) hand lotion even though we see 70% Rum being sold. Based upon this, I beleive that ethanol is a safe ingredient to use in cosmetics as it is used in a controlled environment.

By: Sally

Sally — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:56:35 +0000

Im shocked that no one has mentioned The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics safecosmetics.org or the EWG’s Cosmetic Database cosmeticdatabase.com which takes the toxicity rating for thousands of cosmetic chemicals and then ranks over 25,000 commonly available cosmetic products… synthetic or not – we should be more concerned with the fact that technology and chemical advancements go unmonitored by the FDA. Fabulous that no companies does animal testing anymore… why do they need to when the FDA allows human testing!

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