http://thebeautybrains.com/2008/09/27/naturally-nasty-the-top-10-natural-ingredients-you-need-to-avoid/ 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. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:09:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://thebeautybrains.com/2008/09/27/naturally-nasty-the-top-10-natural-ingredients-you-need-to-avoid/comment-page-1/#comment-35269 Skeptic Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:38:57 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/?p=3205#comment-35269 I agree with a previous poster. You list obvious poisons, but you rarely point out where these toxins are used. Kind of pointless, really. I agree with a previous poster. You list obvious poisons, but you rarely point out where these toxins are used. Kind of pointless, really.

]]> http://thebeautybrains.com/2008/09/27/naturally-nasty-the-top-10-natural-ingredients-you-need-to-avoid/comment-page-1/#comment-35198 Scientists Speak About Cosmetic Animal Testing | Beauty Secrets Blog Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:48:12 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/?p=3205#comment-35198 [...] Natural ingredients to avoid [...] [...] Natural ingredients to avoid [...]

]]> http://thebeautybrains.com/2008/09/27/naturally-nasty-the-top-10-natural-ingredients-you-need-to-avoid/comment-page-1/#comment-35119 Best of the Beauty Brains 2008 | The Beauty Brains Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:40:53 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/?p=3205#comment-35119 [...] give better UV protection than cheap ones? 7. The 10 strangest ingredients in cosmetics 8. The top 10 natural ingredients you need to avoid 9. Spa bath with fish is a wash 10. The top 10 beauty science [...] [...] give better UV protection than cheap ones? 7. The 10 strangest ingredients in cosmetics 8. The top 10 natural ingredients you need to avoid 9. Spa bath with fish is a wash 10. The top 10 beauty science [...]

]]> http://thebeautybrains.com/2008/09/27/naturally-nasty-the-top-10-natural-ingredients-you-need-to-avoid/comment-page-1/#comment-34733 Best of the Beauty Brains 2008 | Beauty Secrets Blog Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:41:35 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/?p=3205#comment-34733 [...] give better UV protection than cheap ones? 7. The 10 strangest ingredients in cosmetics 8. The top 10 natural ingredients you need to avoid 9. Spa bath with fish is a wash 10. The top 10 beauty science [...] [...] give better UV protection than cheap ones? 7. The 10 strangest ingredients in cosmetics 8. The top 10 natural ingredients you need to avoid 9. Spa bath with fish is a wash 10. The top 10 beauty science [...]

]]> http://thebeautybrains.com/2008/09/27/naturally-nasty-the-top-10-natural-ingredients-you-need-to-avoid/comment-page-1/#comment-31653 la chica aposomatica Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:18:11 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/?p=3205#comment-31653 As my toxicology prof used to say - Everything is toxic. Dosage is everything. Remember, you can die from drinking too much water regardless of whether it is Fiji or came from a tap after being piped for 500 miles in the Califrnia aqueduct. Of course toxins exist in nature but those are also the devils we "mostly" know. And even then arsenic was used as a beauty product for the face in several cultures for centuries. The problem with many synthetics is the fact that they haven't been around long enough for us to see long-term harm AND they are usually produced and distributed in quantities that are not remotely "natural." Yes, poison dart frogs are incredibly poisonous - but only when in the rainforest - bring them into captivity on a diet of non-rainforest insects and you just have a pretty frog. Aflatoxin - highly toxic and cancer-causing if you are ingesting it, but probably not if you are rubbing it in your hair to remove chewing gum. It also happens to be a very tightly regulated toxin - EPA has very strict guidelines on how much aflatoxin on peanuts ends up in Skippy. Afraid of red tide algae? Pass on the seafood. It has NOTHING to do with the kelp extracts in your shampoo, toothpaste, whatever. Educate yourself - there's no substitute for that. Steer clear of castor beans (and international assassins) if you don't want ricin. Stay away from eating wild mushrooms gathered by foreigners and amateurs if you don't want alpha-amanitin (which is unlikely to be in any beauty products anyway!) And lastly botulinum toxin causes neurons to not be able to conduct signals - hence paralysis. I would never get this injected in my face but then again some people would never get their nose pierced. To each her own. As my toxicology prof used to say – Everything is toxic. Dosage is everything. Remember, you can die from drinking too much water regardless of whether it is Fiji or came from a tap after being piped for 500 miles in the Califrnia aqueduct. Of course toxins exist in nature but those are also the devils we “mostly” know. And even then arsenic was used as a beauty product for the face in several cultures for centuries. The problem with many synthetics is the fact that they haven’t been around long enough for us to see long-term harm AND they are usually produced and distributed in quantities that are not remotely “natural.” Yes, poison dart frogs are incredibly poisonous – but only when in the rainforest – bring them into captivity on a diet of non-rainforest insects and you just have a pretty frog. Aflatoxin – highly toxic and cancer-causing if you are ingesting it, but probably not if you are rubbing it in your hair to remove chewing gum. It also happens to be a very tightly regulated toxin – EPA has very strict guidelines on how much aflatoxin on peanuts ends up in Skippy. Afraid of red tide algae? Pass on the seafood. It has NOTHING to do with the kelp extracts in your shampoo, toothpaste, whatever. Educate yourself – there’s no substitute for that. Steer clear of castor beans (and international assassins) if you don’t want ricin. Stay away from eating wild mushrooms gathered by foreigners and amateurs if you don’t want alpha-amanitin (which is unlikely to be in any beauty products anyway!) And lastly botulinum toxin causes neurons to not be able to conduct signals – hence paralysis. I would never get this injected in my face but then again some people would never get their nose pierced. To each her own.

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