Comments on: Can You Spot A Natural Product By Reading The Ingredients?

By: Robin @ toxicbeautyblog.com

Robin @ toxicbeautyblog.com — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:52:23 +0000

Yes, natural doesn’t always mean good. Asbestos is natural…so is petroleum (oil derived.) And there is a big difference between natural and organic. Natural is just a buzz word, completely unregulated, that companies use to sell their products to unsuspecting consumers. There are guidelines for a product to be termed “organic.” I recently blogged about this very topic and the topic can be found in the archives of my blog. Thanks.

By: Janis

Janis — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:56:13 +0000

I think the best thing to assume is just that, if you buy it in a store and it’s in a little palstic or glass bottle with a pump and a colorful logo … it ain’t organic. Period. It’s like looking for organic microwaveable brownies. No such thing.

If you REALLY want organic, you need to avoid prepackaged ANYTHING. Use coconut oil for a hair conditioner. Use water-only or the vinegar/baking soda/whatever scrub for your hair. Use oil cleaning with olive oil and a strigil for your skin. Period. If you buy ANYTHING mass-produced, it’s not organic by any stretch of the imagination. The minute you squeeze something pearly-lavendar out of a plastic tub that smells like Belgian wildflowers, you’ve left organic and natural far behind.

No matter what the natural-herbal-organic types who still want blue eyelids and pink hair say.

By: anactoria

anactoria — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:23:34 +0000

I don’t know what that tape is called but it doesn’t adhere by stickiness; it’s used to wrap wires and is sort of like latex tape. Really, it doesn’t hurt, try it! Though I certainly wouldn’t recommend wrapping knives on animals. Weaponised gerbils are a danger to all!

On topic: Not everyone carries an ingredients database when we shop so it would be nice to know at a glance what we’re looking at when we read ingredients lists.

I wish a line would come out catering to science geeks and cutting through the woowoo hyperbole. ‘Liquid emulsion-like substance for skin softening sensation scented with rose emulating esters’. I’d buy that.

By: Janis

Janis — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:09:32 +0000

I’d say the initial poster pretty much lowered that bar with the dumbass comment.

By: Dennery

Dennery — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:36:48 +0000

By the way, is it necessary to be so, uh . . . well, brusque when stating your views? Ouch.

Glad I’m not partaking & posting on the subject at hand. For the record, I don’t favor one over the other when it comes to natural or chemical – just the animal testing issue. I know, I know: “OT and wrong thread!” But when I saw that photo in my Email, something drove me to see what the . . . and it brought me here.

Poor ‘lil thing. Removing that duct tape won’t hurt a bit, right people?