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Who Else Is Sick Of “Chemical Free” Products?
  • LeftBrainLeftBrain
    Here at the Beauty Brains, as well as other enlightened places across the beauty blog-0-sphere, there’s been a lot of discussion lately about the use of the term “chemical free” as it relates to cosmetics. There’s no such thing as “chemical free” As our science-savvy readers know there is no such thing as “chemical free.” [...] Read more: Read the full article →
  • rozy
    I am sick of it. I am sick of paraben free that is very dangerous and useless.
  • AmandaElisabethAmandaElisabeth
    As a science junky and a nutrition major, I agree!  I think this sort of thing really scares people and maybe even suckers people who don't know their facts into buying their products because they are "chemical free."

    This is why I think everyone should have to take at least one chem class in high school or college.  :)

    I also get peeved at the whole "organic" foods thing.  While I do understand the reasoning behind it....all food is organic, technically speaking.
  • Oakes
    Not only is in "organic" technically but the land space used and the pesticides needed for 'organic' stuff renders was more land use needs, and less yield than modern farming techniques. If I'm going to get my cornmeal in a scrub I'd like it to come from excess, the only way we get excess is through farming that works .

    Besides, we list so ma y things on our products that even adding what something is and does wouldnt help. It would just need a consumer or happiest to go through each ingredient to for efficacy and safety .i do t see this halpening. Chemical free, organica, the lot of the. Are not supported by the sciend and the methods used need to be overhauled.
  • design_a_thought
    While i am a lover of these "chem free" products i love them because (i must stress some of them! you have to carefully look at the ingredients list!) they are using the ingredients grown from our good earth not cheaply mass produced in a lab so some company can reep the profits. I found that through some careful research, many of my products contained harmful chemicals which could be substituted with a natural one. But there goes profit, the cheaper the product the more of us hard up people with loads of bills are going to buy them. Not all of us have the knowledge to know what goes into our beauty products but it would be great to hit all of these companies on the head, i have noticed that the companies who, in detail, place their ingredients list openly, for example my old A'kin lavender shampoo give their customers the knowledge.
    aqua (purified Australian water*) *BP 2007 standard
    citric acid (botanical source)
    cocamidopropyl hydroxysultaine (from coconut)
    disodium cocoamphodiacetate (from coconut)
    glycerin (botanical source)
    glyceryl laurate (botanical source)
    lauryl glucoside (from coconut, palm & glucose)
    sodium citrate (botanical source)
    sodium cocoyl glutamate (from coconut & sugar cane)
    sodium gluconate (from GMO free corn)
    sodium hydroxymethylglycinate
    sodium lauroyl sarcosinate (from palm)
    sodium lauryl sulfoacetate (from palm)
    sorbitol (from GMO free maize)
    pelargonium graveolens (geranium) flower oil
    rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary) leaf oil
    elettaria cardamomum seed oil
    lavandula angustifolia (lavender) oil (certified organic)
    citrus aurantium amara (bitter orange) leaf oil (petitgrain)
    pogostemon cablin oil
    This type of ingredients list makes me feel happy because i know exactly whats in the bottle, some of these chemical names i cannot even begin to try to pronounce.
    In my personal opinion i believe that products should state what percentage of its ingredients are botanically sourced. This puts the power to the consumer. Botanically sourced! thats it :)
  • rozy
    hi design a thought give some of the articles on this site a chance natural does not always equal safe and some synthetics save peoples lives. its not so black and white and really just because the ingredients is stuff you can pronounce it would differ radically from people and what education they have so that cant really be a rule of thumb. natural does not mean better. for example lavender oil is said by treehuggers to be all healing but it breaks me out in a horrid rash.
  • LeftBrainLeftBrain
    There is nothing natural about Cocamidopropyl Hydroxysultaine. The only way you can produce it is to create it in a lab!

    The same is true of 
    glyceryl laurate 
    lauryl glucoside 
    sodium citrate 
    sodium cocoyl glutamate 
    sodium gluconate 
    sodium hydroxymethylglycinate 
    sodium lauroyl sarcosinate 
    sodium lauryl sulfoacetate 

     You are falling for what we call in the business "greenwashing". Every one of these chemicals is synthetically produced in a lab. The starting materials are irrelevant. In fact, these are the same starting materials that the Big Corporations use, they just don't put the parenthetical information on the label. Which, incidentally, in the United States is illegal.
  • rozy
    dang this sunscreen which otherwise looks like a good product decided to market itself as "chemical free"
    http://www.bluelizard.net/
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