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I have to say I’m in the pro lavender field but that comes from years of using it directly on skin. Only high quality pure lavender essential oil. I worked for 20 years as a makeup artist/ special effects prosthetic artist as well as teaching those subjects along with beauty therapy, and aromatherapy. Very often actors would have reactions to makeup or prosthetics, particularly prosthetics due to the chemicals they contained and to counteract this and reduce redness quickly myself and colleagues would apply neat lavender EO, it’s great for calming redness and taking the sting out of skin reactions.
I use it on my own skin too as well as on my children for the past 23 years. Of course there will be people who have allergies to lavender as with anything so checking is imperativeI’ve disagreed with Her (Paula) ((when don’t I disagree!?)) on a few things, but for the most part she seems to know quite a wealth of decent products, and a jumping point for googling information. I gotta read into the lethal lavender too though because I use it everywhere, with lavender scented everything! Although I have never once heard lavender to be detrimental to one’s health, if it is, I am in some deep trouble. It’s like … My scent! (As well as rose, amber, hyacinth, and gardenia.) (I like smelling like old ladies apparently.) I’ll try to post something I find too, if Randy doesn’t get to it first.
Yo, I think I figured what got Paula’s Ahem twisted…. But first I’m going to tell you the stuff you already knew.
So you know know to rub ess oils directly, and to dilute them, if not, there is a reason. And ANYTHING can be an antigen in a form of an allergen, lavender is no exception, especially since it has anti-bac properties, It could irritate broken skin, and leave it red, tender and irritated. Wearing too strong of perfume, or having too strong of an aroma therapy diffuser can give you headaches. Ingesting it may bind you, up and cause you to gain weight. (probably cause you’re bound up!) And btws, I didn’t bother fact checking WebMD, half of an opinion they had on the matter, because Seal team 6 should take them out for terrorism.
With that said, I think, and I can’t be sure, it’s gynocemastia. It’s where little boys get TIG OL BITTIES prepuberty. I feel as though if it affects prepubescent, it’s likely to have an effect on the breast trajectory of women but what do I know. I can barely spell that word, and I doubt I have it right so, you bet I have one heck of a source http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17267908e.
Side note, on this page they said ingesting it may be poisonous as well. I can’t fathom how. But I guess too much of anything…? If anyone can comment on this?
@ Randy – Did you ever get a definitive answer to the original question, “How bad is lavender, really?” You were waiting to hear back from perfumer contacts and still looking for evidence from the last posts you had.
They never did respond to my request for information and I haven’t had a chance to dig into it any further.Hey gang, long time no talk. I recently discovered a youtuber called Mrs. Ginger’s beauty channel and I must say I love her perspective. She’s very well versed in science and VERY into cosmetics, but doesn’t seem to have any reason for bias for or against fragrances. In fact her recent “fragrance in cosmetics” video was very balanced and fair in my opinion. Spoiler alert, she’s more on the Paula side. Will link to her because I think a lot of people who enjoy the Brains would also enjoy her very scientifically educated perspective.
I gotta ask, I know people hate ewg, and other lists of the sort, but do people on here hate Paula? If so why? I see her as being sorta neutral as far as cosmetic politics… Which I didn’t realize was a thing until I typed it.
Are we like the far right, conservatives?
I kind of thought she was all right too, I mean, I didn’t always agree with every last thing, but also pretty awesome, and she seems to be pretty passionate about what she does. I find most people are when it comes to cos/sci. It’s good to hear she’s well received here. I fought so hard making a Star Wars/ Dark side reference,
I just checked out a few of Ginger’s videos. Very well done overall. A nicely balanced discussion on the ones that I saw. But holy crap is her room PINK!
I dont hate Paula or anyone, but she is definitely biased. A couple of years ago Paula and Futurederm had a “falling out” (if you can call it that) where Paula critized Futurederm for saying that alcohol in skin care is safe. Futurederm addressed her critic and revealed that most of the research Paula was referencing had nothing to do with topically applied alcohol. One of the studies wasn’t even about alcohol at all but sulfates. After this I’ve never really trusted Paula the way I used to. The research she references on her site doesn’t contain links and now I guess we know why.
I’m not saying Paula is intentionally spreading misinformation, but please don’t use her as your only source.
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