Hello all! With Halloween just around the corner, today I want
to talk a little bit about the "Scary Words" of bath and beauty care
products. There is so much information floating around out there - that
one can easily get confused. My goal is to attempt to clear some of it
up for you.
When you visit
our website
or reach for a bar of our soap, you might quickly see a bit of jargon
about "Paraben, Phthalate, Dye, Sulfates and Cruelty Free". But what in
the world does all that mean? In October we added "GMO Free" and in
November - we're adding "100% Gluten Free". OK, great!- more confusion.
Some
of these scary words have to do with food additives (and yes GMO's are
in those chocolaty Halloween treats), genetically altered manufacturing
practices and some with the chemical use in manufacturing bathing and
beauty products. Why does
Magic Moon
put both bathing and food jargon in the mix? Well- simply because we
use 100% organic ingredients, many of them from the culinary world.
Because we handcraft our products with plant derived oils most commonly
used in the culinary realm - we concern ourselves with all of these
issues. We also use herbs and botanicals in our formulations as well -
many you only heard about in your grandmother's garden or mother's
kitchen.
You have to remember - that in the
"All-Natural" philosophy - what you put ONTO your body is just as
crucial as what you put INTO it. Your skin literally absorbs a good
portion of what you bathe it with and apply to it everyday.
Commercially manufactured shower gels, bath bars (notice I did not say
'soap'), creams,lotions, makeup, sunscreens, scrubs, pollution,
free-radicals, lead, dirt, etc.- can be harmful. Soap and Bath Bars -
are two completely different things. Bath bars most often contain very
little that we could consider pure, natural or nature made. True SOAPS
on the other hand - can be all-natural bliss that feed and nourish your
skin with everything that it is hungry for without all the unnecessary
additives. We finally are starting to see some of these on the common
place grocery shelves and commercial manufacturers are finally getting
it - so they are ramping up their versions.
You've
heard me say many times - that your skin is the largest organ of your
body and if it's not healthy and happy - neither is the rest of you. We
hear of so many being diagnosed with Cancer every single day. People
that we consider health conscious, nutritious eaters, organic gardeners,
etc- that are very conscious of what they put in their mouths. But-
are they just as conscious of what they bathe with? Is there so much
junk in our environment and in the foods we put into our bodies -
causing us more harm than good? What about what we put ONTO our
bodies? How much of that is causing us tremendous harm?
This
is not a topic that Bath and Body manufacturers want you to seriously
pay attention to or ask questions about - I assure you. They would
rather entice you with pretty words about their products containing
Vitamin E, Aloe, Green Tea and so forth - and not address the real
issues of healthy skin care. Even our children are not safe because of
all the chemicals that are present in their "gentle baby and children's
formulas".
But what does 'Healthy Skin Care' even
mean? Well - quite honestly - the only companies out there that you are
even going to hear that from - are the ones that are serious about
being a green or health conscious company. To be in this once taboo
category, stepping out of the common 'box' -would have meant exposing
the serious issues that many companies attempt to skirt around
religiously. Only since the rising interest of "all-natural" and
"certified organic" - these now common knowledge words were at one time,
like a foreign language.
OK- getting off my soapbox
now. In this series - I hope to introduce you to all those SCARY words
of bath and beauty products - why they matter and why you need to rid
yourself of them.
Stay tuned...more to come very shortly - same Bath Time, same Bath Channel. (couldn't resist - Loved Batman as a kid!)
Happy soaping - Dana!
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