04-16-2007, 02:59 AM
Oh no Greg, don't get me started on this. ARGH... too late...
A couple weeks ago I asked my wife why she puts stuff on her face at night, before she goes to bed, right after she washes her face. It didn't make sense to me to be putting more gunk on your face after you just washed it.
She's had medical training and knows you can't create anything but short-term gains from treating skin from the outside. She said it was some moisturizer that she got at Whole Foods, says 100% organic, 100% non-toxic...
So she does some research on it and finds out those claims aren't true. She started researching all her other "stuff" and found that she didn't have a thing that didn't contain chemicals that are linked to things like, oh, say, CANCER.
Call me a fool, but I had no clue that there are absolutely NO regulations on cosmetics (shampoo, deodorant ...) NONE. Her contact lens solution has a large percentage of a certain chemical which leads to blindness. They can pretty much put whatever they want in these things.
This is why they do animal testing... because they are using stuff they know is harmful, they just gotta make sure the short-term reactions aren't noticeable. Long-term they don't care about it because, well, they don't have to.
Start looking up the ingredients in the rest of your supplies. Not just the ones on the container, but there are lists of ingredients that aren't on there (they don't have to put all of them on there.) There's some site... I forget what it's called... my wife found it the other day. Has a huge breakdown of what's in what and what it does to you. There are a few companies which supply things like deodorant that aren't poisons.
Apparently a few days after my wife found it, it was mentioned on Opera.
A couple weeks ago I asked my wife why she puts stuff on her face at night, before she goes to bed, right after she washes her face. It didn't make sense to me to be putting more gunk on your face after you just washed it.
She's had medical training and knows you can't create anything but short-term gains from treating skin from the outside. She said it was some moisturizer that she got at Whole Foods, says 100% organic, 100% non-toxic...
So she does some research on it and finds out those claims aren't true. She started researching all her other "stuff" and found that she didn't have a thing that didn't contain chemicals that are linked to things like, oh, say, CANCER.
Call me a fool, but I had no clue that there are absolutely NO regulations on cosmetics (shampoo, deodorant ...) NONE. Her contact lens solution has a large percentage of a certain chemical which leads to blindness. They can pretty much put whatever they want in these things.
This is why they do animal testing... because they are using stuff they know is harmful, they just gotta make sure the short-term reactions aren't noticeable. Long-term they don't care about it because, well, they don't have to.
Start looking up the ingredients in the rest of your supplies. Not just the ones on the container, but there are lists of ingredients that aren't on there (they don't have to put all of them on there.) There's some site... I forget what it's called... my wife found it the other day. Has a huge breakdown of what's in what and what it does to you. There are a few companies which supply things like deodorant that aren't poisons.
Apparently a few days after my wife found it, it was mentioned on Opera.