Read the labels and you will never wear make up again:
For example:
| Mineral oil is a waste product from refining gasoline. You’ll find it in thousands of products in the beauty aisle. |
| Toxic formaldehyde is used in embalming. It’s also used in many so-called beauty products. |
| BHA – a common ingredient in facial moisturizers and sunscreens – increases your skin’s sensitivity to the burning rays of the sun. |
| Ammonia is highly corrosive to your skin, but cosmetics companies use it in facial moisturizers. Hand creams are mostly made from aqueous cream which has a base of petrolatum which is vaseline. Ever wondered why you feel you must put lipstick on all the time? The reason is that the main ingredient of most lipsticks and lip glosses is Petrolatum. Petrolatum is another name for Vaseline, petroleum jelly or mineral oil. Many years ago I worked as a laboratory technician in the pharmaceutical industry and part of my job was to test petrolatum. While I was testing it I decided to do some research and was horrified at where it came from, and what other uses it could be put to. One example is to extract perfume from rose petals (or any petals for that matter) and one smears petrolatum on glass plates and stick the petals onto the vaseline. You then put it in the sun so that the petrolatum heats up. The perfume oils and colour is extracted from the petals and is transferred to the petrolatum. You then take a solvent such as petroleum spirit, alcohol, acetone to wash the petrolatum into a beaker. After much washing of the petrolatum and drying off of the solvent you hopefully get an aromatic perfume which is then used to perfume soaps, etc. Petrolatum does the same thing to your skin, especially your lips. It extracts the oils from your skin and because your skin feels dry you add more cream or lipstick and the cycle starts again. Your lips dry and you add more. The solution to this is to use a beeswax or castor oil (ricinus) based lipstick. For hands and bodies, use glycerine or shea based hand creams. Personally I use udder cream which is made to sooth cows udders during the milking process. Udder cream or milking cream, however, does have lanolin in it. Other horrible additives to make up and cosmetics are the preservatives, such as E.D.T.A, (Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid,) which is usually used to dissolve limescale. Limescale is that stuff that coats the inside of your kettle, pipes, iron or wherever water evaporates. Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylenediaminetetraacetic_acid |
