For years, I did not care what I used. If a product was recommended to me by a friend or my aesthetician I would just go and buy it and not question what was in it!
We have become much more conscientious at reading food labels and understanding what fats we should and should not eat, what is considered a healthy carb and so forth but I feel we still need a lot of work in reading labels on products that we put on our bodies.
Did you know what women on an average use 12 products a day which translates into 168 chemicals on their body!! Men use on an average 8 products which is about 80 chemicals!
It is a staggering number! It is also a lot of toxins we are putting on our bodies.
Our skin is our largest organ, anything we put on our skin is absorbed quickly into bloodstream, so I want to be sure that what I am using is safe, clean , cruelty free, and vegan.
The skincare industry is an unregulated industry, did you know that:
the US bans only 11 chemicals from their skincare
Canada bans around 300
EU ban 1400!!
With out much information to help us what then should we look for when trying to choose safer, cleaner personal care products? Here are some tips for you:
vegan certified
cruelty free
free of artificial preservatives, colours, fragrances
free of paragons, phthalates ,mineral oil (just to name a few of the toxins.)
free of PEG (polyethylene glycols)
My passion with Arbonne products are because they go above and beyond, voluntarily banning 2000 ingredients from their products!! It is important for me to know that what I am using for myself and my family is toxin free.
They subject their products to rigorous testing for safety and efficacy.
To me, understanding what I put ON my body has become just as important as what I put IN my body. It is this combination of the two that has made me feel and look so much better