Handmade homegrown, What about your personal care products?

[Cindy Tollen]

Not only should we be concerned with the food we put into our bodies, but what about your personal care products? Here is a great link about parabens. Parabens are present in so many of our personal care products and is a very contorversial topic. Take a look... I would love to hear some feedback on this:

http://www.naturalskincaresecrets.com/parabens-and-cancer.html

[Rachel Butler]

Cindy- awesome. thank you for sharing. I'm gonna check it out. Education is the first step in making the world a better place. :) From what I understand, they would be listed in the ingredients as methylparaben, propylparaben, and butylparaben.

I did find the FDA ruling updating in 2007, and while the FDA for now at least that there is not a huge concern, they did not negate the fact that parabens, can in effect, mimic estrogen at a lower level. Wow- that is all we need putting more stuff into our bodies that have an estrogenic effect!

Thanks again, for sharing. Very eye opening. I will most definitely pay attention to not only what goes in me, but ON me as well! Glad to have you as a part of the FOOGS.org community!

[Cindy Tollen]

Rachel Butler said:

Cindy- awesome. thank you for sharing. I'm gonna check it out. Education is the first step in making the world a better place. :) From what I understand, they would be listed in the ingredients as methylparaben, propylparaben, and butylparaben.

I did find the FDA ruling updating in 2007, and while the FDA for now at least that there is not a huge concern, they did not negate the fact that parabens, can in effect, mimic estrogen at a lower level. Wow- that is all we need putting more stuff into our bodies that have an estrogenic effect!

Thanks again, for sharing. Very eye opening. I will most definitely pay attention to not only what goes in me, but ON me as well! Glad to have you as a part of the FOOGS.org community!

[Cindy Tollen]

Yes Rachel it is VERY interesting! When looking at your ingredients; anything with parabens will be at the last of the ingredient list. This is just the tip of the ice berg on ingredients in skin care I will be adding more soon. Hopefully we can add a topic for this as I accidentally put it under container gardening. :)

[Sharabella Fini]

Hi Cindy, just like you; I'm always concerned about the chemicals we put on our skin; have been conscious about this for some time now. Since skin is like a sponge and not a barrier, everything is absorbed, of course. So, what I started to do was to simplify and use basic skin care with no chemicals and organic if possible.

I also try to make my own with olive oil, coconut oil, honey, yogurt, bananas, oats, lavender, rosemary and so forth. Yes, it takes some time and effort, but definitely worth it. We don't need expensive potions and lotions with chemicals to have a beautiful skin.

Skin ages of course, but with natural products it will age much more gracefully and at a slower rate. We need to go natural and green in all areas of our lives.

[Cindy Tollen]

Hi Sharabella -

Sounds like you have it going on! Good for you... I only use all natural products on my skin. Like you I make all of them myself including my own mineral make up. As soon as I can get with Ty on this, I plan on including some of my recipes for you all - perphaps on the blog section. In addition to what you are doing you might want to try raw african shea butter. The benefits are absolutely amazing. You are welcome to read some of the benefits on my website: http://www.sudznbubbles.com/store/WsDefault.asp?Cat=SheaButter Let me know what you think!

[Sharabella Fini]

That is wonderful, and thank you Cindy, I will definitely check it out.

Cindy Tollen said:

Hi Sharabella -

Sounds like you have it going on! Good for you... I only use all natural products on my skin. Like you I make all of them myself including my own mineral make up. As soon as I can get with Ty on this, I plan on including some of my recipes for you all - perphaps on the blog section. In addition to what you are doing you might want to try raw african shea butter. The benefits are absolutely amazing. You are welcome to read some of the benefits on my website: http://www.sudznbubbles.com/store/WsDefault.asp?Cat=SheaButter Let me know what you think!

[Rachel Butler]

I think we need to have a soap making party, Sharabella! :) Love you bunches!

[Rachel Butler]

hi Cindy- I just created a new category in our forums for Health and Beauty and moved this discussion! Yay!

Cindy Tollen said:

Yes Rachel it is VERY interesting! When looking at your ingredients; anything with parabens will be at the last of the ingredient list. This is just the tip of the ice berg on ingredients in skin care I will be adding more soon. Hopefully we can add a topic for this as I accidentally put it under container gardening. :)

[Cindy Tollen]

Thanks so much for adding category! Soapmaking party? I love it!! Thats what I do all day long and thats a whole other discussion. :)

[Sharabella Fini]

That would be fun; let's do it. Love.

Rachel Butler said:

I think we need to have a soap making party, Sharabella! :) Love you bunches!