Are Your Skin Care Products Slowly Poisoning You?
Warning, I’m going to try to scare you into reading the labels on all your skin care products and lotions. I want you to read the ingredients before you get reeled in by their promises.
Only 11% of 10,500 ingredients in skincare products has been screened for safety.
I Found No Truth in the Advertising of 3 Skincare Lines
As someone who has suffered anaphylactic shock attacks from toxic personal hygiene products, I’m acutely aware of how dangerous what we put on our bodies can be. And because one out of three women will get cancer in her lifetime, I want you to be aware of some major advertising bait and switch going on right now.
What’s being peddled as pure many times turns out to be full of crap (carcinogenics). Just read the Dirty Dozen List of Ingredients to Avoid and you’ll see what I’m talking about.
I went to CVS today armed with my reading glasses and magnifying glass to learn if Simple, SebaMed, and Puristics skincare lines were all that and a bag of chips or if marketers were doing a brilliant job putting lipstick on a pig.
After learning the ingredients in Simple, SebaMeda, and Puristics skincare lines, which are all available affordably at local drug stores such as Walgreen’s, DVS, and RiteAid, I determined they are far from all natural and not a product I’d choose to buy or put on my body.
Stick with me to the end and I’ll reveal the new skincare line I did purchase today because I’ve put its ingredients under the microscope for months and found no toxins or chemicals. Plus I tested samples and had no reactions.
SebaMed, Simple, and Puristics — Not So Pure Afterall
SebaMed claimed to be non-irritating, dermatologist recommended. In the ingredients below you’ll see several no-nos, including Sodium Lauroyl Sarcosinate – a foaming agent often used in garage floor cleaners
Disodium Lauryl Sulfosuccinate, Triticum vulgare starch, Palmitic Acid, Stearic Acid, Glyceryl Stearate, Cetearyl Alcohol, Talc, Sodium Lactate, Cera alba, Aqua, Lecithin, Sodium Lauroyl Sarcosinate, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Panthenol, Inulin, Sodium Cocoyl Glutamate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Glycine, Magnesium Aspartate, Alanine, Lysine, Leucine, Benzophenone-4, Parfum, CI 47005, CI 61570, CI 77891.
Puristics claimed all its ingredients in their skin rejuvenating lotion were really good for you. Here’s the list of ingredients in Puristics Totally Ageless Advanced Skin Rejuvenating Lotion. FYI, Puristics marketers, did you forget to include in your ad copy that Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate is on the Dirty 12 list of toxic ingredients.
Purified Water, Squalene, Octyl Palmitate, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Saccharomyces/Hexapeptide, Glycerin, Glyceryl Stearate, Sucrose, Stearate, Palm Butter, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Safflower Seed Oil, Sucrose Disterate, Tapioca Starch, Citric Acid, Hydrogenated Lecithin, Ethylhexylglycerin, Sunflower Seed Wax, Xanthan Gum, Tocopheryl Acetate, Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate, Panthenol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Polylysine
Simple claimed to contain only 4 significant ingredients. Turns out Simple’s cleanser contains parabens and Polysorbate 60 (modern organ toxicity)
Aqua, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil, Glycerin, Isopropyl Palmitate, Polysorbate 60, Sorbitan Stearate, Panthenol, Allantoin, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Bisabolol, Cetearyl Alcohol, Methylparaben, Sodium Hydroxide, 2-Bromo-2-Nitropropane-1,3-Diol, BHT, EDTA
The only skincare line I trust to buy since my two anaphylactic attacks is L’Bri, which is only available through distributors such Pam Thibodeau who I met teaching a community course called What’s in Your Bottle.
Pam suffered from eczema for years before finding L’Bri. Check out these facts Pam shared:
- 60% of what we put on our bodies ends up in our bloodstream
- Hairdressers and stylists have the youngest death rate of any occupation group
- 45% of the personal care products we use are harmful to the reproductive system
- 80% of personal care products have been linked to immune toxicity
ABC Airs Segment on Chemical-Ridden Cosmetics.
Diane Sawyer just aired a report on ABC that says women come in contact with 120 chemicals when they rise and shine each morning. What’s in our showers, shampoos, soaps, lotions, and cosmetics are potential cancer culprits to take a closer look at.
Which 120 unregulated products are slipping into your morning routine every day? Tell me what you’re using and I’ll tell you what’s in and the health risks.
Post a comment if you want to know what was in the personal hygiene product that caused this allergic reaction 4/19
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Very neat post and some good facts highlighted. I’m glad you found the Dirty dozen post useful. Thank you for the link back
I’ll be doing a workshop the 19th at my church on this and mentioning your site. Also later this summer at a University and mentioning your site. THanks.
A great website for checking consumer products especially skincare Skin Deep® Cosmetics Database Environmental Working Group
http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/
Thank you for recommending the Skin Deep Cosmetic database. It’s a great source I used weekly and just made a donation to because they provide this great service. Thanks!
I would like to know more about your anaphylatic shock experience. I recently experienced an episode with a skin care line after 2 wks of use. The ER doctor is not calling it an anaphylatic shock since there was no visible swelling/hives, no low blood pressure more likely a panic attack.
I couldnt believe it could be a skin care line that’s very expensive and popular would give me that reaction. So I tested it out a 2nd and 3rd time with just a small patch test. Sure enough my heart raced and my throat started to swell. And I ended up in ER. Same response from doctor. I been searching the net high and low for ans.
Ive gotten the same reaction to true henna for hair color from a patch test.
Im now scared to death to try anything!!
How scary for you Lee. I’ve learned it doesn’t matter how expensive or respected the brand or even if the product is all natural and vegan (as in the massage cream that caused my attack last month). It matters the toxins, preservatives, sunscreen substances sometimes set people off like titandium dioxide and MICA.
I’ve had bad environmental allergies since I was little that were seasonal. Now it’s year round and moving into other areas which my allergist says can still tie back to food. Have you either went to an allergist or a NAIT holistic treatment for allergy elimination. I’m exploring it all as I don’t want to live like the girl in a plastic bubble or tied to an epi-pen.
If you send me your email address to bclevenger@me.com, I’ll send you 8 pages of my workshop I’m putting together to give online or throw You Tube. Also have you read Kim Barnouin’s Skinny Bitch: Home, Beauty and Style book — Cutting the Crap out of Your Life. I’m reading it tonight and it has great research on toxins and allergies.
What sebamed products did you look into? You named the brands but not the product… such as face wash or moisturizer.
Thanks for asking Jessica. I looked at the starter kit and the face/body wash and read the ingredients in CVS with a magnifying glass and then researched the ingredients in the EWG.com skin care database. Just glancing at the ingredients again below, I see 4 parabans, dye, fragrance and the preservative — phenoxyenthal that caused me to have two severe allergic reactions last year.
Water (Aqua), sodium laureth sulfate, sodium c14-16 olefin sulfonate, disodium laureth sulfosuccinate, sodium chloride, laureth-2, panthenol, glycol distearate, fragrance (parfum), saccharide isomerate, allantoin, niacinamide, pyridoxine HCl, glycine, magnesium aspartate, alanine, lysine, leucine, biotin, glycerin, sodium lauroyl glutamate, sodium citrate, cocamidopropyl betaine, sorbitan laurate, PEG-120 methyl glucose dioleate, butylparaben, ethylparaben, isobutylparaben, methylparaben, propylparaben, phenoxyethanol, potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate, Yellow 10 (CI 47005), Blue 1 (CI 42090)