I want to restock with no-nasties toiletries

LadyGooGoo_2

Thanks for the info Jacks. Thanks to your links and Google I'm learning a lot. I liked your reasoning about why you're doing this. There is nothing silly about wanting to know what the ingredients we slather all over our skin do to us, animals and the environment.

Clairibel & Tom's Mum I looked at Naked too, but it has PEGs in. So happy to hear about your scalp result though Clairibel .

Jacks_xxx

Just posting another link: (it's the chemicals you won't find in products from mypure - and why.)

http://www.mypure.co.uk/promise.php

The Chemical Checklist: (again from mypure. The chemicals you may want to avoid - and why)

http://www.mypure.co.uk/checklist.php

beautyscientist

Jacks_xxx wrote: »

Just posting another link: (it's the chemicals you won't find in products from mypure - and why.)

http://www.mypure.co.uk/promise.php

The Chemical Checklist: (again from mypure. The chemicals you may want to avoid - and why)

http://www.mypure.co.uk/checklist.php

I had a look at that checklist and it was hard to find a single correct fact on it. I am very familiar on a daily basis with many of the supposedly highly dangerous chemicals on that list, and several of them I would happily swim 20 lengths in a swimming pool full of them.

If you like natural products by all means buy them. If you like what they do for you, by all means praise them and spread the word to others if you are that way inclined.

But that list is transparently put together by MyPure, a commercial company, to scare people into buying their products. It isn't even very well written.

Jacks_xxx

beautyscientist wrote: »

I had a look at that checklist and it was hard to find a single correct fact on it. I am very familiar on a daily basis with many of the supposedly highly dangerous chemicals on that list, and several of them I would happily swim 20 lengths in a swimming pool full of them.

If you like natural products by all means buy them. If you like what they do for you, by all means praise them and spread the word to others if you are that way inclined.

But that list is transparently put together by MyPure, a commercial company, to scare people into buying their products. It isn't even very well written.

Both you and mypure have vested interests, but their attitude comes across as "Do a bit of research and decide for yourself" whereas yours appears more like "Just take my word for it and don't be so silly".

But thanks for giving us your permission to buy, use, and speak about products with ingredients lists we understand and trust. :D

Mayflower10cat

Round about Christmas time I decided to get rid of all my beauty products that I didn't know for certain hadn't been tested on animals (and it was a LOT of stuff) and replace with cruelty free products that as far as possible were free of certain chemicals/ingredients I'd noted down as my personal undesirables. My list includes, SLS & SLeS, parabens, liquid paraffin/mineral oil, aluminium and to be honest, anything I had to google to find out what the h*ck it was.... So far I've liked skincare/bathtime/haircare products from naturallythinking.com (I buy what they call their 'cosmetic bases' and add essential oils) I've liked suncare from Lavera, some nice toothpaste from The Green People & pretty much all my make-up now is from M&S (but I'm testing bits and bobs from other ethical ranges alongside). I buy Pit-Rok & Biosen deodorants. I choose not to buy from Boots. All my household cleaning products come from The Co-Op's own range, M&S, Astonish or Green Force (great range BTW). And yes, my skin has been better and my hair is much shinier. And I feel, well, happier inside that I've tried to do the best I can, conscientiously & ecologically.

beautyscientist

Mayflower10cat wrote: »

Round about Christmas time I decided to get rid of all my beauty products that I didn't know for certain hadn't been tested on animals (and it was a LOT of stuff) and replace with cruelty free products that as far as possible

Did you know that it is now illegal to test cosmetics on animals? If not I am sure you'll agree it is good news.

http://!!!!!!!.com/32qwzen

Jacks_xxx

beautyscientist wrote: »

Did you know that it is now illegal to test cosmetics on animals? If not I am sure you'll agree it is good news.

http://!!!!!!!.com/32qwzen

I fear you've been misled again beautyscientist.

Animal testing in cosmetics is still very much an issue.

There are several exceptions to the EU "Ban".

It still allows for the import and sale of some animal tested ingredients until 11 March 2013.

It still allows companies to have animal tested ingredients in their supply chain.

At the moment the ban does not apply to animal testing done outside of the EU so it's inevitable that most big name cosmetic products still contain animal tested ingredients.

And there's whole lot of world outside the EU, not covered by this so called ban.

So I'm not hanging the celebratory bunting out yet. :D

beautyscientist

Jacks_xxx wrote: »

I fear you've been misled again beautyscientist.

Animal testing in cosmetics is still very much an issue.

There are several exceptions to the EU "Ban".

It still allows for the import and sale of some animal tested ingredients until 11 March 2013.

It still allows companies to have animal tested ingredients in their supply chain.

At the moment the ban does not apply to animal testing done outside of the EU so it's inevitable that most big name cosmetic products still contain animal tested ingredients.

And there's whole lot of world outside the EU, not covered by this so called ban.

So I'm not hanging the celebratory bunting out yet. :D

You are hard to please aren't you.

Mayflower10cat

Jacks_xxx wrote: »

Animal testing in cosmetics is still very much an issue.

There are several exceptions to the EU "Ban".

It still allows for the import and sale of some animal tested ingredients until 11 March 2013.

It still allows companies to have animal tested ingredients in their supply chain.

At the moment the ban does not apply to animal testing done outside of the EU so it's inevitable that most big name cosmetic products still contain animal tested ingredients.
:D

Precisely. Succintly put.

And yes, I also 'am hard to please' and proud of it. :T

Jacks_xxx

beautyscientist wrote: »

You are hard to please aren't you.

No, I just know more about this than you do, evidently.

I like truth, honesty, facts and transparency. I prefer information presented as fact to be correct, and not just opinion or carefully phrased weasel words.

For example: When companies say "We don't do animal testing" they often mean "We get someone else to do it for us" so I always verify the information rather than just swallow what I'm told.

I would have thought you would have liked that beautyscientist. Isn't that what science is all about?