chemicals in our children

mirry

Did anyone atach that programe last night, about chemicals in our children ?

My daughter wants a make up box for christmas and I told her No cos they are full of chemicals, shes really upset with me
I am trying to protect her but she doesnt understand.

Does anyone know where I can buy a make up box set thats chemical free ?

abbecer

PM you.

Rebecca x

nickj_2

have you tried the body shop

kenshaz

There is a company who sell completely pure cosmetics, they are called Absolutely Pure ,and their website is below,with a further helpful site www.naturalingredient.org
www.absolutelypure.com

COOLTRIKERCHICK

i watched that too:eek: ...its really freightening....

also the young girl.. that was eating mainly organic products... had the highest chemical result including banned chemicals.....that would tie in with the report in the gardening mag.. about organic produce in supermarkets having high levels of pesticides.....and banned pesticides......( inported organic produce )

also there must be chemical leakage from packaging...etc....

i really think there should be more programmes......etc... on this type of thing....and more companies should go under the spot light in general....

Ken-Dodds-Hairy-Knodule

nickj wrote:

have you tried the body shop

There is nothing natural about the body shop.

They had pledged to greenpeace to remove all toxic substances from their products by 2010 but that was before l'oreal purchased them - I doubt loreal will be removing toxic substances..

mirry

thats true, the body shop has terrible chemicals in products....
i couldnt find one natural product !

what annoys me is the false advertisements, the way they label things.....

natural for example, yes ok there are natural ingrediants in the products along side aload of chemicals !!!

I went in Boots the other day and read the simple range of shampoos and soaps......they contain parabens (they think we are simple).

why is it i cant go down the town and buy chemically free toiletries ???

earthmother

mirry wrote:

why is it i cant go down the town and buy chemically free toiletries ???

Eco-friendly toiletries available on the High Street are hard to find, but they are there if you know where to look

The Duchy range (Prince Charles) is available in Waitrose/Ocado, and is pretty much free of all the nasties.

For children, Halos N Horns in Tesco is good (and well priced).

Lush seems to get mentioned a lot, although I've not tried them myself.

And if you have a good Health Food/Organic shop, the Green People and Faith In Nature ranges are usually available through them

For biodegradeable sanitary wear (if you don't fancy the Mooncup), Nature do a range (again thorugh Waitrose/Ocado), or theres Natracare in health food shops.

And for babies, larger Boots are apparently starting to stock biodegradeable Moltex nappies (the best in terms of biodegradability, but previously only available on mail order or from health food shops) and Nature wipes, if you don't fancy going the washables route.


We (2 adults, 2 children and a baby) can get everything we need, from shops not mail order, within about 15 miles of us, which considering we have to travel that far for a major supermarket is pretty good (although it does often work out cheaper, and is definitely more environmentally friendly, to mail order in bulk).

thirtysomething_2

I have just found and started using the most wonderful products called Miessence

Their skin care range is certified organic to food standards so if you really want to eat it you can :-0. They also have shampoos/conditioners/make up etc. Would make an expensive but lovely Xmas Box.

Take a look at https://www.health-essentials.org

A wonderful product and as the programme the other night stated - at least 60% of the products you put on to your skin end up being absorbed so you want to make sure those products are not harmful - what can be better than 'food safe' organic products?

Hope this has helped.

Prudent

I missed this. Why did organic food have higher pesticides etc? My teen daughter is very health conscious and will only eat organic.

thirtysomething_2

The girl had higher levels of pesticides not because of the food she was eating but purely because pesticides are in the air around us. Unfortunately we will never be fully rid of them and this family were totally organic in their whole daily lives from clothes to food. They even owned the organic shop 'Green Fibres' in Totnes. I am sure they were very upset with this information but you just wonder what this girls results would have been like had they not been a totally organic family...