Toxin-free Beauty
Team, circle up and take a knee. The ingredients in your products MATTER. Not only do toxins slow down your awesomeness but if you are spending money on a new treat for yourself, you may be washing your face AND washing your money down the drain at the same time. Let me explain…
In case you were sleeping in Biology class, your skin is your largest organ. Most anything you soap up with, or slather on your skin enters into your bloodstream and eventually internal organs in less than a minute! That’s some serious Matrix shit you guys!!! To badasses out there fighting cancer and various autoimmune disorders, this science fact is important. STORY TIME! One of my friends had been battling Crohn’s Disease for the majority of her life. While doing everything she needed for her nutritional requirements, it wasn’t till she switched to non-toxic products that she went into remission!! Now I know this may seem a little unrelatable, but I want you guys to really understand that toxin-free products in your home are IMPORTANT. Not just for you but for your family. However, if you were once a pirate, have a black heart, and have yet to be convinced, follow me to the selfish reasons you should switch…
Horror story time. You’ve been working crazy shifts the last two weeks, you’re exhausted but you think, “hey I deserve a treat”, so you go to Sephora that magic candy land of beauty fun, you splurge on something but you deserve it baby!!!! Now, after using it for a couple days you find out….IT’S NOT GIVING YOU THE RESULTS IT PROMISED!!! AHHHHHHHHH!!!! Don’t worry that was just a made up story. I know it was insanely scary. Now, the real horror is that this story could happen to you again and again if you aren’t paying attention to your labels. My rule of thumb is “it doesn’t matter what is IN the product but what is NOT IN the product”. It’s extra fun if your new facial serum has cucumber and goji berries in it, but if it also has sulphates, tallow, and petroleum based ingredients it gets canceled out. TO THE LAB!!!!
When harmful toxins make their way into your products (and they do because they are cheap and great for keeping the shelf-life long which cosmetic companies LOVE so hard) your skin is missing out on all the benefits of the good stuff. Most of these bad fillers are OCCLUSIVE ELEMENTS. Boom! #WORDOFTHEWEEK #SCIENCE #GLAMOUR So these occlusive elements are too big at the cellular level to get into your pores and skin leaving most of the product sitting on top. That leads to blackheads, larger pores, your skin leaching moisture, and worst of all the inability of your skin to release toxins (sweat). Yuck to the double yuck right?!? The example I give to clients is Vaseline. It’s 100% petroleum based (you realize that is foam that comes out of the ground when they pump oil right?) Because it sits on top of your skin it is not moisturizing but protecting. So, great for skiing right? When you are flying down those insane slopes Vaseline is the perfect friend. Do you want the rest of your petroleum based products shielding your face on normal days though? ABSOLUTELY NOT. You want water based products with real readable ingredients that will soak into the cellular level of your skin and actually work!!
Here’s my list of ingredients to SCRAP…
- Phthalates
- Sulphates
- Parabens
- Formaldehyde- cause we’re not dead yet ya’ll!
- Phenoxyethanol
- BHA and BHT
- Petroleum
- Coal-tar dyes
- DEA compounds
- Siloxanes
- Tallow- (which is rendered animal fat- look it up if you want to ruin your day)
- Lanolin- Sheep sweat. Also in everything! Also gross!
I’m not suggesting you live off the grid and make all your creams at home. (Although starting a goat farm in the wilderness sounds amazing. Or maybe I just love cheese too much) Common guys the future is now! There are companies that already make these amazing toxin free products including the one I work for, Arbonne! So get out there and start reading your labels. I PROMISE your skin will thank you and the world will notice your new glow.
I wrote this article wearing under eye collagen pads, Julia the #MULTITASKER
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