Glimpse The Best In Skin Care

Not Just A Pretty Face: The Ugly Side Of The Beauty Industry 
  By Stacy Malkan
 has won a top award in independent publishing. The book received a Silver Medal in the category of Health/Medicine from the Independent Publisher Book Awards.
 
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Posted on December 15th, 2008 under Safe products, dangerous chemicals in cosmetics, skin care. Tags: Safe Cosmetics, unsafe cosmetics. Comments: None

Some Interesting Web Sites
 
 
www.Cosmeticdatabase.org    Skin Deep is a
Cosmetic Safety Database by Environmental Working Group

Skin Deep is a safety guide to cosmetics and personal care products brought to you by researchers at the Environmental Working Group.
Skin Deep pairs ingredients in more than 41,000 products against 50 definitive toxicity and regulatory databases, making it the largest integrated [...]

Posted on December 14th, 2008 under Safe products, dangerous chemicals in cosmetics. Tags: makeup, safe chemicals, unsafe chemicals. Comments: None

The BPA Rollercoaster

Finally, some good news from FDA on bispenol A (BPA), the infamous toxic plastics chemical.
Thanks to scientists who refused to be intimidated by Big Plastics and the relentless hammering of parents, consumers, and health and environment advocates, FDA is being forced to reevaluate BPA. BPA is a synthetic estrogen and industrial chemical that [...]

Posted on November 24th, 2008 under dangerous chemicals in cosmetics. Comments: None

Despite having a hazard score of 10 (highest), phthalates are found in72% of cosmetics!
this harmful toxins so prevalent that one billion tons are produced every year! Yet phthalates are known to cause birth defects and reproductive mutations, particularly in males. They also mimic naturally occurring hormones which can adversely affect female brest tissue, a leading [...]

Posted on November 16th, 2008 under dangerous chemicals in cosmetics, skin care. Tags: Allergens, Carcingens, cosmetics, Glimpse, skin care, toxins. Comments: None

Beverly Hollister, health and wellness industry veteran and the inspiration behind Glimpse™ Intuitive Skin Care by XanGo, was recently featured on the Danielle Lin Show. Click here to listen to the segment, and hear Beverly describe Glimpse.
Glimpse will be available on November 7th.
Are chemicals in our personal care products harming us?
This is the question many [...]

Posted on October 27th, 2008 under Safe products, dangerous chemicals in cosmetics, skin care. Tags: Glimpse, Safe skin care, skin care, unsafe ingredients. Comments: None

 
Published on Environmental Working Group (http://www.ewg.org)
Teen Girls’ Body Burden of Hormone-Altering Cosmetics Chemicals
Adolescent exposures to cosmetic chemicals of concern
Published September 24, 2008
 
Teens are vulnerable

In Linda (San Francisco, CA): 13 hormone-altering cosmetics chemicals
A sudden flurry of interrelated hormone signals initiates the complex process of puberty in the body of an adolescent, triggering rapid development of the [...]

Posted on October 6th, 2008 under dangerous chemicals in cosmetics. Comments: None

Published on Environmental Working Group (http://www.ewg.org)
Teen Girls’ Body Burden of Hormone-Altering Cosmetics Chemicals
Adolescent exposures to cosmetic chemicals of concern
Published September 24, 2008

Teen Girls’ Body Burden of Hormone-Altering Cosmetics Chemicals

The 20 teens we tested had an average of 13 hormone-altering cosmetics chemicals in their bodies.
Laboratory tests reveal adolescent girls across America are contaminated with chemicals commonly [...]

Posted on October 6th, 2008 under dangerous chemicals in cosmetics. Tags: Hormone altering cosmetics. Comments: 1