WHY IS IT IMPORTANT FOR US TO CHOOSE ORGANIC / NATURAL COSMETICS?
Whilst advocates of synthetic skincare claim that the skin is virtually watertight, the skin can actually absorb up to 60% of substances applied to its surface. Thus it can soak potential carcinogenic ingredients from our cosmetics and increase our risk of disease later in life. Natural and or organic cosmetics are fast becoming the number one choice of informed consumers who are not prepared to take unnecessary health risks. Once a toxic chemical has seeped into the skin it eventually ends up in the blood stream and travels with the lymph across the body. Eventually these chemicals are filtered out by the liver and flushed away by the kidneys but they can sometime remain inside the body in our fat where they can accumulate over the years. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORGANIC AND NATURAL COSMETICS? Natural cosmetics are made with few if any synthetic chemicals and use a wide range of plants, fruit extracts, minerals and vitamins as their ingredients. Basically if you can’t read the i
