The Skinny on Personal Care Products
By BarnSwallow Botanicals LLC
Date: March 27, 2010
BarnSwallow Botanicals strives to use all-natural ingredients in its products. We do this to avoid the cumulative toxic effects of synthetic chemicals on your skin.
Your skin is the largest organ in your body. When you use personal care products, many of the ingredients are absorbed into your blood stream. How many personal care products do you use in a single day? Shampoo, conditioner, body wash, facial cleanser, hand soap, hand sanitizer, shave cream, hair gel, hair spray, deodorant, body lotion, facial moisturizer, makeup, and more.
Now read a few labels on the products that you use every day. Do you know what methyl parabenis? or diethanolamine? or phenoxyethanol? What is it made of? Where does it come from? How does it affect your body? your health?
Many common ingredients in personal care products are known or suspected carcinogens (cancer-causing agents), hormone disruptors, or allergens. (For more information, go to www.safecosmetics.org and www.cosmeticsdatabase.org.)
When you use those products day after day, questionable chemicals make their way into your body. Some people develop rashes, sensitivities, itchy eyes, or headaches. Other people just feel tired all the time without knowing why, never suspecting that these symptoms are the result of chemicals entering their bodies through the skin.
To avoid the cumulative effects of toxic ingredients, BarnSwallow Botanicals uses the finest ingredients available from sources we trust. We use just the good stuff.