Our skin is the largest organ in our bodies, it is a two-way membrane. Toxins can be absorbed through the skin via hair follicle and sebaceous glands, but not through the sweat glands, into our circulation system. Or they can be eliminated through the skin via perspiration. One square inch of skin contains approximately 65 hairs, 650 sweat glands and 100 sebaceous glands. This means that every square inch of your skin is like a thousand open mouths, absorbing what is put on it. 

Which Skin Care products are Truly Natural and Proactive? 

If skin care manufactures claimed that their products penetrated the skin they would actually be classed as 'drugs'. This would mean that they would be governed by stricter regulations. However, at present we are very aware that the skin absorbs the products put on it, and because of this we can nourish our skin from the outside, which is good. But, this also means if we put harmful chemicals on our skin it too gets absorbed into our bloodstream, chemicals that would not be allowed to take orally. These chemicals are still absorbed via our skin.

On our Skin Care Items, what do the Labels "Natural" and "Organic" mean? 

The terms "natural" and "organic" in skin care terms means one thing to the consumers and something totally different to the marketers of the product. If we take the word 'natural' for example, and look it up in the dictionary this is what it says, "existing in, or caused by nature; not artificial; uncultivated; wild existing in natural state; not disguised or altered". 

It is very clear to me and you what natural means, but to the people who have to market the skin care products we use, it means something different. They have put a whole new slant on the word 'natural', and are starting to change their interpretation to suit themselves.

There are many labels that have the list of chemicals on them, some of them are followed by the phrase "derived from " (some natural substance). This is so very misleading! Consumers who are looking for genuinely 'natural' products are being taken for a ride.

Synthetic Chemicals are Anything but Natural (click here to see the Nasty chart) 

Some chemicals such as, Sodium Hydroxysultaine or Cocamide DEA are followed by the words "derived from coconut oil" this leads the consumer to believe that these chemicals must somehow be natural. This is true in some cases, if a natural oil or extract is actually used, however it is actually irrelevant because the product you end up with after the chemical solvent extraction and processing is usually anything but natural or pure. It is a chemical concoction with a very long strange name to describe the process the original "natural" substance went through.   

We should all be concerned about the products we use on our skin, and your families skin. Many different chemicals are added to these skin care and beauty products, and long term they will do us more harm than good.