Prism is going deep on clean beauty and what it truly means and why it’s important that we have a strong understand of the ingredients used in our skin care products.
Clean beauty has gained a lot of momentum over the years and has grown into a booming industry. With everyone becoming more conscious of what their putting on and into their body, it was no surprise that the ingredients in our make-up and beauty products were under scrutiny. Ingredients like parabens, fragrences, aluminum compounds, ethoxylated agents, formaldehyde, refined petroleum, hydroquinone, talc, triclosan, silica and oxybenzone. If we did an inventory of the products we are using, even on a daily basis, we’d be shocked to see how many of the products we own have these dirty culprits in them.
“Of the 82,000 ingredients used in personal care products, almost 14,000 have been found to be industrial chemicals that are carcinogens, pesticides and hormone disruptors.
Clean versus green- whats the difference?
When you hear clean think, safe for people and the planet. Clean means that a beauty product should have considered human and environmental health, using a nontoxic element as a baseline and plant-based ingredients for active results. Much like eating, clean rejects the idea of processed foods and focuses on nourishing, plant-based produce that delivers all the vitamins and antioxidants needed for a healthy immune and digestive system. The same is true for clean skin care. On the other hand, the word green should mean that the product does no harm to the environment. For instance, a reef-safe sunscreen with biodegradable packaging would be labeled green. However, this is a wishy-washy term with no true definition and is usually used as an umbrella for any product that claims to protect the planet’s resources.
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We would like to be clear that, “Natural” doesn’t automatically mean a product is better or safer for you, as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has nebulous criteria on just what constitutes a natural product-“natural” isn’t regulated for cosmetics, so it can be used purely as a marketing term. The same way that an ingredient might be natural or organic, but that doesn’t mean that there’s no chance you’ll have an adverse or allergic reaction to it, so it’s important to be aware of what you’re using and how your body responds.
Next week we’ll dive deeper into the ingredients commonly used in skin care and beauty products and outline why they’re not good to be using- especially on a daily basis!
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