The Healthy Parenting Blog

This is one of those things that I just can’t get past.  As many know, on this natural living path, there are many times that you have to weigh out what is important to you.  Its near impossible to eliminate all toxins and/or chemicals that we are exposed to.  Propylene glycol in ice cream and Entenmann’s is one of those things for me that I can’t get out of my head enough to be able to consume them (not that I eat them anyhow). 

The chemicals in personal care products is another for me.  Let me show a statement made by EWG recently and see if it has as much impact on you as it did on me;

98% of all products contain one of more ingredients never publicly assessed for safety.

Not only that,

More than 750 personal care products sold in the U.S. violate industry safety standards or cosmetic safety standards in other industrialized countries.

EWG states the following in regards to their massive and extensive analysis of ingredients in over 23,000 products sold in the U.S. ;

We found nearly 400 products sold in the U.S. containing chemicals that are prohibited for use in cosmetics in other countries, and over 400 products containing ingredients that cosmetic industry safety panels have found unsafe when used as directed on product labels, including the U.S.-based Cosmetic Ingredient Review (CIR) and the International Fragrance Association.

If you’ve read through the HP site’s space on Personal Care products, you know my stand on this already.  There’s so much tossed at us that we all just assume is safe because otherwise it wouldn’t be permitted to be sold to us.  This couldn’t be further from the truth.  The cosmeceutical  industry is largely a SELF REGULATED industry. Do your research on those ingredients you are putting on your family. Will it kill them?  Probably not but it certainly isn’t helping them any.