First of all, I would like to say that I have lost three people to cancer in the last month – my uncle, my friend and my stepfather’s sister. All of them far too young to be leaving their spouses and children behind. With every death, I became more frustrated with the fact that they [...]
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Parabens (it rears its ugly head again)
Posted in Ingredients, The Bad on January 19, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The Commercialization of Breast Cancer (I’ll just take some of that pink pepto bismol, thanks)
Posted in The Bad, tagged breast cancer, breast cancer awareness month, pinkwashing on October 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
It’s October, the time of the year when you get bombarded with pink products and feel good campaigns in support of breast cancer. This year I was reminded of this by public figure, Lisa Ling who posted on her Facebook fan page that Proctor & Gamble (P & G) is partnering with the National Breast [...]
How to Identify Petrochemicals in Your Cosmetics
Posted in Greening Your Bathroom, Ingredients, The Bad, tagged petrochemicals in cosmetics, petroleum products on June 25, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Petroleum – love it or hate it? I’m guessing that most of you hate it. The sad fact is that as much as we resent this commodity, it is unavoidable unless you are living with wolves. The latest catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico has put many of us over the edge in our disdain for [...]
Plastic Versus Glass: Is There Really a Debate?
Posted in Greening Your Bathroom, The Bad, tagged BPA, eco-friendly, environment, garbage patch, glass, marine life, plastic, pollution, pthalates on July 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It seems like everywhere you look, there’s plastic. Plastic bottles, plastic toys, plastic bags – there’s even a garbage patch of plastic bottles twice the size of Texas floating in the north Pacific Ocean (if that’s not a sign that we suck, I don’t know what is). It lines the shelves of all of our [...]
Roadkill Soap Anyone?
Posted in Greening Your Bathroom, Read Your Labels, The Bad, tagged animal products, rendered animal fat, soap, vegan on April 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Does the idea of slathering rendered animal fat all over your body sound appealing to you? If not, you may have done just that this morning in the shower without even knowing it. Sodium tallowate, a combination of lye and animal fat, is a very common ingredient in soap. In fact, you would be hard-pressed to find a [...]
Nanotechnology – A Small Problem
Posted in The Bad, Uncategorized, tagged cosmetics, eco-systems, health, nanotechnology, regulations on March 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Ever heard of nanotechnology? It is all the rage in labs right now and it’s been slipped into your cosmetics without you even knowing. Nanoparticles are substances that have been manipulated into very, very, very small particles - we’re talking 1/100 000 the width of a human hair. You won’t be able to find them on the shelf because nano labelling [...]
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