Beauty Ingredients You Want To Avoid, because your beauty does not have to cost your health!

You don’t need to be a cosmetic chemist to know enough to choose authentically clean and green, natural and organic beauty products.

Evidence, based on wide-ranging sources,  indicates that these Beauty Ingredients You Want To Avoid may be skin allergens, irritants, hormone-disruptors or potential carcinogens.

It’s important to remember that not all chemicals are bad. After all, water—hydrogen + oxygen = H2O—is a chemical compound! But there are bad ones you will want to avoid, and they are the ones we focus on here.

  1. ​Ingredients with PEGs and ETHs in their names (i.e. polyETHylene, polyETHylene glycol, cetearETH-20, etc.)
  2. Artificial colors (ingredients preceded by FD&C or D&C colors, i.e. D&C Red 30 Lake, FD&C Blue 1)
  3. Chemical sunblockers (i.e. octocrylene, octinoxate, oxybenzone, octisalate, and avobenzone)
  4. Ingredients that can release formaldehyde (i.e. diazolidinyl urea, DMDM hydantoin, imidazolidinyl urea, and quaternium 15)
  5. Parabens (i.e. ethylparaben, methylparaben, butylparaben, and propylparaben)
  6. Petroleum derivatives (i.e. petroleum, mineral oil, petrolatum, ethylene glycol, propylene glycol, butylene glycol, and dimethicone)
  7. Sulfates (i.e. sodium lauryl-, sodium laureth-, ammonium laureth-, and sodium myreth-sulfate)
  8. Toluene (also known as methylbenzene)
  9. Triclosan
  10. Nanoparticles
  11. Synthetic fragrances (often listed as “fragrance” or “parfum”)

If you already being concious about your skin care, you most likely wish that your beautician will use chemicals-free products as well, right?

Youré invited for the all-natural facial at Pure Natural Salon because your beauty doesnt need to cost you your health!