How To Spot Harmful Toxins in Makeup

Video Transcript

"One of the most important things that you can do as a consumer of personal care products, including, and especially your skin care regimen, because women tend to use more of these products on a daily basis than men, but men too, is read labels. Every product on the market today should have a label. And at the top of the label will be the ingredients that are the biggest volume in the container to the least amount of volume will be on the ones on the bottom of the list. There is a website called "The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics" and they will direct you to a list link. And you can input any ingredient on any personal care product list and they will tell you its origins, what it is made from, where it is derived from and how it's good or bad for you. And they rank them. So this personal care line that I use in my spa services is called Natural Pathica and this one is called Esara. They are professional care products, but they are formulated and specifically chosen because they have mostly plant essentials in them. Plant derivatives, plant oils, plant essential oils and very very few altered or synthetic ingredients. If they have any kind of chemical compound, they are natural chemicals derived from things like green tea, milk lipids, milk amino acids and so forth. So you read the ingredient on your moisturizer. This is one of the most important aspects of any person's skin care regimen. Moisturizer, or cleanser, followed by moisturizer, and you'll find that in this particular product it's mostly safflower oil, sea algae extract, rose flower water, oat bran, safflower oil, ginseng root. So the list is basically plant ingredients. One of the most important things that you can do in reading your labels is get familiar with the ingredients that are toxic. "