How To "Green" Your Skin Lotion

Video Transcript

"When you pick out products that you are investigating ingredients for and you start reading labels, you'll find incredibly long list of chemicals. Most of these are to increase the foaming action to increase the preservative capabilities because of most of the personal care products are made in huge batches and they need to be shipped to far destinations in all kinds of different temperatures. One of the things you'll start to notice is you'll start to find things like sodium laurel sulphate. This is a foaming action, it's been proven lately to be highly toxic. You'll find other ingredients that are found in oven cleaners and car washes and especially petroleum derivative products. Propaline glycolic, one of the commonly found ingredients found in personal care products and it's a trash ingredient, from oil, from petroleum. So learn how to read your ingredients. Investigate the ingredients, find out where they come from. See if they are on your personal care products. You don't want them absorbing into your skin. The most safe, pure ingredients are plant oils. For instance, this one is comprised of rosewood oil and sweet orange oil. This one has lotus leaf oil. Those are incredibly moisturizing. They give an incredible anti-aging factor to anybody's skin and you don't have to worry about them holding chemical ingredients and synthetics. Here we are in the heat of the summer and we've been reading the dermatologist warnings and the skin cancer experts warnings using sun screen. But I think what they are showing now are that you need to read the ingredients on your skin care products. This is a sunscreen that contains mostly zinc oxide. It's a pure mineral, it's a reflector which means it will bounce back the UV rays that we are so concerned with. And it contains a skin soothing ingredient called lavender. Lavender essential oil, which is an incredibly pure product, this is a daily skin moisturizer. The SPF of this is an eighteen. "