Re: Organic Food: Worth the Money?>cosmetics

[Guest guest]

Great article except for one thing. The skin is permeable and all

that goes on the skin goes in the bloodstream and therefore should

be organic just like food. Great book about this is Judy Vance's

Beauty to Die For. She was very, very ill from cosmetics (includes

personal care items like deodorant, soap, shampoo, body lotions,

etc).

Products should be certified organic, not just organic which

basically means that it contains carbon. According to the industry

standards, petroleum products are organic too! Become a label

reader! If you can't pronounce it don't use it is my general rule

of thumb.

Check www.ewg.org for a detailed listing of hundreds (thousands?) of

personal care products and their safety.

If anyone is interested I could post an article I wrote called Dying

to Be Beautiful. I use only certified organic products and have

really noticed an improvement in my skin since doing so.

Sharon

>

> Organic Food: Worth the Money? Magazine Article Lists Organic

Items

> Worthy of Your Shopping Cart By Miranda Hitti WebMD Medical News

> Reviewed By Louise Chang, MD

>

> Jan. 10, 2006 -- Pondering the purchase of organic foods? A story

in

> Consumer Reports spells out which organic items are worth buying --

> and which aren't.

[Guest guest]

Thanks Sharon. I thought the difference between 'organic' and

'certified organic' was just a legal/government or formal difference. I thought

that everything which said it was organic, WAS completely 'organic'. I

thought that it having a ceritificate was just a formality and more for legal

and

government reasons then anything else. But it never occured to me that people

whom say something was organic just for a scam or marketing purposes.

I do read labels now for most things - - but some many products just

don't seem to have labels, or at least not detailed ones.

I would be interested in your article please!

Thanks for the url!

Blessings

Shan