'Synthetic chemicals in our skincare.' 'Harmful toxins in beauty products.'
Saying that parabens have been found in breast tissue is kind of like passing on that hypey, scaremongering email you received as a forward in your inbox.
I've decided not to write a response to Toxic Beauty here: how synthetic ingredients can actually be safer than natural ones, why parabens aren't evil (or at least have little conclusive evidence against them) and the fact that EVERYTHING ON EARTH has chemicals in it, because, why reinvent the wheel?
Paula Begoun has decades of experience and research behind her in the field of cosmetics: the science and the ingredients in them. I'm happy to recommend her website where you can read hundreds of balanced and fascinating articles on this very topic. You could start with this article on 'natural' ingredients.
The Beauty Brains in another fave of mine. They are female cosmetic scientists who apply science to every beauty-related question and product they come across, then dish the dirt to their readers. Posing dilemmas like Why You Should Be Suspicious Of Beauty Authorities, Does Origins Skin Care Open Your Pores?, Can Saliva Cure Acne? and The Top 5 Reasons Skin Care Products Stop Working, they can help you avoid the marketing 'BS' so common in the beauty industry.
Go there now! I promise you'll thank me. :-)
