Julie Pici Unmasked

Check your cosmetics girls…Here’s another tid-bit regarding cosmetic ingredients.

Another frightening thought is putting petroleum anything on your skin! Vasaline (aka. Petroleum Jelly, Paraffin Jelly) is used by cosmetic companies for their creams, eye shadows, lipsticks, etc…because it’s an inexpensive emollient (meanng a creamy product that is placed on the skin to soften and moisturize.) The oily film helps prevent evaporation of moisture from the skin and protects the skin from irritation, however, by doing this, it sits on top of the skin, most of it not being absorbed (thank goodness) and does not allow the skin to breathe. Do you really want to put something that is related to sulfur, kerosene, fuel, and asphalt on your skin?

Tallow is the next inexpensive ingredient that lots of cosmetic companies use in their products.  Tallow is the fatty tissue of cattle and sheep (and other animals).  Once it’s boiled, the top greasy layer is scraped off and used in creams, lipsticks, shampoos, soaps, etc…This is a serious allergin (meaning a substance that provokes an allergic reaction). 

On an even more serious note: type in “rendering plant photos” and you’ll be saddened and disgusted by the photos that appear.  Where do you think road-kill and euthanized animals go?  Didn’t think about that did you…

Visit http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0106-02.htm to see what else goes in the “cooking” process…

Rendering plants are good in a sense that they take care of “waste”, but we don’t need this on our skin.

Now I’m not saying that the cosmetic products you’re using contains one or both of these ingredients, basically, what it comes down to is do your research before you buy.  We spend time reading food labels, so why not cosmetic labels?

Visit http://www.justpici.myarbonne.com for more information regarding pure, safe, beneficial, botanically based products from Arbonne International, for all skin types.  Our products do not contain these ingredients nor are they tested on animals.