Although there’s been a lot of bad news about safe cosmetics, it’s not all bad.

We’ve written extensively about dangerous ingredients in cosmetics and skin care products, and also about the importance of using natural skin care products that don’t contain dangerous ingredients.

And we’ve highlighted some of the studies done which show such problems with cosmetics and skin care products like lead in lipsticks and phthalates in personal and beauty and body care products. And also about parabens in skin care products and cosmetics.

From time to time come good news comes along and today is such a day. The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics has alerted us today that they have detected a decline in the levels of phthalates in some products. In particular they point to the perfume Poison.

They found 4 different phthalates in Poison during the last test, but this time they have tested Poison and found it to be - less poisonous. No phthalates at all. This is great news and means, it appears, that the body care and cosmetics and perfume companies are starting to take notice of the fact that the public don’t want poisonous ingredients in their cosmetics and skin care products.

It would seem obvious wouldn’t it?

But a small step is an important one nevertheless. And the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics says it isn’t confined just to Poison, but there are signs that some of the bigger companies are slowly removing poisonous ingredients like phthalates from their products this has to be good. More on Good News On Safe Cosmetics.

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This is how you tell if a cosmetics or skin care company has a commitment to product safety.

We’ve talked elsewhere about the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics. It’s an organization set up to monitor the ingredients used in the cosmetics and skin care products and anti aging products and all those other beauty and personal care products that you, and just about everyone else, uses every day.

It’s a sad indictment that there is any need for an organization like the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics. Surely we should expect that any product that we put on or into our bodies must automatically be safe for us to use. But sadly that’s not the case, and there are many instances of products containing ingredients that are known to be hazardous to human use.

Like the lead found in many of the big brand name lipsticks recently tested. Or the new Environmental Working Group report, just a month old, finding hormone disrupting chemicals in many cosmetics and body care products, and then finding that many of our teenage girls had up to 16 of these toxic chemicals in their bodies.

So the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics has a “Compact For Safe Cosmetics” (there’s a bit of a pun there) for cosmetics, skincare and personal and beauty care product manufacturers to evidence their commitment to product safety.

How does it work? Well any company that produces a line of cosmetics or other products and is prepared to sign the Compact can do so, and by doing so it commits itself to the following:

That all of the cosmetics and personal care products made by our company anywhere in the world meet the formulation standards and deadlines set by the European Union Directive 76/768/EEC to be free of chemicals that are known or strongly suspected of causing cancer, mutation or birth defects. To implement substitution plans that replace hazardous materials with safer alternatives within three years. We will accomplish this by: * Conducting an inventory of potential chemicals of concern in our products (or byproducts) to determine their toxicity to living things, their persistence in the environment, their ability to increase in concentration in the food chain, their contamination of our bodies, or qualities they possess that pose hazards including carcinogens, endocrine disrupters, sensitizers, mutagens, reproductive toxins, developmental toxins and neurotoxins * Developing an aggressive substitution plan and timeline: to move to safer materials, prioritizing for substitution those compounds internationally recognized as most toxic; to provide for an ongoing review of safer materials and chemicals as effective, cost-competitive alternatives are available, and; to work with upstream suppliers to provide toxicity data on chemicals in products. * Publicly reporting on progress to meet these goals.

Oh, and the European directive is basically this. Whilst the US has done very little to attempt to control the use of dangerous chemicals in cosmetics and skincare products and body care products the European Union has, and has a directive banning “the use of chemicals that are known or strongly suspected of causing cancer, mutation or birth defects.”

There are many companies that have signed the Compact For Safe Cosmetics, including Xtend Life who, we believe, make the best, and safest skin care products in the world. And Ferro Cosmetics who make a wonderful line of safe, effective cosmetics.

Both wonderful manufacturers of safe, effective products that you and your daughters can use with confidence. More on How Does The Compact For Safe Cosmetics Work?

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Actually the first consideration isn’t which anti aging product is the best.

We have had a reader send us a question. Which is the best anti aging skin care product? And so we’ve reproduced our answer here for everyone to read.

Dear Susan, We think, before you consider which is the best anti aging skin care product you need to ask a preliminary question. For us there is a question that we think is much more important than how well a particular skin care product works. The question is this. How safe are those skin care products? Because unfortunately many skin care products contain nasty ingredients and can be unsafe. So before you even begin to consider how well any particular skin care product works you need to consider if it offers any dangers to you if you use it. Because no matter how well any anti aging skin care product works it’s of no use to you if it is potentially dangerous. And there are many skin care products that are potentially dangerous, and listed as a cancer risk. No amount of great skin care would justify to us taking a risk of getting cancer. We’d put up with wrinkles from our head to our feet before we took a risk with cancer. That’s not to say that if you use skin care products you’ll get cancer, but the RISK is there. Just have a look at some of the big brand name skin care products at the Cosmetic Safety Database and see what risks they detect. Only once you’ve established that a product or a product range is safe would we even begin to think about how well it works. That’s why we are so anxious to get the word out about Xtend Life. Because they offer a top shelf range of natural skin care products that are, firstly, safe. They are a signatory to the Compact for Safe Cosmetics and have a stated commitment to making natural skin care products that are SAFE ENOUGH TO EAT. You can’t do much better than that for safety. And to reiterate, safety comes before how well a product works. Fortunately the Xtend Life products work equally as well as their commitment to safety. So by all means consider how well skin care products work, but if it was us we would always ask first, how SAFE are these skin care products, and research them well, using the methods we’ve outlined here before. Best Wishes Editors Natural Health - Natural Skin Care.

We hope that explains it well. More on What Is The Best Anti Aging Skin Care Product?

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(And make sure you read our page about Natural Skin Care, it's quite an eye opener about modern skin care products.)

There’s suspect or downright dangerous ingredients in cosmetics and skin care products.

We’ve talked at length about dangerous ingredients in your skin care products and cosmetics. And about the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics as well.

Here’s a video about it. It’s only short but it tells you a little more. It talks purely about dangerous cosmetics/safe cosmetics but of course the same things all apply to skin care products and anti aging products as well.

We hope you find the video interesting. It’s just a few more things for you to think about before you buy those skin care and anti aging products you normally buy, (unless you buy your skin care products here.)

Interesting isn’t it?

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(And make sure you read our page about Natural Skin Care, it's quite an eye opener about modern skin care products.)