Health and Fitness

I’ve been hearing a lot lately about how there are potentially toxic ingredients in beauty products, such as shampoo, moisturizer, and lipgloss. I’m not sure how much to believe, and how much is hype, but if it is true that some common ingredients could cause cancer, I’d definitely prefer to use products that don’t contain those ingredients.

The problem: what am I supposed to be avoiding, and do products without those ingredients actually work?

I already use natural cleaning products around the house, and for some beauty products, I’ve found options I can make at home (or buy from someone who makes them at home) that contain food ingredients, which I’m reasonably sure are non-toxic, since I use the same ingredients when I cook meals for myself.

Here’s my problem: I don’t know enough about the non-food things that are added to beauty products to know which ones are potentially unsafe (or perhaps just believed to be unsafe by some people, because really, I don’t know if they actually are unsafe or not) but I’d really like to find a hair conditioner and detangler that I know isn’t bad for me and that works well.

My hair is long, and there’s a ton of it, but it’s fine-textured, so it gets tangled really easily. I’ve tried two all-natural conditioners so far, and neither worked well for my hair (but they were fine for my husband, whose shorter hair doesn’t have the same tangling problem as mine). So I’m on a mission to find out more about which non-natural ingredients are believed to be toxic, so that I can go to the store able to read the ingredient lists and know which ones are okay to try. And then I’m going to test a bunch of non-toxic conditioning products and see if ANY of them actually work for me.

Know of a great product, or reliable information online about which ingredients are toxic? Leave me a comment, I’d love to hear opinions/advice about this.