anyone visit the beauty brains?

[creativehoney]

I found a site beautybrains.com has anyone seen this site? Has lots of interesting stuff.
That's where I learned about co washing.

[free_hug]

For me it's defin itely the first time i see the page, thanks for posting.

It's also great you did, because now i can ask the long hair community: what do you think of these?

http://thebeautybrains.com/2009/05/0...etic-nonsense/
and
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...chemicals.html

[Milui Elenath]

For me it's defin itely the first time i see the page, thanks for posting.

It's also great you did, because now i can ask the long hair community: what do you think of these?

http://thebeautybrains.com/2009/05/0...etic-nonsense/ snip

I'll respond to the first link I am too outraged to proceed to the 2nd. Let me address the ingredients they disparage.

Soyabeans and its products are largely genetically modified these days which is of more concern to me that the phytoestrogens it contains, aside from that ALOT of vegetables contain estrogen. A balanced diet is what it is all about.

Olive Oil may slow skin repair but I have never read, seen or heard that before. Olive oil has a lot of other benefits on hair (I'm sure we agree! For health etc). When they use the word slow, what exactly does that mean anyway, slow in comparison to what?

The lavender and tea tree refers to a preliminary not yet conclusive study that Lavender and Tea tree are endocrine disruptors - increasing estrogen. Lavender is great for burns, skin conditions and high blood pressure. Conversely its terrible for low blood pressure. That is an already established fact.

But
I think by now everyone is aware that natural does not necessarily equal safe and as LHC demonstrates something that works for one won't necessarily work for all. Chemical, synthetic and man made do not equal safe either! Notice the concern of the article in regard to estrogen, Soyabean, Lavender, tea tree and also note their open admittance that parabens raise concern on this matter also. It seems to me this article is extremely bias in trying to turn one thing against another by saying. Parabens may be bad but natural products are bad too!

Personally I prefer to put natural ingredients on my skin because they are generally the sought you can eat! I have two other reasons for going natural - I believe natural ingredients are more easily broken down in the body than chemicals that may have been forced together through unnatural means such as extreme heat, various catalysts etc. The second reason is similar except it refers to them breaking down in the environment rather than the body not to mention the environmental impact of industrialised cosmetic manufacture in creating toxic byproducts that are not used in the jar/bottle but nonetheless are produced and require disposal of.

I just had to laugh at the mention of small companies trying to outcompete large companies. Large companies with so much more advertising funds, funds that could pay for something like this article perhaps. Its especially ironic as the more natural you go the less likely you need any company large or small, you just make your own - or grow it.

Sorry Creativehoney but I haven't looked past that article yet!

and sorry for the long post it just pushed my button!

[free_hug]

Milui Elenath, wow, exhaustive answer! Sorry for outraging you, was totally not my intention...

Well, i also realized i have something more to add:

the problem with synthetic stuff, better or not, is that it's synthetic. With hundreds of millions of women using them, and more and more of them, i am totally willing to include environmental questions in the issue.
So - go for natural! And, as Milui Elenath points out, find the natural that suits you better.

[Milui Elenath]

No worries free hug. I feel better now I've vented!

[Phalaenopsis]

If you drink over 6 litre of water on one day, that's toxic too!
What's very good for somebody, might really be bad for another.

My ends look more healthy with silicones, but the shine of my hair is at its best with natural shampoos.

There are bigger dangers out there then stuff in shampoo. All the water is contaminated, we eat too much sugar,...

[florenonite]

I've seen the beauty brains a couple times when it's been linked from here, but that's it.

For me it's defin itely the first time i see the page, thanks for posting.

It's also great you did, because now i can ask the long hair community: what do you think of these?

http://thebeautybrains.com/2009/05/0...etic-nonsense/
and
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...chemicals.html

Well, the second one's from the Daily Fail (name stolen from Lady Verity), and the first one is linking to the Mail (and calling it excellent, no less!), and that alone means that I don't trust either. According to the Mail, everything and its wife gives you cancer; it's all just fearmongering.

Seriously, I have friends who accuse one another of reading the Mail as an insult! Things like "You're panicking, do you read the Daily Mail or something?" Don't believe anything you see there unless it's been verified by other independent sources (ie sources that as far as you can tell haven't read the Mail's article). The only thing it's good for is for laughs. Or kindling for fire

ETA: with regards to the BB article, I would say I agree insofar as, yes, most commercial products have been tested and are safe. However, that doesn't mean that natural products are inherently bad for you. Personally, I try to limit the amount of stuff I wouldn't consume that I use on my skin simply because stuff can and is absorbed through the skin. That said, the purpose of the skin is to form a barrier, so obviously not everything put on the skin is absorbed and hence once doesn't need to be as careful with what one puts on one's skin as what one' consumes.

ETA2: there is danger with natural products in that they can be improperly preserved, but beyond that I don't see how they can be any more dangerous than synthetic ones.

[Unofficial_Rose]

Seriously, I have friends who accuse one another of reading the Mail as an insult! Things like "You're panicking, do you read the Daily Mail or something?"

Oh I love that! I was once reading a discarded copy of the DM on the train and an ex-colleague got on, whereupon I said "I didn't buy this, honest". I think I'd have been less embarrassed if I'd been reading a copy of Naked Men Monthly or something.

[Fethenwen]

Oh man, there was a article about mineral oils and their myths. Whatever the article says, I with personal experience am much happier without using mineral oil thank you very much. Mineral oil in body lotion, hand lotion and lip balm have the effect which causes me to get addicted to the product. Now that I have avoided that stuff, I don't have such problems anymore.

[Wavelength]

I've looked at beautybrains.com occasionally, but they've never impressed me with their braininess.