| Dangerous Product #1: Mineral Powder - When you | | | | botox, they simply aren't true. Dr. Oz says that when |
| use mineral powder, the tiny nano-particles that make | | | | you are looking for a good face wrinkle creams, |
| up the powder become aersolized particles and get | | | | make sure it meets the following criteria: |
| into our lungs and can scar our lungs. When you blow | | | | - Fragrance - Free |
| small bubbles, you will notice that they decend | | | | - Color Free, why have extra chemicals to make |
| quickly... this is what happens with the small nano | | | | colors when its not necessary? |
| particles in mineral powder. Once the powder gets | | | | - Vitamin A (Retinols) is perhaps the super drug of |
| into our lungs, its nearly impossible to get it out and it | | | | wrinkles according to Dr. Perry and Dr. Oz! |
| can cause fibrosis. | | | | - Vitamin C is a collagen builder |
| Dr. Arthur Perry, author of Straight Talk about | | | | - Alpha Hydroxy Acid works to exfoliate your face |
| Cosmetic Surgery (Yale University Press Health & | | | | Dangerous Product #3: Lip Gloss - Most lip gloss |
| Wellness) (which I may just have to pick up at this | | | | comes from petroleum jelly, and when you put it on |
| price!!!), said that these same non-particles cause | | | | your lips, some of it inevitably gets into your |
| serious problems in industrial use, and we have seen | | | | stomach... so you are basically drinking gasoline. |
| it in miners and construction workers. However, it | | | | Petroleum Jelly is fine outside of your body, but you |
| takes 10-30 years to see the damage, and these | | | | do not want this stuff inside of your body. Dr. Oz |
| mineral powders are fairly new... but I don't want to | | | | really put it into perspective when he said that if you |
| find out that I have serious lung issues or even lung | | | | use 2-3 tubes a month for 10 years, then you will be |
| cancer in 10-30 years from using mineral powder! So | | | | consuming roughly 7 pounds of petroleum jelly. |
| lets not take the chance and be guinea pigs! Here are | | | | Dr. Perry said that petroleum jelly, when ingested, |
| save alternatives: | | | | may even cause cancer. In the EU (European Union), |
| - Liquid Foundation with Shimmer | | | | petroleum jelly is banned, except for when it is very |
| - Cream Blush or Bronzer | | | | pure. In the USA we don't know which forms of |
| - Packed Foundation or Pressed Powder | | | | petroleum jelly are pure and which are not. They |
| Dangerous Product #2: Wrinkle Cream - When you | | | | have done studies and found that women with |
| put cream on your face, it goes through the dermis | | | | breast cancer have twice the levels of these |
| and into your blood vessels, where it gets absorbed | | | | products in their breast tissue than women who don't |
| into your body... and anything that you absorb into | | | | have breast cancer... now there is something to think |
| your body you should question and worry about, | | | | about! So Dr. Oz gave some safe alternatives to lip |
| because this can cause all sorts of allergies and even | | | | gloss: |
| collagen breakdown. | | | | - Look for lip gloss with zinc oxide, because by |
| Dr. Paula Begoun says that expensive does not mean | | | | making a reflective surface on your lips, you get |
| better and natural does not mean anything either | | | | more sun on your lips. |
| (there are bad and good synthetic and natural | | | | - Use natural beeswax lip gloss. My favorite is The |
| ingredients). There are tons of ingredients that sound | | | | Body Shop Satsuma Shimmer Lip Balm, made from |
| like they would be great, but can actually make | | | | community trade beeswax from Zambia... and if you |
| wrinkles worse including fragrances, lavender essential | | | | want a bit of extra color, The Body Shop Lip Color is |
| oil, eucalyptus, and peppermint essential oil. Both Dr. | | | | also fabulous and made of their community trade |
| Begoun and Dr. Perry (as well as Dr. Oz of course) | | | | beeswax! |
| agree that if wrinkle creams claim that your wrinkles | | | | - Wear sunscreen under your lip gloss. |
| will go away immediately or that its the same as | | | | |