Design A Thought says…While I am a lover of these “chem free” products I love them because (I must stress some of them! you have to carefully look at the ingredients list!) they are using the ingredients grown from our good earth not cheaply mass produced in a lab so some company can reep the profits. I found that through some careful research, many of my products contained harmful chemicals which could be substituted with a natural one. But there goes profit, the cheaper the product the more of us hard up people with loads of bills are going to buy them. Not all of us have the knowledge to know what goes into our beauty products but it would be great to hit all of these companies on the head, I have noticed that the companies who, in detail, place their ingredients list openly, for example my old A’kin lavender shampoo give their customers the knowledge.

This type of ingredients list makes me feel happy because I know exactly whats in the bottle, some of these chemical names I cannot even begin to try to pronounce. In my personal opinion I believe that products should state what percentage of its ingredients are botanically sourced. This puts the power to the consumer. Botanically sourced! Thats it.

The Beauty Brains respond:

Here is the list of ingredients that Design A Thought referenced in her question:

A’kin Lavender Shampoo Ingredients

aqua (purified Australian water*) *BP 2007 standard

citric acid (botanical source)

cocamidopropyl hydroxysultaine (from coconut)

disodium cocoamphodiacetate (from coconut)

glycerin (botanical source)

glyceryl laurate (botanical source)

lauryl glucoside (from coconut, palm & glucose)

sodium citrate (botanical source)

sodium cocoyl glutamate (from coconut & sugar cane)

sodium gluconate (from GMO free corn)

sodium hydroxymethylglycinate

sodium lauroyl sarcosinate (from palm)

sodium lauryl sulfoacetate (from palm)

sorbitol (from GMO free maize)

pelargonium graveolens (geranium) flower oil

rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary) leaf oil

elettaria cardamomum seed oil

lavandula angustifolia (lavender) oil (certified organic)

citrus aurantium amara (bitter orange) leaf oil (petitgrain)

pogostemon cablin oil

You’ve been greenwashed!

The truth is that there is nothing natural about Cocamidopropyl Hydroxysultaine. The only way you can produce it is to create it in a lab!

The same is true of the following:

glyceryl laurate

lauryl glucoside

sodium citrate

sodium cocoyl glutamate

sodium gluconate

sodium hydroxymethylglycinate

sodium lauroyl sarcosinate

sodium lauryl sulfoacetate

You are falling for what we call in the business “greenwashing”. Every one of these chemicals is synthetically produced in a lab. The starting materials are irrelevant. In fact, these are the same starting materials that the Big Corporations use, they just don’t put the parenthetical information on the label. Which, incidentally, in the United States is illegal.