The truth about BODY SHOP

The truth about BODY SHOP

Are you ready to hear the truth about BODY SHOP?

“The Body Shop® believes that there is only one way to beautiful — Nature’s Way”

REALLY? let’s see how natural their way is…

Ingredients of their best seller : Vitamin E Moisture Day Cream

PEG 100 Stearate : Restriction concerns: Violation of industry recommendations – Restricted in cosmetics; use, concentration, or manufacturing restrictions – Not safe for use on injured or damaged skin –

Cancer concern: One or more animal studies show tumor formation at moderate doses – RTECS^®– Archives of Environmental Health 1963

Suspected to be an environmental toxin – Environment Canada Domestic Substance List

Triethanolamine: Human immune and respiratory toxicant – strong evidence – Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics

Classified as expected to be toxic or harmful – Environment Canada Domestic Substance List

Cancer concern: One or more in vitro tests on mammalian cells show positive mutation results – RTECS^®– Biologicheskii Zhurnal Armenii 1986

Endocrine disruption: One or more animal studies show endocrine system disruption at high doses – RTECS^®– National Technical Information Service 0455

Tocopheryl Acetate: Cancer concern – One or more in vitro tests on mammalian cells show positive mutation results – RTECS^®– Cancer Letters (Shannon, Ireland) 1984

Organ system toxicity: One or more animal studies show broad systemic effects at moderate doses (low dose studies may be unavailable for this ingredient) – RTECS^®– International Journal of Toxicology (Continous: Journal of the American College of Toxicology,Taylor & Francis Health Sciences) V 2002

METHYLPARABEN: Methylparaben is in the paraben family of preservatives used by the food, pharmaceutical, and personal care product industries. Parabens mimic estrogen and can act as potential hormone (endocrine) system disruptors.

PROPYLPARABEN: Propylparaben is in the paraben family of preservatives used by the food, pharmaceutical, and personal care product industries. Parabens mimic estrogen and can act as potential hormone (endocrine) system disruptors. Cancer: One or more in vitro tests on mammalian cells show positive mutation results, RTECS^®– Mutation Research 2008.*

Ethylparaben: Allergy / Immonotoxicity – Human skin toxicant – strong evidence – Schamberg, 1967;Soni, 2001

Cancer concern – One or more in vitro tests on mammalian cells show positive mutation results – RTECS^®– Eisei Shikenjo Hokoku 1978

Did I mention it was now owned by Loreal who is doing animal testing?!

So you wonder why they use those harmful chemicals?

There are several reasons:

• The shelve life of the product would be reduced to only a few months instead of years.
• They would lose a lot of money with unsold products in all their retails stores if they had to restock every few months.
• Using natural and organic quality product is expensive  so they only use very little of it to reduce the cost of the product and to have a better margin. Chemicals are cheap…
• Some of the chemicals  used produce lots of foam and consumers have been brainwashed thinking that whatever foam cleans.
• These chemicals have been used since the creation of said products, 1938, and have been “grandfathered” into use by the FDA, with no new laws introduced since then…

Conclusion:  read labels, inform yourself, be a smart consumer and start making your own beauty products at home!

Remember that your skin is the largest organ in the body; what you put on your skin  is absorbed directly into your bloodstream.