Look for this Label!
8/4/10 Latest “Organic Transitions” with Meria Heller & Alexis Baden-Mayer, Political Director of Organic Consumers. Whole Foods taking the lead in cleaning up body care aisle! Natural vs. organic; “Coming Clean Campaign”, cancer and bodycare; GE Foods, GE vaccines; National organic standards; Look for the USDA organic seal; Made with organics means 70% of the ingredients are organic; top 10 reasons to label GE Foods; only 26% of Americans are aware of eating GE foods; Coca Cola -GE; Papaya’s GE, 50% of sugars GE! Animals raised on GE feed, GE growth hormones; India, China & Europe require GE labels, why not us? DNA changes; not 1 single test done on GE foods for safety by U.S. govt; mothers milk? Creating allergen genes with GE; Generation One; Monsanto Generation; Cosmetics – 250 different chemicals; Kelloggs GE cereals; horizontal gene transfer; Kucinich bill #HR5577; radiating our food; GE salmon; avoid farmed salmon; biodiversity and more.
While I was listening to the interview, I went into my bathroom and started reading the labels on all my personal “beauty” products (that is when I COULD read the miniscule printing). I was astounded. Here I thought I was pretty “green,” but apparently not. One of the products even warned me to be careful, that the product could catch on fire….on FIRE? On my face???? Yikes!!! And some of the products that are touted as being so healthy for us (like Aveeno and Eucerin) are not so much. They contain that coco-proponol-something or other mentioned by Alexa AND petroleum. Even some Burt’s Bees products had petroleum in them. Everything went in the can to be taken to the poison-product dumpsite. I noticed that Hempz products seemed “green” and only had a few ingredients.
Per Alexis’ recommendation, I went to the health food store and bought Dr. Bronner’s “certified free trade” pure castille liquid soap. Besides water, it has hemp oil and maybe only five or six other ingredients (none of them Monsanto chemicals). I washed my hair with it this morning and let my hair air-dry. I was SHOCKED. I did not have to put any other products in my hair to be able to walk out the door and look fairly decent. I had full-on bounce and no frizzies. What a miracle!