Jim, castor beans have a toxin that is REMOVED. You jumped on a bandwagon that has left town.

I make green products but don’t label them as green. I make herbal skin care. I tell people what is a chemical and what isn’t. I tell them why I use it. Most of my products do not have chemicals.

People tend to go overboard when learning something new, then find a balance after a bit. It IS daunting to read up on ingredients. It is for me too.

Kitty, there are a lot of products, I would say most of them, that contain chemicals and they feel SUPERB on the skin. The bottom line is what do you want to PUT on your skin? Are you just interested in the FEEL or do you care about your health?

It’s the size of the molecule that determines what can penetrate deeper in to the skin than most surface stuff.
Cyclomethicone and dimethicone are two nasty products with a small molecule size. So whatever they have in the products will be allowed to go deeper into your skin than some others.

I prefer to at least TRY to put stuff ON my skin that is healthy. Well, I do more than try. I use my products. If I am going to use some other company’s products, I just tell myself I’m going too and I don’t read the ingredient label. However I also don’t use a lot of it.

For instance, Japanese Cherry Blossom lotion from BBW. I LOVE that smell. BUT, I don’t use it after I’ve shaved my legs and I don’t apply much when I do. And it’s not the fragrance oil that’s so objectionable in quantity for me, it’s the awful ingredients they use in their products.

Which brings to mind fragrances. Essential oils are from the plant. Period. MANY companies are telling the public that peach is an essential oil. It is NOT. Or they say it’s a ‘natural essence’. As long as John Q Public listens and believes what she/he is told from ANY corporation, without investigating on their own and DEMANDING better ingredients, they will get what they’ve always got because big corporations don’t care about people, only the money.

Big corporations have jumped on the ‘natural’ bandwagon, using that term and others.
For me, I was herbal, when herbals weren’t cool.