The big idea is that you should look at the ingredients on your favourite non organic lipstick, after shave or shampoo and compare this with a certified organic equivalent product. If on the non organic product you cannot pronounce the words, if there is a bewilderingly long list of synthetic chemicals, and if most of it looks decidedly unfamiliar then maybe you ought to apply some Common Sense and think about whether you should be feeding this concoction to your skin! You could also do a bit of research on each to check which of them may potentially be toxic. On the other hand looking at the certified organic product you may find far fewer ingredients which are mostly recognisable as plant extracts and natural and it feels that this could actually be good for you then maybe your intuition is right and maybe you ought to follow it! You can do the research here again as well to check if your intuition is correct. The difficulty with all of this is that common sense is sometimes not so common and the demand for conclusive proof can dull our natural powers of intuition! Many people just do not see that as well as thinking about what they eat and drink they should also concern themselves about what they feed to their Skin. Why then do people not see this?
To understand why people are slow to change behaviour on this you have to understand a bit about mindsets and resulting patterns of behaviour. Life has always been an ongoing battle between mindsets or fixed views, and new ideas. The flat earth believers held out for hundreds of years! Our thinking is driven by brain patterns - our beliefs, values, culture, assumptions, stereotypes, emotions and entrenched views. Brain patterns or mindsets are normally invisible but the behaviours they generate are very, very real. These mindset chains can be very weak to begin with but can soon be too strong to break. For perhaps 80% of the time we operate on automatic pilot with our unconscious mindsets running things. This was good for escaping quickly from dinosaurs for survival and it does help us make sense of the world and simplifies our decision making processes. However, it is perhaps less useful when we need to make more informed choices about today's complex life style and health options when maybe paying more and using less should be a new rule of thumb? Our mindset filters make us very selective about what we see and constrain our options and choices. We are not as open minded as we may believe. We all have blind spots. This is unfortunate, but not normally health threatening. For example you may not play a musical instrument because your school music teacher convinced you that you had no musical ability. You could retain this limiting belief for the rest of your life without challenging it. However it is much more worrying if you bury your head in the sand by trusting that all the skin lotions and potions in the market place must be okay, because someone in a white coat says so, or simply because they are, after all, on sale in your favourite retail outlet and the packaging is very eye catching!
It is possible to assume that all cosmetics are thoroughly tested to make sure they are not potentially harmful to humans, to believe that all manufacturers would never subject us to any unnecessary health risks, to feel safe that since our aftershave smells nice it could not possible harm us, to think that anything as attractive as your new lipstick could not possibly irritate your skin and mouth, to take the view that organic cosmetics are really not necessary or over the top and too expensive, to assume that what we put on our skin stays on our skin instead of being absorbed into the body, or to believe that what we wear next to our skins especially for babies has no impact on our skin and our body. Common sense and intuition however might well lead us to think otherwise if we gave them both a chance. Our skin is a living, breathing organ, the largest in the body. It is much more than just an outer covering since it is a major part of our defence against external injury. Nicotine and hormone patches have capitalised on the scientific principle that more than half of what we put on our skin is absorbed into our body. Synthetic chemicals in many skincare products do soak into the skin and since the skin and body can have difficulty processing these 'foreign' substances, which can accumulate in the tissues or cause an allergic skin reaction or worse. Making the choice for organic body care should therefore ensure greater compatibility with the most sensitive skin and also help to decrease the toxic load on anyone body. We need to consciously and continuously challenge mindsets to bring this big idea to the front of people minds rather than remaining at the back! If many people keep thinking as they do currently then they will continue to not see the benefits of Organic Skin Care products. Changing your mind on this can quite literally change your life and reduce risks to your health.
Evidence or the lack of it can be a stumbling block when asking people to challenge their choices here. Sometimes the lack of conclusive hard evidence is enough to override what common sense and intuition might want to tell you. The point is that there is lots of research which indicates that applying lots of chemicals to your skin can be risky but conclusive proof of the impact can be harder to come by. The question for everyone is whether they are prepared to take the risk and wait for another 10 years or more for the conclusive scientific statistically valid data to be produced and agreed by all the necessary government bodies and manufacturers who are as we know rather slow in making decisions without bureaucratic delays and obfuscation. It is your call, your skin, your health, and ultimately your risk and your responsibility! The big idea is to have a look at what comes in the bottle or tin or tube or spray or pot and then use your common sense and trust your intuition...! People normally change behaviour for one of two reasons they feel the heat or they see the light! In the case of organic skin care lets hope more people can be persuaded to see the light rather than wait until they feel the heat. Do not believe us just try the common sense and intuition tests for yourself!
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