Green Beauty Products - Yes to Carrots and Good Health
If I were to categorically count the number of makeup items splattered all over my bathroom counter top, lip products would win the race hands down. Lip glosses, lip balms, lip tints, lipsticks…somehow beauty products targeted for other facial parts never seem to give that instant boost of vitality that those for the lips give us. But ever since I’ ve tried to go green with my makeup, I’ve become most paranoid about what I put on my lips.
Can you imagine how much of the product we must be taking in when we eat, drink, lick our lips, kiss …just thinking about it gives me the creeps. So I went on a mission to find an organic lip product, that delivers and is not expensive, after all most of us just cannot stop with just one or two and so affordability is important.
Something that has been catching my eye recently is Yes to Carrots. They feature a set of Paraben free skin and hair products that are made of organic fruits, vegetables and Dead Sea Minerals. They are not tested on animals and are do not contain the dreaded Ps-Phenol, Petroleum, Phthalates and Parabens. In fact their lip balms which are USDA organic sealed were recently featured in the Oprah Magazine. According to dermatologist Amy Wechsler, MD, author of “The Mind-Beauty Connection: 9 Days to Reverse Stress Aging and Reveal More Youthful Beautiful Skin”, many of us develop an unhealthy addiction to lip products containing Phenols which remove our natural protection nudging us to constantly reapply the product. Parabens have long been associated with tumors and reproductive abnormalities, while phthalates have been linked to lung, kidney and liver damage.
Yes to Carrots have a suite of nominally priced lip balms, tints and glosses that can be found at Target, Walgreens, Ulta and Rite Aid. Also check out drugstore.com and amazon.com for some good deals. Depending on the store they retail anywhere from $2 to just under $7.
Not bad at all considering that you are paying for good health.
