Know Your Ingredients

Yesterday was an amazing day. We had a speaker from Eminence Organics (Warning: their website is crappy, but linking you to it is the responsible thing to do) and she spent over four hours explaining this line's philosophy and sharing product knowledge. Eminence began in Hungary and they use all organic and natural ingredients. No parabens or harsh chemicals. The ingredients are so natural that you can even eat their products (if you are really hungry). The best part is, they boast results. Results AND organic ingredients? Could this be true? I'm not sure yet, but I'm looking into it because this is the most excited I've ever been about a product line to date. I cook with as many organic ingredients as possible. I scrub my sinks and showers with plant based cleaners. Why wouldn't I want to wash my face with natural ingredients? Well, I've always been told that these "natural" products don't produce the results we want. Eminence is saying you can have it both ways. I purchased a couple of products (including a physical sunscreen) and will see how I like those. Updates to come.

The speaker's number one piece of advice was to "know your ingredients." It gives you power. Understanding the ingredients in products will help me to decipher the effective ingredients from the fillers. And that makes sense to me.

If you have a product you want me to research, please send me the name of it and I'll make it this week's exercise. Many companies print the ingredients on the back of their box, so what do you do when you get home and remove the product from it's packaging? You toss the box. You have no idea what the ingredients are unless you can find them online. If you have the ingredients, send them my way. If not, just give me the name of the product and I'll see if I can find out the ingredients on my own.

If no one e-mails me, I'll know I'm typing to the cyberspace gods. If you have 5 minutes, please respond and give me a homework assignment. I can't believe I'm actually asking for homework, but I really want to get better at knowing my ingredients.