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Why only organic ingredients?
Your skin is the largest organ of your body, and it acts as a barrier to the daily toxins of the world. When you slather toxic ingredients onto your skin, you’re interrupting your skin’s ability to renew itself and defend from environmental damage. The wrong ingredients on your skin do your body a huge disservice.
Natural Ingredients Are Often Gentler
Typical skin care products use fillers that aren’t necessary. These can irritate the skin or hair, and may cause damage over the long term. Many natural products, on the other hand, are gentler over time because they avoid those unnecessary fillers. You end up with healthier skin in the end.
Sensitive Skin Responds Better to Natural Ingredients
If you have sensitive skin, you may face unpleasant, painful, or itchy results when you use products containing chemicals. Natural ingredients tend to be less abrasive and more soothing.
A More Beautiful (and Safe) Scent.
Conventional products rely on chemically-produced scents to cover up the chemical smells of the ingredients in the product. Some people are actually too sensitive to the many chemical smells. Natural products, instead, smell like the ingredients that are used to create them.
Less Concern Over Side Effects.
Conventionally-produced health and beauty products use parabens as a preservative. These synthetic parabens mimic your body’s natural hormones, and there simply isn’t enough research to show if this is safe or not. Natural products, on the other hand, use natural preservatives that don’t cause concern about harming your body.
Environmentally Friendly.
Conventional products not only add chemicals to your skin and body, but they also contribute to a negative environmental impact as the chemicals from the products are released into the air, water, and more.
Why cold pressed oils?
The Cold-Press Process
Extracting oil through cold-pressing involves crushing the seed or nut and forcing out the oil. Presses come in a range of sizes, from small sizes for home use to huge commercial presses. The seeds are dropped inside a cylinder that contains a rotating screw. This screw grinds and crushes the seeds until the oil is extracted. Small holes in the bottom of the cylinder allow the oil to escape into a collection container. Although some heat is generated through friction as the screw breaks down the seeds, it's usually not enough heat to damage the oil.
The Hot-Press Process
Some presses use heat to advance the oil extraction process. Electric heaters can be attached to the press cylinder; as the seeds inside the cylinder heat up, they become softer and break down more easily. Although this method tends to generate higher quantities of oil, the heat can reduce the flavour, aroma and nutritional content of the oil.
Cold-Pressed Oil and Health
You may ingest some types of oils specifically for their health benefits, including evening primrose oil, believed to contain powerful free-radical-fighting antioxidants. However, a 2004 study conducted at London's Imperial College School of Medicine discovered that the beneficial antioxidants were only found in trace amounts in most commercially offered formulas. When scientists tested a commercially available cold-pressed formula, they found greater quantities of antioxidants, leading them to pronounce the cold-pressed evening primrose oil superior in terms of potential health benefits.
Handmade
1. Probably the most important reason is that the product is, well, handmade! That by itself translates to quality, and a whole lot of love!
2. Handmade products are more than just a product and uniqueness, and that shows.
3. Giving a handmade product instead of mass-produced is more like writing a letter to someone instead of an email.
4. Giving a handmade product is truly the essence of gift-giving. When you give a friend, or loved one a gift, you are really saying “I care about you.”
5. It wasn’t mass-produced in some factory where several people attached one part, to create the whole product, over and over and over again.
8. Environmentally friendly: it is common to use recycled materials when making handmade items.
Why Fragrance free in stead of unscented?
In Planet B we work hard to bring the best to your skin.
We believe in natural.
The important difference between "fragrance free" and "unscented":
Labels can be confusing. After all, there are “Unscented” products and “Fragrance Free” products. It’s important to differentiate between the two because there are differences, including safety.
Fragrance free is what you are looking for.
This means that no fragrances (artificial or otherwise) have been added to the product (or should mean that, watch for tougher regulations monitoring that coming). As we know, artificial fragrances are the #1 irritant on skin and one of the most potentially harmful ingredients we can encounter - because they contain phthalates -- see more information below.
They are linked to many health issues, from allergies and asthma to cancer. Simply put, these fragrances are making people sick. In its truest definition, "fragrance free," means you should not have to worry about those nasty synthetics. Nothing should be added to remove the natural scents from the butters, oils, and other natural ingredients in the products. In other words, you may smell some of the product’s ingredients such as the olive oil or shea butter.
Did you know?
Honestly, it can be confusing. Many people assume that unscented and fragrance free are interchangeable terms. This is wrong, however.
Unscented does not mean fragrance free. In fact, if you smell absolutely nothing in your skin care or beauty products, it may be more harmful than you believed. Why? It sounds silly, but "unscented" products typically have added fragrance agents used to mask the other smells.
Masking fragrances are bad.
Masking fragrances are usually composed of toxic phthalates.
Phthalates are an industrial plasticizing agent. This is found in artificial fragrance, and frequently used in "unscented" and some poorly labeled "fragrance free" products. Here is what is on the Cosmetics Database page about phthalates: “More than two decades ago, scientists began building a body of work indicating that phthalates are reproductive and developmental toxicants in laboratory animals, particularly in males. Early studies focused on phthalates’ ability to cause testicular atrophy (e.g., Gray and Buttersworth 1980). New studies are confirming these findings in humans (Swan et al. 2005, Main et al. 2005).”
Phthalates have been linked from everything to testicular cancer to liver cancer, but they are still in almost all synthetic fragrances, including masking agents which cause a product’s other natural scents to disappear.
Allergies and asthma still remain the biggest side effect of artificial fragrance and studies reveal that women are even more susceptible to these side effects. The problem becomes compounded when one exhibits the side effects such as redness and irritation and attempt to treat these with more lotions and creams. Since so many of these products have fragrance in them, they are rubbing on more of what is actually causing the problem in the first place.
This type of terminology is important to understand because someone who is allergic to lavender, for example, can still be allergic to a product in which the smell is masked, but they may not realize that the allergen is present because of the unscented designation.. In general, fragrances are added to make a consumer product more appealing, or in some cases, to trigger a physiological reaction. Fragrances can be categorized as “essential oils,” as “natural” or as “synthetic.” Essential oils are complex mixtures that are isolated from plant sources. Natural fragrance molecules are single molecular entities derived from a natural source. For example geraniol, extracted from roses would be a natural fragrance. But geraniol synthesized in the lab would be a synthetic fragrance even though it is exactly the same substance. Of course you can also have fragrances that are synthetic molecules not found in nature at all.
In Planet B we are committed to offering Fragrance Free options in all of our products. To make it easy, we have a complete collection of FRAGRANCE FREE items for you to shop from.