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Concerns about toxic ingredients are not limited to personal care or body care type products. Toxicity problems can involve a wide variety of products that people use on a regular basis.The following article from Everyday Health by Aly Cohen, MD, FACR, provides a good reminder about some of the things that you should try to avoid. Continue reading

The Hawaiian state government recently passed a bill that would ban two sunscreen chemicals, specifically oxybenzone and octinoxate. These two organic chemicals are very commonly used in sunscreen products. The reason for the ban is explained well by Continue reading

Recently it has become trendy in the personal care industry to tout products that contain “plant stem cells” which are claimed to confer miracle benefits. This is mostly fraudulent advertising in both claims and composition, and with this article I will explain exactly why. Continue reading

  To some people this may seem like an unusual question to ask. But I think it is one of the most pertinent questions a person can ask today. Let's dig into some reasons why you may want to consider this question. Continue reading

One of the popular trends in skin care today is sugar-containing skin scrubs, and we get asked about them regularly. However there are some good reasons why you may want to reconsider the use of such products. Continue reading

Editor's Note: This republished article supports our position that the incidence of adverse reactions to personal care products in the US is much higher than is generally recognized. We at Nature's Complement tend to prefer education and market-based solutions over heavy handed regulation to solve problems like this, since such regulations tend to have unintended consequences that disadvantage both consumers and small business producers alike. However, with the failure of competence and/or ethics of many companies in the personal care industry, more Continue reading