I had intended to continue my previous post about organic clothing but I’m forgoing that…for a rant about false advertising!!!
So, I have annoying hair. It’s very dry and very fine, which is a difficult combination because it needs a lot of conditioner but it can’t be weighed down by said conditioner either. When you have a whole aisle of conventional conditioners to choose from it’s no problem finding one to suit my needs. The organic shampoo aisle, however, is much smaller. So, I tried them all (which still takes a while!) and I finally found one from Kiss My Face Organics that works, yay!
Actually, not so yay. I read the fine print on my “obsessively organic” conditioner today and found benzophenone 3 and stearalkonium chloride. After poring over various scientific studies, I haven’t found much to cheer about for either of these chemicals.
There are warnings against using benzophenone 3 in products that will be used by children under six after finding that the chemical is absorbed through the skin and not excreted from the body for three days. I don’t really want to know what benzophenone 3 is doing floating around in my body for those three days!!
Stearalkonium chloride didn’t seem to have a much rosier picture. There have been few studies on the substance but from those that have been done the conclusion seems to be that it is toxic.
The Kiss My Face web site states, “this product contains no animal ingredients, artificial colors, or unnecessary chemicals and was not tested on animals.” So, how exactly are benzophenone 3 and stearalkonium chloride necessary for an “obsessively organic” product?
So, is my conditioner really “obsessively organic” or are they just saying that to make a buck off of my organic obsession? Oh well, I guess I’m off to the drugstore with frizzy hair…and this time I’m reading the labels!!
