On my Soap Box...all week.

I'll be on my Soap Box all week...

I'll need more than a day

 to rant

and rave.

Here goes:

One simple purchase

from

my beloved Etsy,

opened up a whole can of worms...

I purchased 

handmade mineral makeup from a sweet Etsian...

which of course started the whole...

"Well, if she can do it so can I,"

thought process in my head...

Researching the ingredients led to

the discovery of this:

Campaign for Safe Cosmetics

Please don't go there,

 unless you want to be crazy...

In a nutshell...

(because my husband doesn't want to hear read the whole thing again,)

mineral makeup isn't so nice on your lungs...

the lipstick I've been using since I was fifteen

contains an ingredient which causes cancer (BHA)

and may also contain lead...

and

fragrances... in anything....can be neurotoxins among other nasty things.

Now, I know... I know...

take it with a grain of sand...er...salt...whatever.

(Later, I did read that the lead amounts that were found in lipsticks were mostly tiny.  I think one doctor put it that you would need to eat 7 tubes of lipstick per day for 70 years for the amount of lead to add up, but still.) 

And WHY can't I find the dang ingredient listing for lipsticks?

I tried finding the Maybelline ingredient list but you actually have to call to get it.  

Loreal has it listed on their website.... hmmm, not much help while in the store...

I don't know.

It just made me mad.

Before all of the above happened, I had read

this article about Whales...

Oh it's just so sad. 

But come-to-find out... we humans aren't much better off.

Stay tuned..

You'll find out why I haven't

"washed" my hair

in three weeks.

Fun!