My friend was complaining to me this morning about her broken shower. It has been out of action for the past three weeks, which has meant she’s had to wash her hair in the bath.

She confided it wasn’t good for women to do that and she was now suffering the consequences.  She said she’d spoken to other women who’d said the same thing.The problem was that sitting in water containing the chemicals only normally applied briefly to her head were having a very painful and annoying result on a different part of her anatomy, if you get my meaning.

She asked if I ever suffered the same problem.  I don’t, at least not anymore, and it’s not because I don’t wash my hair in the bath because I do.  The reason I am okay is because I use certified organic skincare and personal care products, which are absolutely free of harmful synthetic toxic chemicals. I can actually read ALL the ingredients on the label and as they come from a food source know exactly what they are.

It wasn’t always so, but circumstances in my life have made me realise you can’t take everything at face value and need to question all sorts of things.  The fact that items appear on our supermarket shelves does not make them safe, and if consumers were to read the back of their skincare and personal care items in the same way they do their food items, they would realise how many toxic chemicals they are actually putting on their body.

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Having suffered from mercury poisoning because of my dental amalgams I now have a keen interest in non-toxic skincare, and as far as possible I use organic products. 

One thing I am often asked is what is the difference between “non-toxic” and “organic”. 

The dictionary definition of “toxic” is poisonous so “non-toxic” simply means a product is not poisonous.  However, the dictionary definition for “organic” can be defined in two distinct ways. 

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