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Naked Truth About Fragrance Oils

Naked Truth About Fragrance Oils

"Fragrance oil" Aka Synthetic fragrances

For those who like their soap and other body care products to smell like strawberries, fresh laundry or summer breezes, Mother Nature has nothing to offer, and the choice must fall on one of the many synthetic fragrances also called "fragrance oils" or just "fragrance".

Fragrance oils are synthetic compounds, obtained in the laboratory from fossil hydrocarbons (petroleum and natural gasses), which allow the cosmetic industry to replicate in their products any imaginable aroma ? from mom?s apple pie to cappuccino to new car.

Synthetic fragrances are usually diluted in a solvent (which can be alcohol, or DPG / di-propylene glycol, petroleum or mineral oils) and used in soap and other body care products with little or no consideration to the health of consumers or the earth.

Synthetic fragrances are, by far, the most common allergen found in commercial soap, cosmetics and body care products.

Because fragrance oils are derived from petrochemicals, synthetic fragrances do not come for renewable resources and are not environmentally friendly.

Synthetic pigments

Synthetic inorganic pigments are mineral compounds created through chemical manufacturing rather than by grinding and washing clays or minerals taken directly from the earth. This has opened up a plethora of colors to the painters but should be a concern to consumers when these colors are added to soap and other body care products.

Lone Star Naturlas advocates banning, and refused to use, artificial FD&C colors in any soap or other body care product. FD&C approved artificial colors are derived from coal-tar (petroleum) and are know to raise health and safety concerns. Do not be misled by their certification. It does not guarantee your safety. Approval for the food, drug and cosmetic (FD&C) use only requires producers to test for levels of lead and arsenic contamination. It offers no assurances the synthetic pigments are beneficial to your health or even non-carcinogenic. In fact many studies and researchers have presented uneasy conclusions about the safety of common FD&C colors. Some have been delisted when studies proved them to be carcinogenic. (Poisonous and Cancer causing.) Yet most companies routinely use these suspect

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