Comments on Stephanie's review of Jason Naturals
Description: Provides pure, natural, organic skin, hair and bodycare products.
The organic label is meaningless...
...if there are toxins in the organic products we use or eat. A recent article (see this link: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-natural14mar14,0,1670638.story?track=rss) on the Organic Consumer Association's tests of several popular 'green' products reveals that they have a known carcinogen, 1,4-dioxane. Almost 50% of the soaps tested positive for this byproduct of the manufacturing process. I have used some of these brands and this is very alarming, however I've read responses to this story, where many think the USDA Organic label is the only way to be sure our products are safe. This label is only as good as our government, which has cut deals, allowed exemptions and basically watered down the validity of this label. Read more about it here: (http://www.9starki.com/usda.htm). I don't think we should take any of this for granted. As consumers we should take charge and research the companies we are supporting. It's gets more interesting when you realize which corporations own the smaller organic labels, here is a chart (http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/features/009/009buyingorganic.html). But I digress, the good news is that several popular labels passed this dioxane test, bravo to them! And last but not least, this reminds me of Dr. Bronner's soaps which are the 'real' soaps and not detergents. Maybe if these companies only sold real soap and not detergent we wouldn't have any dioxane to worry about.
PS- if you check the cosmetic safety database Jason's soaps all get a 5 - I now try to buy only 0-1's if I can find them, the least toxic of all.
Stephanie's keywords: soap, organic, organic label, USDA, toxin, chemical, test, dioxane, detergent
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