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Since I was around 8 years old, my mother has worked in beauty salons. For the last 25 years, she's worked in high-end NYC salons with reputations for being the best in the industry. The clientele includes celebrities, politicians and top business professionals. All and one coming to pamper, beautify and enjoy a spa-like atmosphere. I practically grew up in a beauty salon. As soon as I could, I would go work for and eventually manage a beauty salon myself. The smells of the salon were my home away from home.
Well, a few things have changed since those days. I am now a mother and have learned to look at the world with new eyes. The smells of the salon no longer signify luxury. In fact, my own mother can no longer smell that salon smell. Along with the losing her sense of smell, she also has skin cancer and thyroid issues. One of her best friends with whom she worked in the beauty salon for nearly 20 years, lost her battle to ovarian cancer in 2008.
These women are not alone in their health struggles. Women in the beauty industry are silently losing as the beauty industry is growing by double digits. Today, I still love taking a trip to the make-up aisle. The gentle click of opening a new tube of lipstick is enough to put a smile on my face. However, I’m now much more concerned about what goes into making my pretty lipstick pink than I am in finding that perfect shade. I think more and more about what that curl-enhancing shampoo is doing to my health. I also wonder what that aluminum in my deodorant is really doing to my lymph nodes besides making just making my armpits dry and scented.
Natural beauty is about taking care of our bodies, our spirit and our planet. This sounds like a simple concept. However, it is in direct opposition of a multi-billion per year, non-FDA regulated industry that creates products in a lab using chemicals that we were never meant to be exposed to. This means that it is up to you and me to make sure that the products we buy are non-toxic.
Where to go for organic beauty products in Seattle? Here are a few go to spots to check out a range of organic products to get green and gorgeous...naturally.
Lush Cosmetics
Whole Foods
Pharmica
Visit me at theEcoDiva.blogspot.com for the real organic beauty deal as well as daily reviews and interviews of the latest organic and natural products available today.
For syndication or reprinting of this article, please contact Elena Lipson - theEcoDiva@gmail.com.
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