Product Description

Who would expect that making a profit would be more important than people’s health and their lives? Yet, this is exactly the case in the cosmetics and personal care products industry. Cosmetics and toiletries are laden with toxic chemicals, many carcinogenic. Makeup, hair coloring products, baby powder, shaving cream, mouthwash and toothpaste are just a few of the products that contain cancer-causing ingredients. Even products that are supposed to be gentle and mild for babies often contain toxic, irritating chemicals.

Dying to Look Good tells you if the cosmetics and personal care products you’re buying contain dangerous ingredients. It reveals what manufacturers don’t want you to know about their products and shows you how to find the truth behind deceptive product packaging. You will learn how to confidently read labels so you know how safe your cosmetics and toiletries are.

This book classifies over 1300 cosmetic and personal care product ingredients according to safety, whether they may cause allergic reactions, whether they have been reviewed by the Cosmetic Ingredient Review Panel and if they are approved or recognized as safe by the FDA. It also lists over 750 cosmetic and personal care products that have been evaluated as "safe" and where you can buy them, with web addresses and phone numbers. In just seconds, you can find out if an ingredient in the product you’re buying is harmful and you can identify safer products for yourself and your family.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #209268 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-21
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 216 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780963563569
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
"A must-read for time-starved parents! This book takes very complex material and distills it down ..." -- John Kjenner, CPA

"A must-read for time-starved parents! This book takes very complex material and distills it down ..." --John Kjenner, CPA

"Great title and a great handbook ... There is no reason to continue to use unhealthy products!" -- Martha Webb

"I highly recommend this guide book to all those who want to know how to take better care of themselves." -- Joshua Leibow, BA in Psychobiological Medicine, UC Santa Cruz

"This book is a must read for people concerned with their health ..." -- Jack Samuels, President, Truth in Labeling Campaign

"This book is a must read for people concerned with their health ..." --Jack Samuels, President, Truth in Labeling Campaign

"This book is an indispensable guide that translates the chemical ‘gobbledy-gook’ on product labels into understandable language." -- Robert

"This is a good reference for most of us who don’t have time to read all the latest information..." -- Chuck ‘n Leslee Gervais

"This is an excellent overview of safe cosmetics and toiletries to use on the skin. ..." -- Peter Eckhart, M.D.

"This is an excellent overview of safe cosmetics and toiletries to use on the skin. ..." --Peter Eckhart, M.D.

"What a gift!... This little book is a compact reference guide to take shopping ...Well done!" -- Connie Adams, CMT, FCCI, Certified Aromatherapy Instructor

From the Author
Shopping for cosmetics and personal care products is hazardous to your health … if you’re not reading and interpreting every label on every package you buy. Virtually all cosmetics and personal care products contain chemical ingredients. If you buy your toiletries, even from a health food store, you still need to read labels more today than ever before!

Because of increasing consumer awareness, manufacturers are designing packages to make it look like ingredients inside the package are plant derived, natural and healthy. But if you read and interpret the ingredients on the label, you're likely to find that’s not the case.

Many ingredients added to cosmetics and personal care products are harmful. In fact, cosmetics and toiletries are the least regulated products on the market. As long as manufacturers don't use toxic substances that have been banned, they’re free to use whatever ingredients they want and market their products without testing them and without FDA approval.

The FDA can make suggestions or recommendations to manufacturers about cosmetic products or their ingredients, but manufacturers DO NOT have to comply. The FDA must first prove in a court of law that a product is harmful, improperly labeled, or violates the law if it wants to remove a cosmetic product from the market. According to John Bailey, Ph.D., director of the FDA’S Office of Cosmetics and Colors, "Consumers believe that 'if it's on the market, it can't hurt me,' and this belief is sometimes wrong."

Your health, your family’s health, the very quality of your lives is on the line here. You need to take action. The FDA is not going to protect you. Neither is anybody else. It’s up to you.

This new edition of DYING TO LOOK GOOD will not only help you identify the harmful ingredients in personal care products, but also help you choose healthy products. It gives you the resources to identify healthy products and where to buy them.

About the Author
The study of health and nutrition has been a passion for Dr. Christine Farlow since 1975. Before she ever earned the title of doctor, people were coming to her unsolicited and asking for advice about health and nutrition. It just seemed natural that the next step would be to become a doctor and make it her business to counsel patients in these areas.

Dr. Farlow is a Doctor of Chiropractic with a specialty in Nutrition. She has been counseling patients and teaching classes in health and nutrition since 1984, and researching ingredients in food, cosmetics and personal care products since 1991. Thousands of people have attained higher levels of health and well being under her guidance.

Her books evolved out of her teaching and her nutritional counseling. These were the tools she found that people needed most to get started toward eating and living healthfully and to make healthy eating and healthy living a lifetime habit.

Customer Reviews

FINALLY!!
Finally, a wonderful, comprehensive resource to help the average person, who wants to make the change to a healthier lifestyle! I've always felt overwhelmed, with so much conflicting information as to what's safe and what's not. I found out about this book, from the Weston A. Price website - another awesome resource for finding out the truth. The absolute best part of this book, for me (because, honestly, a lot of the "chemical" details are over my head) - are the lists, at the back, of specific products (in each category - hair, face, deoderants etc) that have been tested as absolutely safe. This was so helpful, for me... to have all the research and legwork done, and to be able to simply look up each category, and find out where to buy it. It allowed me to slowly and methodically eliminate my family's personal care products that were harmful and, confidently, replace them with safe ones. The website offers ongoing updates on newly added "Safe" products. This is an excellent gift.

Boring.....
I am very much into good health and buying healthy products, but this book could not get my attention long enough to find out if it is any good. I finally gave up.

Dr. Christine Farlow's books are the TICKET TO SAFETY in living!
Dr. Christine H. Farlow, D.C.
Ingredients Investigator
P.O. Box 462335
Escondido, CA 92046-2335
Telephone: (760)735-8101

Dear Dr. Farlow:

In order for people today to protect themselves from harmful ingredients, even walking through a so-called "Natural Foods" or health foods store is not enough.

"Mrs. Gooch's," in Los Angeles, was created by a woman who nearly died. Yes, Sandy Gooch, was fortunate to have a chemist-father, as the story goes, who discovered she was literally dying from the chemicals in a popular soda that many people drink. Often this soda is even recommended to assist with "upset stomach!" Such products are so commonplace and present similar dangers to ANYONE who, unthinkingly, just drinks/eats/wears what is out there because it is convenient, handy or close by.

After Mrs. Sandy Gooch's nearly lethal health challenge was reversed, she decided to create "Mrs. Gooch's" as a way to protect the consumer. It was possible to walk through the store and NOT read the ingredients, because so much care had gone in to protecting consumers. But when "Mrs. Gooch's" Stores were acquired, products began appearing on the shelves with ingredients that indicated it was NO LONGER POSSIBLE TO FEEL SAFE. Yes, products appeared that contained ingredients known to be harmful. Some naturopathic doctors even recommend that all so-called "healthy" oils, for example, are not so healthy and that it may be preferred to concentrate on specific oils that are better or healthier for us.

The point is that NO ONE IS SAFE, even in health food stores. It does not matter, it seems, where you shop. Even ingredients/products promoted as "healthy" or "safe" may not be so, may even contain allergens for some, and that is where your hard, dedicated work to protect consumers comes in:

· FOOD ADDITIVES: A Shopper's Guide To What's Safe & What's Not

· HEALTHY EATING: For Extremely Busy People Who Don't Have Time For It

· DYING TO LOOK GOOD: The Disturbing Truth About What's Really in Your Cosmetics, Toiletries and Personal Care Products

The three books you offer have become ESSENTIAL companions to shoppers everywhere. If people want to make informed decisions, they have to rely on experts like yourself who are trustworthy and who do enough investigating to produce recommendations that will, in fact, protect us from all the many dangers that lurk out there.

As we go about our daily lives, oftentimes NOT thinking about what's good to eat, what's good to clean with, what's good to use as cosmetics, toiletries and personal care products, we may even be using so-called "healthy" products with ingredients touted to be safe and found in health food stores that may, in fact, NOT be so healthy after all. So often, for example, it is possible to come across products that contain ingredients like chemical preservatives with the justification for their inclusion: "They protect against the buildup of harmful yeast" or "They are in very small quantities, so are not harmful," etc. What such products/ingredients contain are POTENTIALLY LETHAL INGREDIENTS TO WHICH ANYONE CAN HAVE AN ACUTE ALLERGIC REACTION OR DEVELOP A LONG-TERM SUBTLE DISEASE WHICH CAN, EVENTUALLY, BECOME LETHAL.

Do consumers want to protect themselves and those they care about? What information is it possible to rely upon? Do we want to walk through product aisles and "hope for the best?" Or, to we want to read books you offer that are so easy, simple and well-researched that, finally, we have a way to protect our best interests?

Yes, your books offer us the safety and reassurance that it is possible to walk through the aisles as protected consumers!

If we care enough about our families and friends and business associates - anyone with whom we may share foods/products with, then it becomes our responsibility to walk through the aisles of any store armed with the protection offered from the many, many hours and years of research to which you have dedicated your career.

Yes it may take some effort and education to protect us, but your books make it so much easier. What is needed now is a way to walk into ANY supermarket, even "natural" foods/products and "health" stores, so that informed decisions can be made. With your books, is possible to choose products that - despite some information being shared to suggest that the products/foods are okay - will protect us in the long run.

It is so true that "You are what you eat."

It is also true that the skin is the largest organ of the body and literally absorbs whatever is placed onto the surface.

Thus the stomach (eat) and the skin (body surface) both are conveyors of whatever ingredients placed onto or inside of our bodies. Even the water we wash with is not something we think about, but it is possible to install filters/showers that will protect our bodies totally immersed by water every time we bathe!

Your books will protect any consumer who does not want to risk the ill health challenges and the eventual dangers that can lead to grave disease(s) and even death!

It is hard to think of anything more important! Do we want to live symptom-free? Do we want to avoid illness? Do we want to "Improve Health Maintenance?"

Everyone touts education as a "ticket to success." Dr. Christine Farlow's books are the TICKET TO SAFETY in living!