Dear Friends and Family -

As you all know I am always reading and researching ways to improve my organic skin care line to provide the best usage for our skin. Long ago we realized that certian perfumes, lotions and even soaps bothered my mom who is a migraine sufferer. Not completely sure what was actually causing them to trigger headaches for her and sneezing and itching for me and other people, I kind of felt like alot of fragrances got the bum-wrap because they smell nice but they caused problems!

Most of the synthetic fragrance oils I use in my organics have not bothered my mom or myself at all. She uses everything I make and hasn't had any negative reactions to the fragrances or ingredients. Is this because it's all naturally made products? Well, to a degree yes, but there is still that small percentage of synthetic fragrance I use to make my organic products smell nice. People love fragrance and are more likely to use something that smells good over something with no fragrance at all. Nicely scented products makes bathing and skin care alot more fun.

I did some reading on these products that give mom a headache and make me sneeze and itch and they all have a common factor, an ingredient called phthalates.

After going through all of my fragrances from my supplier they list which ones contain phthalates and which ones do not. Out of the 100's of FO's they offer, I have only found two that contain phthalates and they list it clearly. They have the same goal I do, to provide nice smelling skin care products with natural and organic ingredients and skin and allergy safe synthetics! So far, all of the fragrances I use are phthalate - free, which explains why even the strongest smelling products I've made have not given mom a headache, made me sneeze and itch and are a joy to use.

So what are these evil little phthalates that are floating around in manufatctured skin care? Read this article so you know what is in alot of perfumes and lotions, and what's NOT in my organic skin care. Once you read this article it will make you rethink what you're putting on your body. Remember our skin is our largest most absorbant organ and everything it comes in contact with, it will absorb like a sponge, and there are just somethings you do not want floating around your body, soaking into your skin or rubbing off on other people!

http://www.checnet.org/HealtheHouse/education/articles-detail.asp?Main_ID=509

Love,
Rachel
Soaps 'N Suds
Hobbs, New Mexico

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