I was in the health food store once asking for a pure
lotion. They had five shelves full of products and the manager only brought
me one bottle: Pure Life Soap Company’s Coconut and Vanilla body lotion. Free
of parabens, alcohol, and dyes, this product contains, water, sunflower oil,
safflower seed oil, coconut oil, vegetable glycerin, aloe extract, comfrey
extract. This product also contains calcium gluconate, a form of calcium.
Now just to show you the complexity involved in finding a pure product, this lotion also contains glucono delta lactone, a vegetable product typically
derived from corn. So when I hear corn, my GMO radar goes up. Is it all right to put
GMOs on our skin but not eat them? (I need to look into this further. If the corn is not GMO, no worries at all). Next we
have sodium benzoate which seems to me is in (has always been in) everything.
The EWG gives that a low-risk rating, but there is some concern it may cause organ
toxicity.
Of course, the purest thing you can put on your skin is
anything that comes directly from nature, such as honey, or sugar and butter (yum: a great body
scrub), olive oil or any other kind of natural oil. While these do wonders for
your skin and your pocketbook, and are undoubtedly healthy, they tend to clog
the pipes rather quickly and make it so that you need to clean the bathtub
often, if not every time you bathe or shower. We love lotions precisely because they are not so oily. Onward and upwards in the
quest for a truly, completely pure body lotion.
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