Honest to Goodness

Hello Everyone,

This is the first post to a new blog for me, Honest Skincare. And I want to welcome you to this blog and tell you what you can expect in future.

This will be the place where you can come to find out the unadulterated truth about quality skincare for the whole family. I will be addressing the hidden ingredients in over the counter products - yes, even the expensive ones. I will expose to you the consequences of using some of the ingredients that are formulated into these skin care products and cosmetics.

My thought is that you as the fully informed consumer can make the best judgments for yourself. You can decided what risks you want to take; but you can only do that if you have the straight scoop.

This blog is all about empowering you, as the consumer, to feel the correctness of what you choose to use and how you spend your dollars on skin care and health products.

So let me tell you a little bit about myself. I have always grown something, and I have to always be growing something. I started out watching my Dad in our 1/4 acre garden in Ohio - yep, only yesterday. Hmmm

By the time I was in my teens, my Dad had stopped gardening, but I didn't. I kept growing things in the lush soils of Ohio and Pennsylvania. I never saw my Dad use a pesticide, so I never had the consciousness to even consider using them. And that became my way; the organic way. I have never used anything synthetic in my gardens, ever. I've seen my gardens eaten by almost every pest you can name. I've considered dynamite for gophers and moles. I've sat on my porch and tried to shoot squirrels, but only succeeded in shooting my picnic table. And finally I came to a peaceful truce with the critters. They get their portion and I get mine. There's enough for all of us.

I came to care about skin care products and what was in them when a good friend of mine developed a serious case of endometriosis from too much estrogen. Investigating we found that there were "phony" estrogens in the chemicals of almost all the skin care, hair care, lotions, potions, salves etc. That the body doesn't know what to do with them, and packs them into growths and tumors. This was confirmed by her doctors. So in coming blogs I'm going to inform you about these items and how to be sure you're not adding even more to your system.

It's not my intention to scare or frighten you, but it is my fullest intention that we become the smart, savvy and self-responsible consumers that we are. We know what's best for us, and despite what zillion dollar advertising campaigns say, we DO KNOW what's in our best interest and we can choose for ourselves. Here. Here.

So Welcome to the Honest Skincare Blog. You'll be shocked. You'll laugh. You'll weep. And you'll be a lot smarter for staying tuned.

Thanks for reading!

Kath