How Do We Know if Our Beauty Products are Safe?  We’ve been
having a lot of heated discussions here at Fashionista lately
about beauty products. The question that keeps coming up is
this: Do most women care whether or not the products they use
are environmentally friendly/organic/natural?  Allow me to be
devil’s advocate for a moment. There’s been a lot written about
what exactly “organic” and “natural” mean. There are different
organic standards in the US and Europe, which directly affects
beauty consumers. So many great products come from abroad, but
it’s often difficult to figure out where the ingredients are
sourced.  Then you have the loaded word “natural.” If you take a
glance into the history of beauty, women have used lead,
arsenic, mercury, and belladonna as beauty enhancers. All are
potentially deadly and all are natural products. On the flip
side, chemotherapies are toxic chemicals that cure cancer and
allow patients to live full lives, sometimes without any long-
term side effects at all (and some