"Don't rely on labels to give you the information you need. Trust only the ingredient list and your gut."
- Yancy Lael
Hello friends
When I moved to Australia from the UK, my skin suddenly became inflamed and itchy. It took a while to realise the childhood eczema I thought was behind me forever, had returned.
But why? I went through the common triggers… My diet was largely the same. I wasn’t under any particular stress. Surely it wasn’t the weather? True, I was using some different body care products - but I felt like I was pretty good at reading labels and making informed decisions about what I was putting on my body.
It turned out my label reading was not up to Australian standards.
It was while looking for a natural eczema treatment I discovered the very products that are allowed to claim to ‘treat’ skin issues such as eczema are not required to list all their ingredients. What? And that the very same ingredients can be named in four different ways on product labels. Well that makes it difficult to avoid ingredients you already know irritate your skin!
I was lucky enough to be given a tub of Green Foot Mama Organic Skin by a friend who had come across it at Byron Bay markets. I liked that it had a short list of recognisable all-natural ingredients, and that it quickly improved my eczema. It soon became my pregnancy and new baby go-to.
Fast forward a few years and I went from loyal Green Foot Mama customer to proud business owner. And I’ve spent the last couple of months putting together a series of blog posts on what I learned about ingredient labelling in Australia - so you can make informed decisions about the products you buy too.
Check it out on the blog.
Cheers,
Lisa.
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P.S. I have a small number of not-quite-perfect Organic Sun balms available at half price. If you’re interested in buying them, hit reply, let me know how many you’d like and I’ll send you a discount code.
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