INGREDIENTS WE DON'T USE

Whether it's natural skincare, clean products or your everyday skincare product from the shelf, everyone has a duty of care towards the ingredients they use in their skin care products.

There is a lot of concern about ingredients that are housed in cosmetics and in skincare ranges whether it's haircare, toothpaste, skincare, sunscreen, moisturisers, make-up and many more.

It is always good to look at your product label and to find out what each ingredient does and how it can affect you.

Here's a general list of what you wouldn't find in our products. We choose safer alternatives for our products and there are a lot that have not been listed.

1. Benzalkonium Chloride - found in deodorant, sunscreens, moisturisers

2. BHA & BHT (butylated hydroxyanisole and butylated hydroxytoluene)

3. Carbon black

4. Coal Tar - found in hair dyes, anti-dandruff shampoos

5. Diazolidinyl Urea

6. Imidazolidinyl Urea (German)

7. Quaternium-15

8. Bronopol

9. DMDM Hydantoin — releases formaldehyde

10. Diethanolamine (DEA)

11. EDTA (also known as Ethylenediaminetetraacetic Acid) - found in hair colour, moisturisers.

12. Glitter - microplastic

13. Homosalate - found in sunscreens

14. Hydroquinone - found in fragrances and skin lightening creams

15. Lead - found in lipstick, eye shadows, blushes, compact powders, shampoos and even body lotions.

16. MEA/DEA/TEA (known as Ethanolamines) - found in foundation, fragrances, sunscreens, mascara, hair dyes

17. Methylisothiazolinone and Methylchloroisothiazonlinone - found in shampoo, conditioner, body wash.

18. Octinoxate - found in sunscreens

19. Oxybenzone and Avobenzone - found in sunscreens, lotions, lip balms, cleansers, fragrance, baby products and moisturiser

20. Parabens - Methyl, Propyl, Isobtyl Butyl, Proply and Ethyl Paraben

21. Petrolatum/Mineral Oil

22. PFAS and PFCS - found in Sunscreen, hair products, shaving creams

23. Phenoxyethanol

24. Phthalates

25. Propylene Glycol

26. Resorcinol - found in hair colour, bleaching product

27. Siloxanes or Cyclical Silicones

28. SLES

29. SLS (Sodium Lauryl Sulfate)

30. Sodium Lauryl/Laureth Sulfate

31. Synthetic Colours

32. Talc

33. Teflon - found added in cosmetics to improve the texture of some products

34. Toluene - nail polish

35. Triclosan - found in mouthwash, shaving cream, toothpaste

36. Triclosan & Triclocarban

37. Triethanolamine (TEA)

Please feel free to look some helpful tips on Allergy.