Mineral oil is good for you, I repeat...

Filed in archive Beauty on December 10, 2006

Once again I must hail to the most delightful beauty myth busters out there, the Beauty Brains. They have single-handedly succeeded in crushing the mineral oil scare that has been around for ages.

In part 1 of their Mineral Oil Myth bust they successfully show you that mineral oils do not cause cancer, clog your pores or whatever other silly story you bought into. The Brains say:

"Mineral oil is NOT bad for you or your skin. It is one of the best ingredients available in skin lotions and moisturizers. It is also 100% natural taken directly out of our dear Mother Earth."

But why the freak all the commotion for then, you might be asking? Because evil little producers wanted to make you believe their products are better than those of the big companies, explain the Brains in part 2.

While small, hand made product lines might sometimes be good, don't buy into their stories just because they say so. I can't think of one cream worthwhile made of 100% pure natural ingredients. And of course they have to put in chemical ingredients in too, or the product would fall apart. Like my college professor used to say: you can kill yourself walking through the woods to find some herb you heard cured cough or you can simply take a pill and forget about it.

I don't know about you, but I'm slowly getting fed up with all that natural is better things. Can we accept the fact that years and years of hard work in laboratories might have provided better solutions than smearing an egg yolk onto your hair?