Carrageenan.
I ran into an old friend, Jane, in the local health food store,
and was delighted to see her. “How are
you?” were my first words. This led to a
discussion of her granddaughter’s allergies, and how careful the whole family
is about putting chemicals in the body or on it.
One item she stressed the most:
“Don’t eat food with carrageenan in it”.
I googled ‘carrageenan risks’, as you might also want to do. This info put up red flags for me: “Carrageenan exposure clearly causes
inflammation.” Here’s a link to more
about that additive: http://www.cornucopia.org/2013/12/carrageenan-risks
One
day I found a skin care company online that was highly recommended, and ordered
a sample kit of their products. When I
looked at the ingredients, I saw they included carrageenan.
I
emailed the company and said “You were recommended to me, but I see you have
carrageenan in your lotions. Have you
considered leaving it out?”
The
answer came back. She basically said
yes, they are aware of the issues surrounding the safety of ingesting
carrageenan. But their lotion has big
molecules that sit on the skin and are not absorbed into the body.
That
sounded weird to me. If it didn’t
penetrate, then it would just float on top, and how could it get down to the
other layers of skin? The lotions in
their sample kit penetrated wonderfully.
So
not only does their product contain carrageenan, but I felt I was being
snookered by the answer that their lotion didn’t penetrate the skin!
So
look at the ingredients and use your own judgment (or muscle test the product).
