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If you’ve heard of Susan Jeske you would know that she was crowned Ms America in’97. Since then she has spent over 20 years as a beauty consultant working for a major cosmetics company. But now she spends her time on speaking engagements warning us of the dangers of personal products such as cosmetics and skin care products in promoting the benefits of natural skin products and natural cosmetics. What happened to Susan?

A few years ago Susan had some severe skin and health problems. She was unable to deal with them successfully and so consulted a holistic doctor. His advice was that there was a good likelihood that her health and skin problems were caused by dangerous chemical ingredients in cosmetics and skin care products. He told her to stop using them and she did so, and within 2 weeks her skin and health problems were gone. So she spent some time researching dangerous ingredients in skin care products and cosmetics and was horrified by her discoveries.

It must have come as a shock to someone who had spent a good deal of her life promoting cosmetics and modern beauty products to discover that so many of these products were laced with chemical ingredients, many of which are banned in Europe, some of which are known to cause cancer, and some of which were causing her own health problems. But Susan spent some time researching this and was horrified by what she found.

As a result of her researches Susan left the cosmetics company. Now she spends her time touring the country warning consumers about the risks of toxic chemical ingredients in personal and beauty products such as cosmetics and skin care products.

She has even compiled a list of the 12 most toxic ingredients that you should never find listed on the label of any product you intend to apply to your skin.

Susan is not alone. There are entire organisations set up to alert consumers of the risks of modern skin care products and cosmetics. For some time I have written about this on my website can and warn about the risks of personal products and offer consumers some alternatives to buying safe natural alternatives. The FDA isn’t required to satisfy itself about the safety of any chemical ingredients used in products and doesn’t do so, and for this reason this problem continues to get worse.

The main reason these chemical ingredients are used is because they are incredibly cheap and by reducing the cost of the ingredients in the products companies can increase their profit margins hugely.

And the sad fact is that there are outstanding natural ingredients used in natural skin products and natural cosmetics. These products are available now and use safe non-chemical ingredients which are very effective and which pose no health risks. However because these ingredients are more expensive than chemical alternatives they are not used in the mainstream products.

But they are used in some excellent high quality natural skin products manufactured by small niche manufacturers who recognize the opportunity to produce safe and effective skin care care products and cosmetics for consumers who understand the risks inherent in modern mainstream personal products.

If you’d like to find out more about Susan’s speaking tour you can visit her website.

And if you’re also interested in finding out more about the dangers of modern skin care products and cosmetics, and about the safe natural alternatives that are available if you know where to find them, then visit my website.