In my last post I mentioned the illusions of product labels and Marketplace has aired an episode that delves into this concept as it concerns organic and natural products, including those for babies.
when my second child was born I became conscious of the natural products out there and now that I have seen the Market place episode - Lousy Labels I can't help feel a little more confused and a little angry.
First I would like to define Organic and Natural. Even defining "Organic" is difficult. I looked Organic up using The Free Dictionary and some other sources and found that really the word organic is redefined for so many things.
Defining Natural is much like Organic as found in The Free Dictionary. It makes it easy then to make Organic and Natural to mean what ever you want.
I read some of the comments attached to the Marketplace episode and some comments were quite good. Uranium is an organic substance but we don't want to hold it in our hands in any form. Asbestos is also organic. You see where this is going. I don't want to be applying harmful things to my person just because I don't have time to read every label when I have two children in the store with me and a wall of choices but this is what we have to do.
One product that I did find when I was preparing for my youngest was Bare Organics and I have read the ingredients of these products. I haven't been disappointed in these products at all. There are other products like this available in Canada but not in any local stores. Thank goodness for the power of the internet.
I'll have to continue this later. we're off to town now.
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