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?

Several years ago Susan Jeske was experiencing some severe health problems and skin problems. Unable to deal with them successfully she consulted a holistic doctor who advised her that the likely cause was chemical ingredients in the cosmetics and skin care products that she was using. She stopped using these products and within 2 weeks the health problems disappeared.

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 Susan Jeske left her job with the cosmetics company and now speaks around the country warning of the dangers of modern mainstream cosmetics and personal products such as skin care products and others.

Susan even put together a list of 12 toxic ingredients to look for on the label of any product that you intend to buy to put on your skin. If you see any of these ingredients don’t buy the product.

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.

Most of the chemical ingredients used by modern skin care and cosmetics companies are incredibly cheap and for this reason using them increases the profit margin on the products dramatically.

Sadly there are many excellent natural skin products and natural cosmetics containing ingredients known to be highly effective and perfectly safe to use however these ingredients are much more expensive than chemical alternatives and so are not used in mainstream skin care products and cosmetics.

But there are excellent high quality natural skin products as well as high quality natural cosmetics which are available right now and which are manufactured by small niche manufacturers who see an opportunity to capitalise on this problem by marketing their products to consumers who are aware of the problems with mainstream 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.

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