The V Word
VENTURING INTO VEGAN BEAUTY
by Heather Mills
The V Word
It’s been 26 years since I first discovered the vegan lifestyle and what it means. So it’s interesting, but equally shocking, to find that so many people are still unaware of what is in the products they use on their skin – it’s our body’s biggest organ and yet we do not question the ingredients that make up our beauty routines. It’s become so common to simply accept things at face value (pun entirely intended) and not delve deeper, but if we put this in relation to our other organs, like our heart, lungs, kidneys or liver, it suddenly seems ludicrous – we are warned on medications of the risk to one’s health by ingestion, but we are not warned clearly on a label about the dangers of some of the nasties in make-up and skincare, such as parabens, petroleum and BHA. How are we allowed to put something on our skin without knowing exactly what that something is?