Beautiful Organically Infused Make-up !

We continue to add beautiful colors and more options to our organically infused make-up.  We now have organically infused full spectrum sunscreen liquid foundation in 5 colors for fair to medium complexions in cool, neutral and warm undertones! 

Coming Soon - New beautiful eye & lip pencil colors!   We have a new line of moisturizing lipsticks!

New concealers in neutral skin tone, yellow, & pink/peach. 

Pink/Peach Concealer is used to normalize yellow-colored imperfections such as sallow complexions and yellow bruises. It can also help conceal dark spots on bronze and olive skin tones.  COMING SOON!

Yellow Concealer is perfect for hiding those dark areas around the eye prior to applying your new mineral make-up.  Used to conceal bluish bruises, under-eye circles and mild red tones on the face.

Neutral Flesh Toned Concealer covers that slight imperfections without having to wear foundation by simply dabbing this skin toned concealer on with a camouflage brush or a clean fingertip and feather the edges.  Also used to cover areas of hyperpigmentation prior to applying foundation. 

Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals

Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals 2012

State of the science of endocrine disrupting chemicals 2012 / edited by Åke Bergman, Jerrold J. Heindel, Susan Jobling, Karen A. Kidd and R. Thomas Zoeller.

Three strands of evidence fuel concerns over endocrine disruptors:

1.     The high incidence and the increasing trends of many endocrine-related disorders in humans

2.     Observations of endocrine-related effects in wildlife populations

3.      The identification of chemicals with endocrine disrupting properties linked to disease outcomes in laboratory studies.

Many endocrine-related diseases and disorders are on the rise.  Large proportions (up to 40%) of young men in some countries have low semen quality, which reduces their ability to father children.

The incidence of genital malformations, such as non-descending testes (cryptorchidisms) and penile

malformations (hypospadias), in baby boys has increased over time or levelled off at unfavourably  high rates.

The incidence of adverse pregnancy outcomes, such as preterm birth and low birth weight, has increased in many countries.

Neurobehavioural disorders associated with thyroid disruption affect a high proportion of children in some countries and have increased over past decades.

Global rates of endocrine-related cancers (breast, endometrial, ovarian, prostate, testicular and thyroid) have been increasing over the past 40–50 years.
 

There is a trend towards earlier onset of breast development in young girls in all countries where this has been studied. This is a risk factor for breast cancer. 

The prevalence of obesity and type 2 diabetes has dramatically increased worldwide over the last 40

years. WHO estimates that 1.5 billion adults worldwide are overweight or obese and that the number with type 2 diabetes increased from 153 million to 347 million between 1980 and 2008.

Close to 800 chemicals are known or suspected to be capable of interfering with hormone receptors, hormone synthesis or hormone conversion. However, only a small fraction of these chemicals have been investigated in tests capable of identifying overt endocrine effects in intact organisms.

The vast majority of chemicals in current commercial use have not been tested at all.  This lack of data introduces significant uncertainties about the true extent of risks from chemicals that potentially could disrupt the endocrine system.

Human and wildlife populations all over the world are exposed to EDCs.

There is global transport of many known and potential EDCs through natural processes as well as through commerce, leading to worldwide exposure.  Unlike 10 years ago, we now know that humans and wildlife are exposed to far more EDCs than just those that are persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

Levels of some newer POPs in humans and wildlife are still increasing, and there is also exposure to less persistent and less bioaccumulative, but ubiquitous, chemicals.  

 

New sources of human exposure to EDCs and potential EDCs, in addition to food and drinking water,

have been identified.

Children can have higher exposures to chemicals compared with adults—for example, through their hand-to-mouth activity and higher metabolic rate.  The speed with which the increases in disease incidence have occurred in recent decades rules out genetic factors as the sole plausible explanation. Environmental and other non-genetic factors, including nutrition, age of mother, viral diseases and chemical exposures, are also at play, but are difficult to identify. Despite these difficulties, some associations have become apparent: 

Non-descended testes in young boys are linked with exposure to diethylstilbestrol (DES) and

polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and with occupational pesticide exposure during pregnancy. Recent evidence also shows links with the painkiller paracetamol. However, there is little to suggest that polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) or dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE) and dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) are associated with cryptorchidism. 

 

High exposures to polychlorinated dioxins and certain PCBs (in women who lack some detoxifying enzymes) are risk factors in breast cancer. Although exposure to natural and synthetic estrogens is

associated with breast cancer, similar evidence linking estrogenic environmental chemicals with the disease is not available.  

 

Prostate cancer risks are related to occupational exposures to pesticides (of an unidentified nature), to some PCBs and to arsenic. Cadmium exposure has been linked with prostate cancer in some, but not all, epidemiological studies, although the associations are weak.

 

Comment from JES Organics: It is so important to be an educated consumer, read labels, use trusted natural products, avoid endocrine disrupting chemicals as much as possible.  Protect yourself and your family from the harmful effects of toxic chemicals.