Clean personal care products took much longer to find than most other avenues of clean products. The beauty industry is severely lacking in regulations when in comes to questionable ingredients and thus things like heavy metals, endocrine disrupters, parabens, phthalates, hormone disrupters, carcinogens and a myriad of other chemicals are still present in many everyday products used by millions of people.

I since have also learned that most personal care products use up to 70% water as the base of their products. While water is not in itself bad, by using water in our personal care products means the need for preservatives to stabilize the water and ensure it doesn't grow bacteria or mold, among other things. Many products also use vegetable or petroleum oils as emulsifiers which are highly inflammatory.

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Waterless beauty is the future, and it's also now the present! Olive Tree People (OTP) has landed in Canada (and has been in the USA for 2 years). They are a waterless beauty brand that has been around for 22 years in Europe and instead of water as the base ingredient they use the elixir from the olive leaf called hydroxytyrosol, which is a powerful anti-inflammatory and immune building elixir. They also use arbequina olive oil from their olive groves as their emulsifier which also has amazing health benefits. The two combined are a powerhouse for your skin's health.