Grace Naturals was started in order to give customers a place to confidently shop for personal care products that are truly pure, natural, and safe for you and your family. I care about the purity and safety of the products I personally use and have had a long running interest in the power of natural ingredients. Savvy consumers are increasingly taking notice of the ingredients used to manufacture the products they purchase. Surveys done by The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics show the average woman uses between 12 and 20 products daily thus being exposed to around 160 chemicals. It's mind boggling that in 2003 the European Union Cosmetics Directive banned 1,100 chemicals for use in cosmetics while the United States has only banned 11. That's an enormous disparity! What's even more disappointing is that many manufacturers market with misleading labels in order to pass their potentially dangerous chemical laden products off as natural. And, don't count on the government for protection in this area. Cosmetics have very little regulation in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration lacks the authority to regulate ingredients used in cosmetics marketed to consumers. There are no pre-market safety assessments as there are with the drug industry. It is startling, therefore we believe consumers should be in-the-know about the safety of personal care products and cosmetics. In the busy world we live in, many of us have little time to research products and ingredients. Grace Naturals has done the homework for you. All of the companies' products we carry have signed the Compact for Safe Cosmetics, an agreement made with the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics pledging to:
1. Comply with the EU Cosmetics Directive.
2. Disclose all ingredients.
3. Publish and regularly update product information in EWG's Skin Deep database.
4. Comply with ingredient prohibitions and restrictions under the Compact for Safe Cosmetics and substitute ingredients of concern with safer alternatives.
5. Substantiate the safety of all products and ingredients with publicly available data.
6. Participate in the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics.
We look at product ingredients as the foremost criteria in selecting brands for Grace Naturals to carry.
Shop with Grace Naturals, shop with confidence!
