"We do not feed our skin what we wouldn't eat ourselves," say proponents of organic cosmetics, among them a host of Hollywood starts

You are healthy and in harmony with nature, consuming only products grown in natural conditions. You are carefully watching what you eat to make sure you ingest as little chemicals as possible with your food. Are you as careful about chemicals in cosmetics? After all, this is equally as important. Today organic cosmetics represent an advanced and most dynamically developing trend in the beauty industry.

An average woman who uses cosmetics rubs up to 200 (!) chemicals into her skin on a daily basis. Research proves that blood carries 60% of them throughout the body. Scientists claim that cosmetics cannot be made fully natural because preservatives are needed to give them shelf life. Preservatives, which are synthetic substances by definition, have to form up to one half of a cosmetic product by volume.

We have proved them wrong! A little history for starters...

Cosmetics have always interested all people at all times. They represent an entire complex of substances for keeping the human body and spirit healthy! Earliest mentions of cosmetics occur in Egyptian manuscripts, Biblical stories, and the Koran. The Middle East — Ancient Egypt and Judea — are believed to be the birthplace of cosmetics. In this region full of mysteries and secrets, the art of decorating the face and body reached its pinnacle. The full (including magical) properties and secrets of Judaic cosmetics had been known only to the select few and kept in strict secrecy. Some things were really worth keeping secret: a special cream prolonged youth, while special makeup brought back energy and cheerfulness to the eyes and helped succeed in one's love life. Some combinations of flowers or paintings, fragrances and ointments cured illnesses and helped in winning good graces of the gods, thus bringing good fortune. It is no accident that testimonies of miraculous properties of cosmetics of Judea and eternally young beauties have captured the minds of generations of scientists.