My Labor Of Love Receives Recognition

I sit at my desk this morning feeling overwhelming gratitude as I ponder my next article for the Skin Care Guide.  As many have come to know me over the past several years, probably realize how much I truly enjoy writing, and I get to use my Blog as a place I can be myself and share my two cents on many issues.

Some issues I like to write about, interjecting facts with humor, or just to simply create a fun piece, and then there are some I don’t like to deal with!  Life is not always rosy and can prove to be challenging, even for me.  But I trudge through, working even on the more difficult stories that may put a knot in my gut, keeping it real, knowing that I may not have everyone concurring with my ideals.  In rare instances, I unwittingly create controversy.  Regardless, it has always been about keeping my readers’ best interests at heart which keeps me motivated to write those in depth articles.

After all I don’t do it to just to do it or to have something to do out of boredom, but because it is a true labor of love…..and I do mean labor.  Sometimes taking me weeks or months to bring a single article to fruition depending on the research involved.  I have always been about debunking myths in my industry, including over inflated claims on many products sold on the market today and conveying those findings to my readers.

It is this dedication I have practiced which has others in my industry taking notice and appreciating my candor and stance against those that want to sell by perpetuating fear!

Last week I was invited to join an expert panel of industry insiders from the U.S. and the U.K. involved in manufacturing and research and development which in large part are made up of scientists, herbalists, aromatherapists and chemists.  It seems they too have enjoyed my articles based on sound science through the dissemination of the facts without scaremongering, instead of recycling old fallacies that hover on the internet for ad infinitum which most of, I might add, is mainly for marketing purposes to sell products.

I have had the opportunity to share many ideas and thoughts with my esteemed colleagues through LinkedIn on a professional level.  However, I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would be selected to join them in bringing forth truth based knowledge to offset in large part, those that have set out to control our industry using our government to do it with.  Or use junk science to promote an agenda against the entire Personal Care Products Industry as a whole.  And with all of that, I felt a certain responsibility to consumers to help them determine what was fact versus myth.  An example was defeating the Colorado Personal Care Products Safety Act several months ago.

I hope everyone will visit this excellent resource for information surrounding our industry and begin to weigh sound science with junk science.  Remember, there always is two sides to a story and typically those built on negativity get the most interest, sadly.  But proponents for sound science are finally pushing back against those that do not give accurate information, or in most cases incomplete or antiquated data.

Hope to see you there!

Personal Care Truth