Burt's Bees Argumentative Essay

“Your skin is beautifully alive. It’s a living, breathing thing—your body’s largest, loveliest organ—and when it’s healthy, it shows,” is the Burt’s Bees skincare philosophy. Burt’s Bees is an organic based skincare company that focuses on nature-derived ingredients. They support the claims of organic care is better for you than chemically derived products. Organic or natural means that the product does not contain synthetic compounds or materials. Many groups, companies, and consumers are also in support with Burt’s Bees and list their products as “organic.” Made from Earth, another natural based company, list “these harmful ingredients” allowed by the FDA such as parabens, fragrances, and petrochemicals. Many of these harmful chemicals used …show more content…
Many natural products advertise the benefits of the ingredients they added into their products. For Burt’s Bees towelettes, the featured extracts are white tea and cucumber. Burt’s Bees Facial Cleaning Towelettes site points out that “White Tea is an amazing thing. It has three times more polyphenols as Green Tea and is believed to neutralize free radicals as well as help minimize damage from environmental pollutants.” In addition to that, white tea also helps with oxidation stress and inflammatory effects. Although the benefits of cucumber extract are not listed on the Burt’s Bees site, it still is a huge benefit. The main benefits are its soothing, healing, calming, and hydrating effects. It is important for consumers to pay attention and notice what it is in our products. The government has minimal if any standards for most of the components in our cosmetics. Our skin is important, and the artificial elements can harm our skin, why not aid it instead of harming …show more content…
Many could desire the glowing, radiant skin advertised on T.V. However, there is a deeper purpose than looking model ready. Below the pigmentation we see are tons of layers that protect and help us function. Nina Jabalonski, a professor, and author, discusses how it protects us. From elements such as UV rays and water, regulates our temperature, acts as a barrier or immunity against illnesses and abrasions, and senses our environments allowing us to connect. Our epidermis goes through cycles and holds in moisture all to help us function. If one considers all of these factors, would he or she outright harm it? The consideration of harmful ingredients could protect consumers from damaging the organ that lets humans live. The melanin we see is not deeply layered but what our skin takes as moisture is. Whatever “moisture” the consumer chooses reflects on the outside. The moisture from the ingredients in products such as Burt’s Bees White Tea wipes can help our dermis repair and continue sheltering consumers against the environments