There is a new Organic line of products out and on the shelves at Chapters and I am sure many other stores called Beautea. An Organic Tea based lotion that looks great, smells great and works great too. (i tested it). However my upset came when I tried to look up the ingredients on the box. To my surprise there were no ingredients listed. I checked the bottle of Beatea lotion and only the Organic Teas were listed. No mention of any other ingredients (which there always is).

My first reaction when I cannot find ingredients is to put whatever I am looking at back down as the company is usually hiding something. Maybe this is not true in all cases, but I have found it to be true in many.

So I set the overpriced $20.00 bottle of hand lotion back down. A general rule I love by is that I won’t buy something that goes on my skin or my childrens with out knowing exactly what is in that product.

I am not sure if you are aware, but your skin is the largest organ on our body and absorbs everything you put on it. To stay healthy we follow a simple rule. If you can’t eat it then you shouldn’t put it on your skin.

Since I liked the product I decided to email them when I returned home to get a product list. They kindle sent me it in 24hrs but questioned my asking. ???

Below I have copy and pasted the ingredient listing from their Moisturizing Body Lotion, exactly as I was sent it. At a quick glance it looked good, but once I slowed my eyes down I ended up dissapointed with this new Organic body lotion from PureLiving.ca. I have bolded the ingredients that should cause concern to you.

Beautea (pureliving.ca) INGREDIENT LISTING
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Beautea Organic Body Lotion / Moisturizing Body Lotion / 250 ml – 8.5 fl oz

Water (Aqua), Certified Organic Sesame (Sesamum Indicum) Oil, Stearic Acid, Glyceryl Stearate, Cetyl Alcohol, Carbomer 941, Tocopheryl acetate (Vitamin E), T.E.A., Certified Organic Fragrance, Certified Organic Ginseng (Panax Ginseng) Extract, Certified Organic Green Tea (Camellia Sinensis) Extract, Certified Organic Lemon (Citrus Limon) Oil, Certified Organic Orchid (Cymbidiums) Extract, Certified Organic Oolong (Oleum Amygdalarum Amarum) Extract, Certified Organic Soybean (Glycine Max) Oil, Certified Organic Sunflower (Helianthus Annuus) Oil, Sesame (Sesamum Indicum) Oil, Shea Butter (Butyrospermum Parkii).

Their product is loaded with great ingredients and organic ones at that but these two ingredients are unsafe to put on your body and should cause concern.

Here is a little bit of info on these two ingredients and why you should not use them.

T.E.A is usually a combination Triethanolamine and Diethanolamine (also known as D.E.A) but can sometimes be just Triethanolamine & water.

TEA is a synthetic emulsifier. Over 40% of cosmetics containing Triethanolamine (TEA), have been found to be contaminated with nitrosamines, which are potent carcinogens.

If we break it down you have Diethanolamine, which is a foaming agent widely used in personal care products such as shampoos, hair dyes, and bath products. DEA can also be found in some pesticide formulations, as a so-called inert ingredient.

Products containing DEA may be contaminated with nitrosamines, some of which may cause cancer, if the product contains nitrites as a preservative. Nitrosamines may accidentally contaminate DEA-containing products as well.

European Union restricts DEA use to 1% of any cosmetic ingredient. But in the U.S., there are no such regulations. Manufacturers are advised by the Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association to limit DEA usage to five times what is accepted in Europe. This is not acceptable and just another thing wrong with the United States and something that makes us think many things link back to the big medical industry!

My advice to you is to not use products that contain DEA.

My advice to you is to not use products that contain  (T.E.A) Triethanolamine.

These chemicals are already restricted in Europe due to known carcinogenic effects. Repeated skin applications of DEA-based products resulted in a major increase in the incidence of liver and kidney cancer.

If you want to support the American Medical Industry and bring their wrong standards into Canada, then by all means buy their toxic laced organic products and join the long list of patients that support the medical industry by poisoning themselves.

My advice is when you come across products that contain ingredients that are known cacarcinogens or toxins is to email or call the company and let them know your dissappointment with their products ingredients. Let them know you will not buy it and let them know you will inform all your friends about the toxic ingredients they use.

The more we voice ourselves as consumers and people who deserve to keep our health when using products. The more the world will change.