The Founder and President of Pangea Organics, Joshua Scott Onysko posted this for October and I really just wanted to share it. He has such amazing insight and I believe these words are spot on. Please check out www.pangeaorganics.com/rebekahbavry to Detox your skin care. You have to start somewhere. Pangea Organics is the perfect place to start!
Dear Friends,
For the past 13 years as I’ve been growing Pangea, I have watched the pink ribbon and / or color pink being used to market products during October, which is recognized as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Many of these products touting the ribbon use many ingredients, and when I say many, I really mean most, that are known to cause cancer.
In the United States alone, over 300,000 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in 2013 and over 40,000 friends, mothers, sisters and wives will die as a result. Breast Cancer is the leading type of cancer in women, with skin cancer coming in close second.
These statistics are a major reason why we do what we do here at Pangea. There are over 100,000 chemicals being used in the health and beauty aids industry, less than 10% of them have ever been tested for safety, and on average, women put 500+ chemicals on their bodies everyday...yes daily. These corporations and brands that have marketed their way into your hearts and wallets knowingly are making us sick, literally, and killing us slowly in the name of market growth and profit.
We will not wait for the government to step in and create new standards as they have failed us with our food supply, and they have failed us with the distribution of unsafe pharmaceuticals. We will not wait for you to change and hope that one day your conscience will catch up with you and you will finally decide to make better choices. No, we won’t. Pangea and many other companies who have ethics and believe in creating products that are safe, healthy and efficacious are out here educating consumers and giving them better options.
In less than six months, over 1,000 moms, doctors, therapists, estheticians, nurses, artists, yoga teachers and students around the U.S. will have chosen to be part of the solution and to educate and empower the consumer with knowledge. One thousand today. One hundred thousand tomorrow. We will not stop, and we cannot be bought. We at Pangea, and our Beauty Ecologists, believe that our personal health and the health of our communities are...priceless.
Knowledge is power which doubles when you share it.
~Joshua Scott Onysko, Founder and President of Pangea Organics
