Dealing with Lies about EOs

[Guest guest]

I realize I am new here and so it might be inappropriate for me to ask a favor

so soon, but I am hoping some of you natural perfumers could address a certain

situation.

There is a company with thousands of followers and hundreds, maybe even

thousands, of MLM-style salespeople - called Ava NonToxic.

She has HUGE outreach because basically, every time the Campaign for safe

Cosmetics is interviewed for an article, they point to this company as the

example and role model of " natural, non-toxic " (even organic which they are not)

cosmetics.

The owner has written things that are so outrageous on her Facebook page - yet

anyone who challenges her there gets blocked and banned.

Here are the ingredients she lists for her " 100% essential oil " perfumes:

Hope – Ava Perfume From Essential Oils. Ingredients: Absinthe, Amber, Cacao,

Cassis, Coconut, Lily, Lychee, Opoponax, Orris, Passion Flower, Sandalwood,

White Cranberry, White Freesia.

Love – Ava Perfume From Essential Oils. Ingredients: Coconut, Iris, Jacaranda

Wood, Jasmine, Massoia Bark, Muhuhu, Neroli, Oakmoss, Rose, Vanilla, Zdravets.

Joy – Ava Perfume From Essential Oils. Ingredients: Amber Musk, Bergamot, Black

Currant, Coconut, Grapefruit, Lavender, Tangerine, Jasmine, Lily of the Valley,

Mandarin, Rose, Vanilla.

I have reached out to everyone I know personally in the aromatherapy community

but no one seems to want to take on this battle.

So I am hoping some of you can help. TRUE natural perfume is such a blessing and

for consumers to be mislead this way is a crime, in my opinion.

Maybe articles about ingredients " claimed " to be essential oils which are not?

Even postings on her Facebook page would reach her readers/followers before she

has a chance to delete them. I know a couple of mine lasted as long as 4 days

before they were " discovered " !

I have done all I can with a series of articles on one of my blogs:

http://www.greenwala.com/channels/family-go-green/blog/20189-PERFUME-what-s-on-t\

he-label

http://www.greenwala.com/profiles/susan-sawhill-apito/blog/20151-What-Is-an-Esse\

ntial-Oil

http://www.greenwala.com/profiles/susan-sawhill-apito/blog/20239-Campaign-for-Sa\

fe-Cosmetics-CHAMPION-hides-perfume-allergens

http://www.greenwala.com/profiles/susan-sawhill-apito/blog/20193-SERIES-Is-this-\

an-EO-Oakmoss

http://www.greenwala.com/profiles/susan-sawhill-apito/blog/20156-SERIES-Is-this-\

an-EO-Lily-of-the-Valley

http://www.greenwala.com/profiles/susan-sawhill-apito/blog/20172-SERIES-Is-this-\

an-EO-Amber-musk

http://www.greenwala.com/profiles/susan-sawhill-apito/blog/20152-SERIES-Is-this-\

an-EO-Massoia-bark

http://www.greenwala.com/channels/eco-beauty/blog/20145-WARNING-avaSCENT-are-syn\

thetic-fragrances

THANKS!

OH - and if I have misspoken with any of the information I posted in my

articles, understand I come from the " whole " EO camp and am not familiar with

natural isolates so feel free to correct me!

Sue Apito