Thank you Matt. That was real interesting. I use to do design quite a
few 'Corporate Social Responsibility Reports' for some big Corporates
(not the Body Shop though, I think they did theirs in-house) and like
to keep as informed as possible on their 'real' ethics. I just don't
like these big companies saying one thing and acting in an other.
Lisa M.

--- In rosacea-support@yahoogroups.com, Matthew I <mtthw_i@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Lisa,
>  
> In relation to what you just said about the body shop..... (if you
are interested)
>  
> I recently started using a couple of products from the body shop
that contain TTO in the hope of testing the demodex theory. I sent
them an e-mail to ask about the concentrations of TTO in their
products. This was their response...
>  
> "Dear Matthew
>  
> Thank you for your email.
>  
> The Tea Tree Oil Foaming Face Wash contains around 1% tea tree oil
and the Mattifying Moisture Gel .5%, small quantities but is enough to
benefit the product and make it effective and safe to use.
>  
> The rest of the product range is similar, .5 to 1% out of 100%, the
Tea Tree Oil products contains the highest at around 15% tea tee oil.
>  
> Best wishes
> Karen Arkey
> Customer Service
> The Body Shop Australia "
>  
> When she said "The Tea Tree Oil Products contains the highest at
around 15% tea tree oil" she was referring to their product which just
contains the diluted tea tree oil.
> http://www.thebodyshop.com.au/Product.aspx?Id=50
>  
> Now according to the article that we were all looking at previously
>  
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/feb/18/medicineandhealth.health
>  
> They state that concentrations of Tea Tree Oil less than 1% are
safe. I'm trying to find some more information on that at the moment,
and also trying to find out if concentrations of TTO < 1% will
actually kill demodex and their associated bacteria.
>  
> Matt.
>
>
>  
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Hi Jasper.
> Oh, please don't go. I've just come back from holiday and thought wow
> what a lively debate.
>
> It's good to have opinions and that's what creates the debate. As long
> as we are all polite and sensible about it. Well geeh why not? I'm
> french and we (the french and my family included) have I beleive
> nothing but debates. We might all in the end stick to our guns but
> it's always a good thing to hear what others have to say.
>
> I'm not sure about TTO being bad and I am not a user of this product
> but I appreciate the knowledge you have given me in this particular
> field. Even more so that the body shop who have strong ethics on
> cosmetics seem to have a whole range using it... something to
> definitely follow.
>
> I think it's a shame that we should 'fight' over issues that are meant
> to be helpful and with good intent and the fact that you apologised
> for your tone of voice shows this.
>
> Emails can a lot of times appear very abrupt and dry and do not always
> truly carry the real intent of the writer.
>
> So lets all please stick together to keep informing each other in as
> friendly a manner as we can manage.
>
> BTW Happy New Year to all my fellow rosaceans!
> Lisa M.
>
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