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| - Rocky Mountain Soap Company is a bath and body boutique which advertises the use of natural/non-toxic ingredients in their products. My opinion of this shop is mixed.
In their favor, they carry a couple products which I absolutely love, including body butter that comes in a deodorant-like stick for easy application (great for travel/at the gym). Though I didn't check every product, they seem to be very transparent about their ingredients (e.g., listing what is in their fragrance), which I think is great.
OK, so the downside. I buy so-called "natural" products because I've found that they are less likely to contain things that irritate my skin (e.g., certain pigments, some fragrance ingredients). Unfortunately one of their soaps gave me a rash (the first one I bought), so I am afraid to purchase other soaps here. The second thing is that I think they use too much chemophobic fear-mongering to promote their products. The in-store and online advertisements follow these lines, and last I visited the shop was featuring copies of the book "There's Lead in Your Lipstick" by Gillian Deacon, which is basically a repetitive rant about avoiding "chemicals", in which the author fails to apply high school chemistry/physics to her subject matter. I get why this sells, but I don't agree with the message. Blanket statements about synthetic chemicals being toxic, or natural chemicals being good for you, and so on are incredibly misleading and take advantage of consumers' legitimate concerns about what goes into the products they use.
RMSC sells some really fantastic products, I just don't agree with their method of advertising, so for now, I'm out.
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