Author: Rob the polymath

As laws change to allow health conscious consumers more knowledge about what's in consumer products, so do the unintended consequences, such as with California's Prop 65 warning requirements. Prop 65 started with good intentions, but as with many other things in the marketplace, has gotten turned upside down, resulting in some unexpected and unfortunate outcomes, especially for supplement manufacturers. Continue reading

A lot of companies in the personal care product industry are committing fraud. They're lying about what is is their products, and/or they're simply using generic off the shelf formulas comprised of chemical soup. They focus only on marketing, rather than what is in their products, and put consumer health at risk as a result. Here is a perfect example of that. Continue reading

Why should you care if you wash with soap or detergent? Are they not the same? Isn't soap just that, soap? Items labeled soap are not always soap, they're often actually detergents. Detergents are very different from soaps, and the reason this matters is the same reason why we started Nature's Complement: it has to do with health. Continue reading

I recently saw an "article" (really an advertisement) on Yahoo as I was logging out of an old email account. It claims that the secret to Jennifer Lopez's young looks is the skin cream she uses (rather than all her makeup). Now this is a highly transparent marketing scheme to anyone paying attention, because Continue reading