From Inmates to Playdates

I’m afraid this is going to be another weird “What I Learned This Week” post.

And no!, before you ask, I did not watch another embalming.

My boys and I returned home from spending two weeks with McDaddy’s sister and her family in New Hampshire. We had a great visit and aside from the fact that Angie’s baby girl decided not to make her appearance while we there, the whole visit was wonderful. My granny would put it like this, “there wasn’t a cross word said between us!” My granny is a hoot. Maybe I’ll introduce you to her sometime.

Anyway. Where was I?

Angie tried her best to convert me to Arbonnism while I was there. Arbonne is a company that makes skin care and cosmetic products that are pure, safe and beneficial.

A product that Angie happens to use.

And sell.

And you know how those direct sells people can be.

Ahem!

Pure pressure, people.

Oh, I kid.

I was skeptical because the products are a little pricey. Throughout the entire two-week-visit Angie would pop into my room and hand me yet another product to try. Folks, I exfoliated, rubbed, sampled, cleansed, hydrated, scrubbed, doused, brushed, massaged, smelled, tested, sampled, experimented and showered with Arbonne products. 

My skin thanked me which is more than I can say for my wallet when it was all said and done.

One day, we were standing in her kitchen talking about all manner of cosmetics. And by ‘all manner’ I mean that she mentioned two words that changed the way I will forever look at my cover girl eyeshadow.

My Maybelline mascara.

And my clinique blush.

Animal. and Rendering.

I had never heard those words before and had no idea what she was talking about. In fact, I shook my head and puckered my face up in disbelief.

I’ll give you a second to google the animal and the rendering.

Or You-Tube it.

The thought of animal rendering grosses me out. I made the mistake of watching a nine-minute You-Tube video this morning on Animal rendering. It probably would not have generally bothered me, but as luck would have it, I had just finished eating blueberry waffles slathered in butter and syrup. 

If you have a weak stomach or are just generally grossed out by the site of gross stuff, I would totally suggest you forgo the whole You Tube animal rendering experience. 

Unless of course you don’t plan to eat for the next week.

Or are just as nosy as me and can’t stand the thought of not seeing what all the animal rendering hype is about.

Let me be the first to say that I am more than happy to wear a pair of new shoes or carry a fabulous handbag made from one of these unfortunate bovine friends. But seriously, the thought of that grinded-up innerd stuff being used in cosmetics and hand lotions.

Um. Not so much.

On the off chance that you’d like to check out the ingredients in your Clinique, Cover Girl or Revlon stuff to see if the animal rendering is used in the making of those products, here are some of the words that are associated with animal rendering: tallow; keratin; collagen; elastin; carmine; oliec, palmitic, stearic, myristic and linoleic acids;

In the meantime, I’m googleizing all of my cosmetic products because Googling is what I do.

I should totally make some type of clever connection between the embalming, the make-up and the animal rendering at this point.

But I’ll spare you.

‘Maybe she’s born with it. Maybe it’s Maybelline’ 

And just maybe they should list the product ingredients on their site because I’m just dying to know what’s in there.

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