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Toxic lies!
A friend of mine became a brand manager. Being open to beauty products, I went to her party. It made my nose stuffy and smells awful. I had to leave the room to get air. I haven't the heart to tell her this stuff is terrible. The photos looked fake to me - and that's easy to do. Then I did the research on it.
It's made using an extract from a toxic plant called Nerium Oleander. This is toxic in a deadly way See the link below from the American Cancer Society. I can't recommend the product and I would never use it. Oleander sap is a known skin irritant.
The people who sell it say that it's FDA approved, but that's only as a cancer drug. The FDA doesn't regulate beauty products(YET). As a cancer drug (Anvrizil), it's produced negligible results and caused at least two known deaths. And yes, oleander is that bushy plant with the pretty flowers growing by the freeway in California.
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If you want to read more, take a look at Wikipedia. And just so you know, if you look at a website called Nerium Biotech, that's the company that makes this stuff, so consider the source.
August 2013 · Unknown