My wife uses a facial toner from a famous UK store that claims to have “Plant extracts at levels that really work” and is obviously marketing at the cynically savvy consumer who has realised “homeopathic levels” are a nonsense. That’s all well and good, but the list of ingredients in this product still looks to be pretty much a standard set of cosmetic chemicals to me – “Aqua, butylene glycol, alcohol denat., glycerin, polysorbate 20…and at last…Equisetum arvense, then phenoxyethanol, lactic acid, glycolic acid, parfum, citric acid, dipropylene glycol, malic acid, sodium citrate and tartaric acid…
…that plant extract is from the noxious weed field horsetail. Is this really something you’d want to be rubbing on your skin at “levels that really work”? I better warn my wife.