Spin off of previous post: "Discontinued products..." (Please excuse typos or font weirdness, can't seem to get it right) :)

So I am sure we have all had our share of beauty products that work for us, just to be disappointed because all of a sudden, the ingredients have changed.  We don't immediately know the ingredients have changed because the companies don't seem to make it a priority to place emphasis on the change.  We usually get advertisements like "New and improved!" or "Now, with "so and so complex" added!"

When we realize the product has changed, ingredient-wise, we usually don't notice until we have already purchased the new product and it no longer works the same.  This sucks right?  Well I grew tired of spending my hard-earned money on less quality product and started paying more attention to labels and product bottle differences.  Yeah, products change the "look" of their products all the time, but how many times does the look accompany an ingredient change as well?

Just to give some examples of how I am not paranoid about this, I have experienced a few disappointing changes, firsthand:

One of my favorite cream moisturizers/leave ins back in the day was Bronner Brothers Castor Oil Lotion aka

B&B Oil Moisturizer with Castor Oil 

When I started using it years ago, the ingredients were:

Ingredients: Water, Canola Oil, Sorbitan Sesquioleate, Castor Oil, Polyquaternium 32, Polysorbate 80, Aloe Vera Gel, Dl Panthenol, Propylene Glycol, Diazolidinyl Urea, Idopropnyl Butylcarbamate, Fragrance and D&C Red #33

Ingredients from BB website (Shows parabens): Water , Canola Oil , Sorbitan Sesquioleate , Castor Oil , Polyquaternium 32 , Polysorbate 80 , Aloe Vera Gel , DL Panthenol , Diazolidinyl Urea , Methyl Paraben , Propyl Paraben , Fragrance , D&C Red No. 33 Other variations found on the net (No parabens but paraffinum liquidum (mineral oil) added):    Purifed Water, Canola Oil, Sorbitan Sesquioleate, Castor Oil, Polyquaternium 32, Paraffinum Liquidum, Aloe Vera Gel, Panthenol, Coconut Oil, Polysorbate 80, Propylene Glycol, Diazolidinyl Urea, Idopropynyl Butylcarbamate, D&C Red #33 and Fragrance.

At first glance, I don't know what many of the above items are, but all I know is I don't see mineral oil or petrolatum in the first product.  These ingredients could be hidden behind another name but who knows?  Nevertheless, why all the changes?  And why doesn't the consumer have the right to know or be given privy to information like, "mineral oil now added" or "parabens now added?" 

It's very frustrating.

In conclusion, Bronner Brothers are not the only culprit.  There is Dove, Organic Root Stimulator and a host of others I could name, and I will as soon as I have more time.   Thanks for reading my rant! :)