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sarahsweets · Jan 27, 2020, 08:05 AM

I am all for a holistic outlook and have zero problems with people treating themselves in this manner.I do take issue with Gwyneth Paltrow and her ridiculous site GOOP.
Here are a few things I read about goop.

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Paltrow loves to talk about vaginas. Apparently, for her, the origin of life is also a place to stuff cash you’re never gonna see again, in the form of special oils, eggs made of rock, and... steam. It must be said: owning a vagina does not make you an expert on one.

Paltrow is really into the concept of using oil as lubrication in whatever way you want to lubricate. She says conventional lubricants contain — wait for it — toxins. Goop even sells a “Sex Oil” at $28 for a 4-oz. bottle. Its description:

“We here at goop are unabashed proponents of good, clean, sexy sex. Oil-based personal lubricant is super-luxurious, with aromatherapy benefits, natural moisturizers, and a subtle scent. Made entirely of certified-organic ingredients — fractionated coconut oil, sunflower seed oil, evening primrose oil, and GMO-free vitamin E — and without fragrance, petrochemicals, and other toxic ingredients you find in conventional lubricant, you can use this lightweight oil on your body too. It’s great for all skin types, including sensitive.”
First, just a lifestyle note of my own: If sex is any good, shouldn’t it be messy, not clean? And second, the description of Sex Oil makes me wonder… Is a product with which you could conceivably fry things magically safer than an FDA-regulated lubricant?

I asked Dr. Jen Gunter, a board certified OB/GYN for Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco and frequent commentator on Paltrow’s suggestions for vaginal health, what she thought about Goop Sex Oil. She said that it offered “no advantage” to simply buying coconut oil at the store. She also advises against using vitamin E as part of a vaginal lube for reasons ranging from the unknown of how it affects the fairly complex ecosystem of your vagina to the chance that it could cause further damage to cells infected with HPV. Vitamins are not cure-alls, they are necessary for certain life functions. But using them improperly can cause just as many problems as not using them at all.

The really chafing thing about Paltrow’s Sex Oil is that it’s needlessly, and flagrantly, expensive. If you want to use coconut oil as lube, a jar costs $8 — although as Gunter warns, it is not a good idea to use oil with a latex condom, as oil-based lubricants break down latex in as little as a minute and we give you more credit than that. Some doctors don’t recommend using oil-based lubricants at all. If you use condoms, stick to FDA-tested, water-based lubes like KY.

The unbearable wrongness of Gwyneth Paltrow | The Outline

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Gwyneth Paltrow's health and wellness site Goop was called out by Truth in Advertising for selling modern day snake oil. Doctors, scientist and even NASA have called Goop out for selling things like crystals, stickers and vaginal jade eggs as cures for ailments like infertility or anxiety. Goop says they're putting out "unfiltered Q&As" so women can hear directly from experts and decide for themselves if the product is right for them. What do you think? 🐍

DatavizReal-time VotingIs Goop a huge scam?
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Truth in Advertising (TINA) filed a complain with California district attorneys, urging them to investigate Goop's marketing of its products. TINA points out that Goop is falsely claiming its products can treat or cure certain ailments. Under the law, you can't make health claims without proof. But Goop continues to claim walking barefoot can cure insomnia, stickers can promote healing and using crystals can cure infertility. There's no scientific evidence for any of these things.

Presenting this as just information and leaving it up to the readers to decide for themselves is not a defense. Goop is trying to sell these products to people as a health and wellness product. They're telling people that it can help improve their lives and make them feel better. That's a problem when they're pushing crystals as a potential cure for infertility. It's all ********.

TINA.org Takes Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop-y Health Claims to Regulators
TINA.org probe into Goop's marketing reveals a plethora of illegal health claims.

Truth In Advertising

#LiveBetterWithGoop
Goop argues it's not telling people what to think. All it's doing is presenting information to its audience so they can decide for themselves. Women are intelligent. They don't need to be told what to think or how to be healthy. What Goop is doing is removing the middleman in order to give women information and autonomy over their health. They can take what they want and leave the rest.

As women, we chafe at the idea that we are not intelligent enough to read something and take what serves us, and leave what does not. We simply want information; we want autonomy over our health. That’s why we do unfiltered Q&As, so you can hear directly from doctors; we see no reason to interpret or influence what they’re saying, to tell you what to think.
Asking questions is the job of all of us; it is also the job of the doctors and scientists who collectively move our health forward. There is much that we do not know. It is unfortunate that there are some who seem to believe that they already know it all, who pre-judge information before they’ve even taken the time to read or understand it, who believe that there is actually nothing left to learn, who believe that they, singularly, own the truth. That is troubling, and that is dangerous.

Goop's pseudoscience ministry comes to Netflix - STAT
And now unfortunately Netflix has given her a platform. I plan on watching for a good laugh.