The facts are alarming. Each day, the average woman uses 12 personal care products containing 168 chemical ingredients; the average man uses six products containing 85 chemicals*. We are learning more everyday about the harmful effects of the toxins found in most of these products. And yet, the self-regulating personal care industry is slow to act.
What you put on your skin can affect your health! Your skin is your body’s biggest organ. Products with harmful ingredients can make you sick! If you cannot eat the product you should not be putting it on your skin! Think about it! Every day we use products that we think are safe: but the truth is that products are not always safe. Even when a product says all natural you still have to be careful.. Products are marketed without government approval of ingredients. Ever since 1983 when the PDA granted self-regulation to the cosmetics industry! Most of the 25,000 chemicals used have not been tested for long-term effects.. This is something that everyone needs to be thinking about.
How many personal care products do you use in a day? I bet more then you think…shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, foundation, lipstick, eye shadow, mascara? Shaving cream, after shave, lotions, baby oil, chap stick, toothpaste?? Have you ever read the warning on toothpaste ?? These little amounts add up to larger amounts of poisons we are putting into our body on a daily basis!
Mineral Oil: Oh yes! We all love baby oil don’t we? Petroleum by-product that coats the skin like a plastic wrap, clogging the pores. This is horrible for you! Interferes with the skins ability to eliminate toxins, promotes acne and other disorders. Slows down skin function and cell development! And we use this on our babies…think again!
Propylene Glycol(PG) & Butylenes Glycol: This is found in Anti-freeze. Acts as a surfactant. Strong enough to remove barnacles from boats! The EPA warns against contact to prevent brain liver and kidney abnormalities. But there isn’t even a warning label on our products…such as stick deodorants.
Sodium Lauryl Sulfate(SLS) & Sodium Laureth Sulfate(SLES) Used in garage floor cleaners and engine degreasers, this is in 90% of personal-care products that foam! This is Scary! Do you really want to put this on your skin?
Fragrances: Can contain up to 4000 ingredients(including animal urine). Who would have ever thought there would be animal urine in our perfume. But that is nothing compared to the other 4000 ingredients. Fragrances affect the nervous system, causing depression, hyper-activity, irritability, inability to cope and other behavioral changes. Sounds a lot like our world today to me.
DEA(diethanolamine), MEA(Monoethanolaniine) & TEA(triethanolamine): These are hormone-disrupting chemicals that can form cancer-causing nitrites.. Found in shampoos, shaving creams, and bubble baths. Bubble baths! Think about our children, they spend a lot of time in the bathtub. And yes these are in our children’s bubble bath too!
Sodium Hydroxide: Poison! This is found in drain cleaners and in some children and adult toothpaste! Drain cleaner in our mouth?
Triclosan: This is a Synthetic antibacterial, with a chemical structure similar to Agent Orange! The EPA registers it as a pesticide. Giving it high risk to human health and the environment. It can change genetic material, decrease fertility & sexual function. It can accumulate to toxic level, damaging the kidneys, lungs, liver, brain, and heart problems. This is used in anti-bacterial cleansers, toothpastes and household products. This could have a horrible effect on future generations.
DMDM & Urea(Imidazolidinyl) Preservative’s that often release formaldehyde which cause allergies, depression, skin reactions, joint pain, headaches, chest pains, ear infections, fatigue, dizziness…Triggers heart palpitations or asthma. Other side effects include weakening the immune system and cancer.
Polyethylene Glycol(PEG) Used in spray oven cleaners to dissolve oil and grease. Increases the appearance of aging.
Liutane or Propane Found in aerosol products. May be narcotic and cause asphyxiation.
Alcohol, Isopropyl(SD40) Made from a petroleum derivative found in shellac and antifreeze as well as our personal car products! Promotes brown spots & premature aging. Strips the skin of moisture and immune barrier, making you vulnerable to bacteria and viruses. Fatal ingested dose is one ounce or less.
FD&C Color Pigments: synthetic colors from coal tar. This deposits toxins onto the skin, causing irritation. Absorption of certain colors can cause depletion of oxygen in the body and death.
Methyl, Propyl, Butyl and Ethyl Paraben — Found in a variety of deodorants, skin and hair products, parabens extend the shelf life of products by inhibiting microbial growth. Reactions can include skin rashes, the estrogenic qualities of parabens have scientists concerned about implications for endocrine disorders including hormonal imbalance. Parabens also have been found in human breast tissue.
The Environmental Working Group has researched personal care product safety for over 5 years now. The EWG has compiled an electronic database of ingredient labels for 29,000 name brand products and cross-linked it with 50 toxicity or regulatory databases.
To protect yourself, go online to www. ewg.org - to learn more. Go online to www.safecosmetics.org to see the signers of the Compact for Safe Cosmetics and then make smart purchase decisions. Visit : www.cosmeticsdatabase.com to view their safety guide to cosmetics and personal care products.
Why would we want to put any of these ingredients on our body?? Wonder why everyone has so many health issues? I just don’t understand why companies are even allowed to use these ingredients. So, as I see it we are slowly making ourselves and our children sick. Please take this seriously. I have just in the last year been made aware of this information. Actually I never really thought about it. I just assumed that products would be safe! That they were regulated in some way. Well news flash!! We are in trouble and so are our future generations. Please check your ingredients!!! And let people know what you have now learned!
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