How Safe Are Your Skin and Body Care Products ?
How safe are the cleansing and beautifying products you put on your body ? If you’re anything like we were, not very safe at all !
As you’ve gathered, we’re pretty health and toxicity conscious. Even so, when we checked the products on our bathroom shelves for a list of toxic substances often found in such products, we had to toss 8 of the first 14 we checked !
How Safe are Your Skin and Bodycare Products ?
This is a link to the Environmental Working Group’s Skin Deep Cosmetic Safety Database. You can easily check the products you use for toxicity – just enter the full name of the product in the purple search box at the top of the page, and click.
To find safe products in any product category, mouse over the key words in the row just below the search box, then click on the specific product type. The selection is incredible, as you’ll soon see.
This is serious business. Americans apply an average of five pounds of toxic substances per year to their faces and bodies. We may able to excrete or process some part of this when we’re in our prime, but as we age this capacity diminishes. Toxins begin to accumulate – a phenomena known as body burden. And at a certain point their cumulative affects tip us over into disease. Perhaps most sobering are the potential effects of toxins on the most vulnerable among us – namely babies in utero.
As you explore this website, please also evaluate the products – right down to the toothpastes – that you use for your children. And be sure to read the Teen Cosmetics Study article, at the link in the upper right hand corner.
Lastly, it's worth considering what consequences may have accumulated for you through past use of skin and body care products and cosmetics. In this regard, consider the option of environmental toxic substance detoxification :
Get Environmental Toxins Out of Your Body Now !
It may seem tedious to focus so much on health risks and health choices ; but if we may say so, at this point in time in our culture, no one can really expect to be healthy in the long term, who doesn’t decide to be healthy, and take the necessary steps. Painful as it may be to get oriented in our uncertain modern landscape, in the long run it’s worth it !
Article by : Jeff Smith RN (Retired)
How safe are the cleansing and beautifying products you put on your body ? If you’re anything like we were, not very safe at all !
As you’ve gathered, we’re pretty health and toxicity conscious. Even so, when we checked the products on our bathroom shelves for a list of toxic substances often found in such products, we had to toss 8 of the first 14 we checked !
How Safe are Your Skin and Bodycare Products ?
This is a link to the Environmental Working Group’s Skin Deep Cosmetic Safety Database. You can easily check the products you use for toxicity – just enter the full name of the product in the purple search box at the top of the page, and click.
To find safe products in any product category, mouse over the key words in the row just below the search box, then click on the specific product type. The selection is incredible, as you’ll soon see.
This is serious business. Americans apply an average of five pounds of toxic substances per year to their faces and bodies. We may able to excrete or process some part of this when we’re in our prime, but as we age this capacity diminishes. Toxins begin to accumulate – a phenomena known as body burden. And at a certain point their cumulative affects tip us over into disease. Perhaps most sobering are the potential effects of toxins on the most vulnerable among us – namely babies in utero.
As you explore this website, please also evaluate the products – right down to the toothpastes – that you use for your children. And be sure to read the Teen Cosmetics Study article, at the link in the upper right hand corner.
Lastly, it's worth considering what consequences may have accumulated for you through past use of skin and body care products and cosmetics. In this regard, consider the option of environmental toxic substance detoxification :
Get Environmental Toxins Out of Your Body Now !
It may seem tedious to focus so much on health risks and health choices ; but if we may say so, at this point in time in our culture, no one can really expect to be healthy in the long term, who doesn’t decide to be healthy, and take the necessary steps. Painful as it may be to get oriented in our uncertain modern landscape, in the long run it’s worth it !
Article by : Jeff Smith RN (Retired)
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