Are Your Skin Care Products Damaging To Your Skin?
Did you know that Ralph Nader has said that “Over the last 100 years, the rate of cancer in the U.S. has sky-rocketed from 1 out of 800 people diagnosed, to 1 out of 3 today.” Do you have any idea why? Of cause there is no definitive answer however there is a reasonable chance that one of the causes may be dangerous ingredients in personal and beauty care products such as skin care and anti aging products and cosmetics and more.
There’s no doubt that many of the ingredients found in so many personal products including skin care products that we use on our skin today are suspect or dangerous. This isn’t confined to the skin care or personal products industries, it is true of so many of the products that we use today including many we eat.
Here’s a quick example of an ingredient that you may find in many personal products that you would be well advised to avoid. Mineral oil.
Mineral oil is a byproduct of the distillation of crude oil and is therefore a petrochemical product. If you buy baby oil you’re buying pure mineral oil, sometimes with a fragrance added to it.
You’ll find mineral oil in many personal, anti aging and skin care products and cosmetics and other products. It used in anti aging products as a moisturiser however mineral oil has no moisturising properties. It’s there because it forms a thin film of oil on your skin and that film prevents moisture loss. This works to some degree.
Have you ever heard of a Material Safety Data Sheet? A Material Safety Data Sheet is a document that lists essential information for anyone handling a chemical, including important safety information. Read a Material Safety Data Sheet on mineral oil and you’ll see that it says that mineral oil is are “suspected carcinogens of the skin and scrotum, larynx, lung and alimentary tracts” and that mineral oils “may cause eye, skin and respiratory tract irritation” and also that “pre-existing skin disorders may be aggravated by exposure”.
So it’s quite clear that you can get cancer in various parts of your body from mineral oil and it irritates your skin.
That’s only one of many different ingredients that you’ll see listed on the label of anti aging skin care products that may be dangerous. Look on the label of products you might have used this morning. How is it possible that products like these contain potentially dangerous ingredients?
The truth is that the FDA is not required to test products such as anti aging products for either their safety or for how well they work. Big business is not known for its ethics and concern for the customer, (just see the cigarette companies for an example). If they are allowed to use suspect ingredients in their products and it pays then to do so then they will.
These ingredients are commonly used because they’re cheap. Cheaper ingredients means more profit. There’s excellent ingredients that they could use which are well known to promote better skin health but they’re more expensive.
But there are some very clever people running some small skin care companies that know that it is possible to make high quality anti aging skin products that are very effective. They can’t compete on TV advertising but they can compete on product quality but the chances are you’ll never find out who they are because they don’t advertise.
I seek to inform readers via my website of the sorts of ingredients they should avoid when buying anti aging skin care products and others and point them in the direction of companies that make safe and effective alternatives.
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