Is It Really Possible That Your Anti Aging Products Are Damaging Your Health?
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 many ingredients found in products that we may be using everyday that are potentially dangerous and are even known carcinogens. And this includes products that we may eat as well.
Mineral oil is a fine example of an ingredient that you may see if you look on the label of many big brand anti aging products. Avoid it.
Mineral oil is a petrochemical product which means that it comes from distilling crude oil. If you buy baby oil you’re getting a bottle of mineral oil.
Mineral oil is found in a wide range of anti aging products and skin care products and it is added to those products as a moisturizer. The reality is that mineral oil has absolutely no moisturizing properties of it’s own. Rather the intention is that mineral oil in anti aging products will cover the face with a thin film of oil on the skin that will help minimize moisture lost from the skin. And to some extent this is successful.
You may be familiar with Material Safety Data Sheets. A Material Safety Data Sheet is a document that lists everything that a user of a particular chemical ought to know about that chemical, for example for safety reasons. A Material Safety Data Sheet on mineral oil says that “mineral oils are suspected carcinogens of the skin and scrotum, larynx, lung and alimentary tracts”. On top of this it also says it “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.
Mineral oil isn’t all. There’s many other ingredients that you may see listed on the label of anti aging products that may well be dangerous. Why is this so and why aren’t we protected from this?
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.
Many of the ingredients that are found in so many personal products that most of us use every day are there because they are very cheap. The cheaper they can make the product the more profit that is made. Despite the fact that there are excellent products that are known to moisturize successfully and are also known to have a wide range of properties beneficial to our skin health they are rarely used because they are 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.
My website is intended to inform about the risks of modern big brand anti aging and skin care products and point you in the direction of these small companies that you’ve probably never heard of.
If you’d like to find out more then visit my website.
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