Would You Believe That Your Anti Aging Skin Care Products Can Be Killing You?
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. Are you Wondering why?” Is it possible the reason is that so many ingredients found in anti aging skin care products, cosmetics and other personal products could be dangerous?
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 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.
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 mineral oil cause cancer and skin conditions.
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.
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.
Some excellent small niche skin care companies make outstanding skin care products that don’t contain harmful ingredients and which work extremely well. Unfortunately they are unable to compete with the big players in the television advertising market and so chances are you’ll never find out who they are.
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.
You’ll find out more on my website.
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