Personal Care/Beauty Products

I just had to touch on this a bit....I know it's already a bit overwelming with the harmful things in our food and here I go moving forward to personal care/beauty products. This is just as important! Do you remember that our skin is our largest organ? What we put on our skin in absorbed into our bodies, chemicals and all. The downside is that SO MANY of these chemicals are linked to so many different health problems.

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?

List of some ingredients to avoid in beauty products:

PROPYLENE GLYCOL

Called a humectant in cosmetics, it is really "industrial anti-freeze" and the major ingredient in brake and hydraulic fluid. Tests show it can be a strong skin irritant. Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) on Propylene Glycol warn to avoid skin contact as it is systemic and can cause liver abnormalities and kidney damage.

PETROLATUM, PETROLEUM, MINERAL OIL

Comes from crude oil (petroleum) used in industry as metal cutting fluid. May suffocate the skin by forming an oil film. Healthy skin needs to take in oxygen and release carbon dioxide. This process should not be inhibited. Holding large amounts of moisture in the skin can "flood" the biology, and may result in immature, unhealthy, sensitive skin that dries out easily. SODIUM LAURYL SULFATE (SLS) and

SODIUM LAURETH SULFATE (SLES) (MSDS)
Potentially, SLS is perhaps the most harmful ingredient in personal-care products. SLS is used in testing-labs as the standard skin irritant to compare the healing properties of other ingredients. Industrial uses of SLS include: garage floor cleaners, engine degreasers and car wash soaps. Studies show its danger potential to be great, when used in personal-care products. Research has shown that SLS and SLES may cause potentially carcinogenic nitrates and dioxins to form in the bottles of shampoos and cleansers by reacting with commonly used ingredients found in many products. Large amounts of nitrates may enter the blood system from just one shampooing.

Sodium Fluoride (MSDS) - used as Rat poison, do you want it in your toothpaste?

Cocoamide DEA, TEA, MEA, (MSDS), diethanolamine, triethanolamine, sudsing agents, known carcinogens, seen on CBS News in 1998.

GLYCERIN (synthetic)(MSDS)
Draws moisture from inside the skin, and holds it on the surface for a better "feel". Dries skin from the inside out. Listed on MSDS as hazardous

Titanium Dioxide (MSDS) -now FINALLY declared a carcinogen, 2001 Long-term exposure to titanium dioxide dust may result in mild fibrosis (scarring of the lungs).
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