Although most people don’t realize it, their favorite skin care products can be significant contributors of harmful ingredients, toxins and chemicals. I call it “the real price of beauty.” Fact is, the majority of store-bought, commercially-produced beauty products come packed with artificial colors, fragrances, preservatives and stabilizers that can easily be absorbed through the skin’s pores, potentially causing a range of negative long-term health effects.
Chemicals found in beauty products can be damaging
throughout their entire life cycle, from the way they are produced and used by
consumers, to the methods of their disposal and their negative impact on the
environment.
So what does this mean for your beauty routine? The good
news is that there’s still plenty of natural ways to make your skin − and your
even hair, teeth or nails − look their best without needing to buy expensive
and harmful commercial products. Women all over the world have been using
natural skin care products for centuries and have some of the most admirable
skin to show for it!
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The Hidden Toxicity of Most Beauty Products
Unfortunately, today it’s a reality that most mass-produced
products we use everyday — whether for personal beauty care, household
cleansing or storing things like foods in plastics — are loaded with endless
synthetic ingredients that can wind up causing more harm than good.
Buying skin care products can be tricky these days, with so
many different options available and endless, hard-to-pronounce ingredient
lists on every face wash, lotion and scrub package. Knowing the potential for
commercially sold products to absorb right into your skin and cause serious
issues, you really want to keep an eye on what is being added to your products
and how your skin reacts.
When looking for skin care products, follow the same rules
that you follow for a healthy diet: hunt for unprocessed ingredients, without
any harsh chemicals or anything artificial! Basically, the closer to the nature
the natural skin product is, the more your skin will know what to do with its
beneficial ingredients in order to improve your skin’s health.
Store-bought skin care products typically contain toxic
ingredients and chemical fragrances that are linked to all sorts of issues −
from hormonal problems, irregular periods and infertility to allergies and even
cancer.
One of the most significant consequences of built-up toxin
exposure from artificial skin care products is hormone imbalances, since many
products contain hormone disruptors. These external, or exogenous, hormones
found in commercial products are substances produced outside the body that may
act like or affect hormones inside the body. They include synthetic, patentable
hormones that negatively affect the endocrine system and can impact a women’s
menstrual cycle, fertility and even hormone levels in men.