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 petrochemical product which means that it comes from distilling crude oil. If you buy baby oil you’re getting a bottle of mineral oil.

Look on the label of many skin care products and anti aging products and you’ll see mineral oil listed, often under a range of different names. It’s there because it’s supposed to be a moisturizer, however mineral oil doesn’t moisturize. What it does is to form a layer of oil over the skin to prevent moisture loss. This works.

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.

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 FDA has no mandate to test either the efficacy or the safety of anti aging products on the market. You’re probably aware that big business has very little concern for the welfare of its customers, the cigarette companies are a good example of that. If they can get away with it 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.

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.

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