Body absorbs 5lb of make-up chemicals a year

Body absorbs 5lb of make-up chemicals a year
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/21/nbeauty121.xml


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Dependence on cosmetics and toiletries means that a cocktail of 4lb 6oz of chemicals a year is absorbed into the body through the skin.
Richard Bence, a biochemist who has spent three years researching conventional products, said: "We really need to start questioning the products we are putting on our skin and not just assume that the chemicals in them are safe.

"We have no idea what these chemicals do when they are mixed together, the effect could be much greater than the sum of the individual parts." Mr Bence, an advocate of organic beauty products, believes that absorbing chemicals through the skin in more dangerous than swallowing them.

Check the labels, and do some research into what chemicals are in these products.
And if you're looking at anything considered to be a "formaldehyde precursor", you might want to think twice about using it.
Formaldehyde is used in embalming fluid! - M. R.

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