Mod­ern life exposes you to an unprece­dented vari­ety of arti­fi­cial chemicals.

And some of them show up in the prod­ucts you’re clos­est too – the skin care and cos­metic prod­ucts that you lather with, beau­tify with, smear on, or use to clean your skin.  Since you can absorb toxic chem­i­cals directly through your skin, you may be unknow­ingly expos­ing your­self to sig­nif­i­cant harm.

The issue can get quite com­plex.  In fact, the group Chem­i­cal Safe Skin Care esti­mates that an aver­age woman applies 175 dif­fer­ent chem­i­cals to her skin every day.

Here are some ques­tions your might want to ask:

• What poten­tially harm­ful chem­i­cals are in makeup and skin care products?
• Can you trust the man­u­fac­turer to use only ingre­di­ents known to be safe?
• What if you’re aller­gic or sen­si­tized to cer­tain chemicals?
• How do dif­fer­ent poten­tial tox­ins interact?
• Are prod­uct labels com­plete and accurate?
• Are prod­ucts touted as “nat­ural” or “organic” really any better?

Cos­metic Database

A patient of mine alerted me to a handy data­base that addresses these con­cerns — the Skin Deep Cos­met­ics Data­base.

Gather up all your cos­met­ics, skin and body care prod­ucts, tooth­paste, deodor­ant, and the like.  Then enter each one into the database.

Dis­cover what’s really going on and the steps you can take to pro­tect yourself.

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