| Did you know that your skin is the largest | | | | cause breast cancer. |
| organ of your body? Did you know that | | | | |
| medical research shows that 60% or more of | | | | While there are skin care products that claim |
| what you put on you skin would enter the | | | | there products are "all natural" or |
| blood stream? | | | | "anti-aging" they may still contain |
| | | | ingredients that are harmful and promote |
| I don't know if you have noticed, but the | | | | breakdown of the skin. Just because it says |
| trend of the pharmaceutical companies | | | | it is all natural does not mean that it has |
| offering prescriptions in a patch or gel form | | | | no preservatives. There are natural |
| has increased due to the truth of what you | | | | preservatives also but many of these still |
| put on the skin enters the body. | | | | breakdown the skin and cause the skin to |
| | | | actually age 3 times faster. |
| To date there are over ten thousand chemicals | | | | |
| used as ingredients in skin care products | | | | You would think that behind all the hype of |
| that we use everyday. The National Institute | | | | these products they would promote healthy, |
| of Occupational Safety that 900 of the 10,000 | | | | vibrant skin but did you know that; |
| chemicals were unsafe and not all of the | | | | |
| ingredients are tested as of yet. Out of the | | | | Arbonne- Nutrimen C Reality Day Cream |
| 900 unsafe chemicals found European countries | | | | |
| have banned 400 of them but many of these can | | | | Avon- Anew Ultimate Sin Transforming Cream |
| still be found on our grocery and drug store | | | | |
| shelves. | | | | Origins- Look Alive Vitality Moisture Cream |
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| Here is a list of the dirty dozen chemicals | | | | Clarins- Moisture Quenching Hydra-Balance |
| found in our daily use products. | | | | |
| | | | Clinique- Repairware Intensive Night Lotion |
| Sodium Laureth Sulfate | | | | |
| | | | Neutrogena Pore Refining Daily Moisturizerall |
| Petrolatum (Vasaline) | | | | contain at least 2 of the dirty dozen items |
| | | | that you DO NOT want in your skin care with |
| Propylparaben | | | | three of them contain five or more parabens. |
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| Ethylparaben | | | | Men may think they are exempt from this |
| | | | problem because most do not use skin care as |
| Methylparaben | | | | in lotions but if you are using aftershave |
| | | | and shaving cream, read the ingredients on |
| Mineral Oil | | | | the back and compare to the list of the dirty |
| | | | dozen. |
| Coal Tar | | | | |
| | | | When choosing a skin care or skin care system |
| Cocamide DEA/Lauramide DEA | | | | you should look to see if it is; preservative |
| | | | free, anti-aging, fragrance free, colorant |
| Talc | | | | free, allergy tested, suits all skin types, |
| | | | non-comedogenic (will not clog the pores), No |
| Toluene | | | | animal testing done, Opthamologist tested |
| | | | (for eye creams), and will give you visible |
| Triethanolamine | | | | and real results. |
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| Formaldehyde | | | | Be aware of what you are using on your skin. |
| | | | Over the past fifty years there have been |
| Isobutylparaben. | | | | over 81,000 chemicals introduced to our air, |
| | | | water, and items we use everyday and only a |
| All these ingredients and more that are not | | | | percentage of them have been tested for |
| listed here, as reported on | | | | toxicity. |
| searchforthecause.org, have been linked to | | | | |
| potentially causing toxic breakdown that can | | | | Be a label reader! |
| lead to skin cancer and have the potential to | | | | |