Can Your Anti Aging Products Kill You?
Ageing is something no one can avoid and so there are huge numbers of people looking for a solution to looking older. The market is doeshuge for sales of anti aging products. Ageing people, in most cases, don’t realise that so many of the anti aging products available today contain ingredients which may be dangerous, and fragrances are a fine example.
Estimates are that there are some around 4000 different fragrances used in so many of the personal products that we use today including antiaging skin products. After all everyone wants to smell nice and it’s well known that adding a fragrance to a personal product helps it sell. So what’s the problem with smelling nice when you’re applying the latest anti aging skin care product?
Unfortunately most fragrances are just chemicals that are produced in a laboratory and whilst there’s nothing wrong with producing chemicals that are safe to use unfortunately there are plenty of studies showing that many are not. It might scare you to know about it if you read the studies.
Of course not every fragrance carries health risks. There are many essential oils that do not, however these are very expensive and the chemical alternatives are way cheaper. So that’s what skin care companies use.
If you search the Cosmetic Safety Database you’ll see that fragrances are linked to cancer, immunotoxicity and neurotoxicity, allergies, disruption of the endocrine system, irritation to the eyes and skin and lungs and more.
If you bought the latest bestselling ageing moisturizer you will probably use it over a reasonably large area of your skin. And your skin will absorb the fragrance just like you ate it.
It’s just the same with perfumes but when you use a perfume you use it only on a very small area of skin.
All this may be a shock for you. It’s a sad fact that so many personal, beauty and anti aging skin care products that so many of us use every single day contain chemical ingredients that may well be dangerous to your health and which you are not warned about.It’s not just fragrances, there’s many more examples.
And there’s an opportunity here for small companies and one in particular has seen this opportunity and now produces anti aging products with no fragrances At all and no other potentially harmful ingredients.
The market for antiaging skin products is worth billions of dollars and it’s a case of buyer beware. Though there may be studies showing the risks to so many ingredients in anti aging products the skin care companies are unlikely to warn you about them.
I write a website to educate about the risks of ingredients in modern personal products including anti aging skin care products and attempt to point people towards safe and effective alternative natural anti aging skin care products.
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