Today there are a lot of products to choose from to maintain personal hygiene and enhance one’s natural beauty. Whatever comes to mind, there are lot of products to pick be it for the skin, nails, hair, teeth, and nails. Personal care products come from different sizes, variants, scents, and ingredients. All of these personal care products promise to be effective and safe for the general public’s use.
But a lot of people don’t know that some personal care products contain harmful ingredients that can harm ones health and cause irreversible damage. Here are some of the tips on how to avoid using unhealthy personal care products:
Check the label of the personal care product before purchasing it.
- Make sure that the product is still not expired. Using products that are expired can cause damage to the skin and even some of these products if used when expired tend to be toxic causing diseases like Cancer.
-See to it that the product is approved by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for safety usage.
- Check the ingredients used in making the product. Some of the chemicals used in making personal care products are bad for the health. Here are some of the harmful chemicals used to make in some personal care goods that should be avoided at all costs:
Phthalates
This is a very harmful chemical that can cause asthma and low sperm counts in males. Mothers who are using products with phthalates can have babies with cognitive challenges and have multiple physical and mental defects. Some deodorants, shampoos and soap have this compound as ingredient.
Formaldehyde
Most commonly known as formalin used in embalming, formaldehyde is used in personal care products to serve as a preserving agent. For consumers check on the label if it has quaternium-15 and diazolydinil urea, these components have formaldehyde contents in them. Formaldehyde can cause skin cancer and asthma.
Dioxane
Dioxane is mostly found on products are used to form lather like body baths, shampoo, soaps, and facial foams. Exposure to high amount of dioxane can lead to liver problems leading to death.
Fragrance
The term fragrance is labeled on products when there have been upto 4,000 number of ingredients used to make the product. Some of these can contain harmful substances that initiate the formation of cancer cells.
- Do not always believe what you read. When the product says “all natural ingredients are used in making this product”, do not automatically believe. It is best to check the ingredients if there are hazardous chemicals included.
- Avoid products that are colored with synthetic materials. Most of them can irritate the skin and cause cancer.
- Read reviews!
Lots of information about a certain products and reviews on how effective or destructive a product is can be found in the internet and print media. In this way you will have firsthand information regarding the benefits or side effects of a certain personal care product.
As consumers we must vigilant in looking after the kind of products we are using on our bodies. After all we only have one body, might as well pamper our bodies with personal products that offer benefits rather than harm.
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