If you are looking for the best investment in your health, a good place to start is natural skin care. These will be products you will probably be using everyday, so it is best to make sure they are as healthy as can be. This article will focus on informing you about the potential dangers of fragrances and therefore help you make an informed decision about your next natural skin care purchase.
The advertisers of these products may try to make you think otherwise, but fragrances do not come form flowers or anything else natural. Over 4,000 chemicals are used in fragrances, most of which are wastage products from the petroleum industry. A few of them are known to be result in birth defects, cancer, infertility and brain and nervous system damage which can include Alzheimer’s, Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s Disease.
Because of the large number of products that are now scented, the percentage of individuals who are made sick by fragrances is steadily on the rise. Babies and children are especially vulnerable along with people who are on the recovery from disease or illness. Chemical fragrances can be found everywhere: fabric softeners, laundry detergent, dish washing liquids, sunscreen, lotions, incense, moisturisers, lip balm and almost every personal care product. It is also found in many products that are labelled as unscented because it is already in a compound when that compound is added into the product.
This exposure to scented products can result in the persistent symptoms that baffle people, such as long term pains and aches, allergies, headaches, swollen glands and lymph tenderness, memory issues, heart palpitations, asthma, nausea and more severe neurological issues like dizziness and fainting. It is said that exposure in adults and children can lead to learning and behavioural problems, attentional disorders in addition to the above mentioned symptoms. With prolonged exposure to chemical fragrances and other dangerous chemicals you can develop Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Disease. When you have this disorder, even the slightness scent of a toxic chemical makes you so sick that you cannot operate. It can seriously affect your ability to interact with the rest of the world.
It is only normal to assume that these products must be safe or the ‘government’ would not allow them to be sold, but this is not so. The personal care product industry is not supervised. It is not a requirement of the TGA for manufacturers to register their products or to provide safety data on the ingredients that are used in them. They are allowed to put in as many dangerous chemicals as they want. A public reaction is the only thing that will stop them.
The products you use while you have a shower are particularly poisonous since you are using them with the hot water which opens up your pores, thereby allowing easy and quick access to your bloodstream. A glimpse at the ingredients contained in your shampoo may be surprising. There are more than 100 toxic chemicals normally used in shampoo, and most brands contain 20-30 of them in conjunction with chemical fragrances and dyes. Using natural skin care products can help avoid this.