Skin Anti-Aging Solutions

As promised, we’ve been looking into harmful, toxic and carcinogenic ingredients commonly found in skin care and beauty products.

Here are some to start with:

Ingredients to avoid

• DMDM hydantoin and Imidazolidinyl urea toxic contaminants
• Fragrance and dyes allergies, cancer, nervous system
• Methylchloroisothiazolinone and Methylisothiazolinone allergies, nervous system
• Parabens or “-paraben” hormone effects
• “PEG” and “-eth” toxic contaminants
• Sodium lauryl or laureth sulfate skin damage, toxic contaminants
• Triclosan and triclocarban thyroid and environmental concerns
• Triethanolamine (TEA) allergies, toxic contaminants

Products to avoid

• Anti-aging creams with lactic, glycolic, AHA, and BHA acids
• Hair dyes with ammonia, peroxide, p-phenylenediamine, diaminobenzene; all dark permanent hair dyes
• Liquid hand soaps with triclosan
• Nail polish and removers with formaldehyde
• Skin lighteners with hydroquinone

This list is from FoxNews.com

We have more coming and no, you don’t have to be a chemist to understand it.

Also coming soon is a little bit off the normal subject line, but so alarming that we thought you needed to know: It’s about how teens are especially vulnerable and the common products they’re using that could put them at risk.

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