Are Your Anti Aging Products Giving You Cancer?
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.
That's not to say that all fragrances are risky, for example there are some excellent essential oils that make nice fragrances and which are safe to use. However these are usually much more expensive than the chemical alternatives and so the chemical alternatives go into those skin care products that you will see on the shelves of your store.
There is an organization called the Cosmetic Safety Database where you can go to search individual ingredients in products. If you search fragrances there you will find that they are linked to neurotoxicity, cancer, immunotoxicity, allergies, endocrine disruption and irritation to the skin, the lungs and the eyes.
When you apply that latest moisturizer that smells so nice to your skin you are covering a reasonably large area of your skin with the chemical fragrance. Your skin absorbs the fragrance and it gets into your system just as if you ate it.
It's true that the same will apply to perfect but at least you only apply a perfume to a very small area.
If this is news to you it may come as a shock. Unfortunately so many of the beauty, personal and anti aging products that so many of us take for granted contain a wide range of chemical ingredients which are potentially dangerous and which we are not warned about. Fragrances are only the start.
There is an opportunity here and some small niche companies have taken advantage of it. One now uses no fragrances at all for this exact reason and commits to making products that are safe enough to eat.
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.