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Are Cosmetics Causing your Skin to Age?
Do you even know what you are putting on your skin?
There are thousands of cosmetic lotions, perfumes, and beauty creams on the market today. Regardless of what you pay for these products, certain toxic chemicals in most of these products can lead to wrinkles, rashes, acne, premature age spots, and problem skin. How can this be? Aren’t these creams marketed to help the skin?
The skin is the largest organ of the body and is a very quick absorber. In fact, it has been said that the skin absorbs nutrients 10 times more than the stomach. Many cosmetic companies state this isn’t true and that their ingredients can’t pass a certain skin layer, but the proof is in “the patch.” There are patches for people to stop smoking, for pain/aspirin, birth control and even repairing stem cells. They do this because many of the patch’s substance can be absorbed into the body within seconds to get the desired results.
Read the Label
Gather all your skincare products, perfumes, and cleansers together and check out the ingredients. Here are the categories the ingredients fall into and some popular substances to avoid.
Acids, Alkalies, Buffers & Neutralizers — This has to do with the pH or how acidic or alkaline the product is — because if the product is too acidic or alkaline, it can irritate the…
