Can fragrances in skin care products damage your health?

Everyone likes to smell nice. There’s nothing at all wrong with that, I do too. However sometimes smelling nice can be a little risky.

How so? Well read on and you’ll find out a little more.

Fragrances are all around us. Whether it’s your soaps, your perfumes, your skin care products or any one of a range of other personal and beauty products, nowadays everything seems to come with a fragrance.

It would be lovely to think that a fragrance was made from essence of rosehip or something natural like that. Unfortunately that’s a long way from the truth. You see fragrances are just chemicals that happen to smell good. They are usually produced by a chemist in a laboratory, and they are no different from any of the other chemicals found in so many of our personal products.

Fragrances are recognised as posing a risk, or a potential risk, to human health. As far back as 1986 the US National Academy of Sciences recognised the potential for fragrances to cause harm to your health and in particular recognised fragrances as a potential neurotoxin that could lead to brain damage.

Estimates by the European Union Scientific Committee on Cosmetic Products and Non-Food Products are that somewhere around 2 percent of people may well be allergic to chemical fragrances.

Chemical fragrances are one of the main allergens that can cause allergic reactions in some people including asthma.

Perhaps now you’re starting to get the picture. Fragrances are just chemicals. The vast majority of them have never been tested for safety when used on people. Like just about all the other chemicals which we apply to our skin when we use modern skin care products and other personal products such as cosmetics, once applied to the skin they are absorbed into your body and can be found in the bloodstream in a relatively short period of time.

Fragrances are totally unnecessary in skin care products, for obvious reasons now that you understand a little more about them. And for this reason the best natural skin care products do not have any fragrances in them at all. They are specifically left out for all the reasons stated above.

It’s not necessary to have fragrances in just about everything you use on your body. Whilst of course we don’t want to smell bad the levels of fragrances now present in so many products can pose a risk to your health.

Not only that but many of the chemicals used as fragrances are not even listed by their chemical name on the labels of the bottles of product because the make-up of these chemicals is a so-called “trade secret” and so the companies that make them are not required to disclose them. So no one really knows what they are.

One of the problems with fragrances in personal products such as skin care products is that many women apply them every single day to their whole face, neck and often body. So the fragrances are spread over a large area of skin, and sit there until absorbed into the body.

As we say there is nothing wrong with smelling nice. Whilst the fragrances in modern perfume are no different to those in skin care products a perfume is usually only applied with a small dab onto a tiny area of skin. This is much better than smearing chemical fragrances over much of your body.

And even better is to use a perfume on your clothes rather than your skin. That way they can’t do any harm at all.

So remember, whilst there’s nothing wrong with smelling good, how you do so can have its risks. Avoid all skin care products and other products which contain fragrances, and if you want to smell nice dab a little perfume onto your clothes.

And use high quality natural skin care products produced by a company that understands the risks inherent in fragrances along with a wide range of other chemical ingredients commonly found in mainstream skin care products today. Read the rest of this entry

Surely skin care products can’t be dangerous? Or can they?

That may seem like a very strange question to you. After all, how could skin care products possibly be dangerous? They’re just there to make our skin healthier aren’t they?

If it’s news to you that your skin care products could be dangerous then you absolutely must watch the video below. It talks mainly about cosmetics, but all the same applies to anti aging skin care products and other personal products such as soaps, shampoos, deodorants and much more.

Warning. You might find it a little scary. And after you’ve watched it you might also be interested in learning more. If so then you can read much more about skin care products and the dangerous ingredients that go into them on our page about natural skin care products.

Or if you’d just like to buy safe and effective skin care products that use only known safe natural ingredients then click here.

Was that an eye opener or what? There are organisations that have been fighting against the growing tide of suspect or downright dangerous ingredients found routinely in our personal products. One if the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics.

But they’re fighting against the weight of millions of dollars of corporate money poured into mass marketing and advertising all designed to convince you that the big name anti aging and skin care products are the finest way to keep aging at bay. Sadly they’re not. Read the rest of this entry