Would You Eat Your Skin Cream?

If you were shipwrecked and stranded on a desert island for weeks with no food in sight and all you managed to salvage from the wreckage was your toilet bag, would you eat your skin cream to stay alive? Ok, the chances of that happening are very slim, but we should give some thought to what we feed our skin. 

It’s important that we take the time to read the ingredients of any product that goes on our skin as it eventually ends up in our blood stream. The way you read the nutritional contents of your food items when you go grocery shopping is what is expected when shopping for skincare products. Educate yourself on the ingredients contained in these products. 

Every year our bodies absorb 2 kilograms of chemicals from chemicals found in skincare, make-up and hair products.

There are certain ingredients you should always be on the lookout for. Ideally, your skincare products should be free from synthetic chemicals and harmful ingredients. 

A study published in 2004 (Darbre, in the Journal of Applied Toxicology) detected parabens in breast tumours. The study also discussed this information in the context of the weak estrogen-like properties of parabens and the influence of estrogens on breast cancer.* Although the FDA (US Food & Drug Administration) believes that “at the present time there is no reason for consumers to be concerned about the use of cosmetics containing parabens”, it’s still better to be safe rather than sorry. 

Stick to what you know you could actually eat; if it’s going on your skin, you ARE ‘eating’ it!

For more information on ingredients to look out for in your skincare products, click HERE for a TOXIC INGREDIENTS DIRECTORY. Read this and next time you go shopping for your skincare products, think… ‘Would I eat this’? 

Have a lovely weekend.

Emma

*JOURNAL OF APPLIED TOXICOLOGY;  24, 5–13 (2004) Concentrations of Parabens in Human Breast Tumours

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