As a result of mercury poisoning caused by my dental amalgam I have difficulty in removing chemicals from my body. Many people will have the same problem although not necessarily because of their teeth.
Unfortunately we live in a chemical soup and toxins are everywhere. You probably check the labels on food to see what you are eating but what about everyday personal products like shampoo, deodorant and cosmetics? Do you just assume because they are on sale at your supermarket or drug store they are safe?
I did but not any more.
You see I discovered that government does not require cosmetics and other personal care products to be tested for safety. Further, the industry’s own safety review panel has assessed only 11 per cent of the 10,500 ingredients contained in health and beauty products available in stores today.
On the FDA's website, it states “Cosmetics and their ingredients are not required to undergo approval before they are sold. Manufacturers can use any ingredient, except for 10 prohibited substances, without government review.”
So what about the other 10,490?
Our skin is the largest eliminatory organ in the body. It is a two-way membrane. Toxins are eliminated through the skin via perspiration and absorbed through the skin, into the body's systemic circulation, through hair follicles and sebaceous glands (not through sweat glands). One square inch of skin contains 65 hairs, 100 sebaceous glands, and 650 sweat glands.
That means if you put a chemical compound on your skin your body is likely to absorb it. You’ve got a lot of hair follicles and sebaceous glands.
Low exposure for a long time for someone who doesn't remove chemicals well means they accumulate and that leads to health problems.
The bottom line is the more things you use, the more chemicals you absorb.
Cosmetic manufacturers are not supposed to claim that their products penetrate our skin. If they did (the products would then be labelled a ‘drug’ and be governed by much stricter regulations.
This is both good and bad:-
Good – your skin can be nourished from the outside with wonderful ingredients
Bad – some cosmetic manufacturers put certain things in their cosmetics that would never be allowed to be taken orally. They can still be absorbed into our system through the skin though.