There are some health problems that are known to be caused by chemical fragrances.
Everybody wants to smell nice, and there is no problem with, unless smelling nice puts your health at risk.
Why in the world smelling nice put your health at risk?
Because, in most cases, people to seek to smell good by using products which contain chemicals fragrances. There is a wealth of products containing chemical fragrances including our skin care product, deodorants, shampoos, soaps and much more.
A fragrance is just a chemical that smells nice. Whilst it would be wonderful to think that those beautiful perfumes are just essence of roses that is far from the truth.
A perfume or a fragrance is something that has been produced by a chemist in a lab. It’s smells good but just like any other chemical it may not be good for your health.
And in fact it’s even more subtle and this, because fragrances are not listed on the label of your skin care products. Or if they are they are just listed under a generic terms such as “fragrance”.
This is because the personal products industry has been able to persuade the government that the “trade secrets” involved in producing chemicals should not be disclosed to protect the secret ingredients that are in those fragrances.
And even if you understand the risks involved in buying personal products with fragrance you can still trip over because there are products which are labeled as “unscented”, but which still contain what are called “masking fragrances” that are there to cover up smell of other chemicals.
There are some of the health problems that are known to be caused by chemical fragrances.
1. According to the Scientific Committee on Cosmetic Products and Non-Food Products in the EU one in somewhere around 50 people can be hypersensitive to chemical fragrances. This hypersensitivity can include allergic reactions including damage to the immune system.
2. Chemical fragrances are one of the top 5 causes allergic reactions in people including asthma.
3. The US National Academy of Sciences, as far back as 1986, identified chemical fragrances as a neurotoxin which can lead to brain damage.
Synthetic musks are very common chemical fragrance. Studies have demonstrated that people who use large amounts of personal products which contain fragrances often have very high levels of synthetic musks in their body.
And new studies are even finding that chemical fragrances can be found in the cord blood of newborn infants, indicating that these chemicals are getting into the bodies of our children before they are born.
The best natural face skin care products do not contain any fragrances. This is deliberate for the reasons outlined above.
If you want to smell good there’s a number of things you can do. One, for women, is to use perfume.
Perfume is also a chemical fragrance, however a little dab on a fingertip is usually enough. And if you’re smart that dab should go on your clothes rather than on your skin.
The problem with personal products such as skin care products is that they are often applied to large areas of the skin and the chemicals, when applied to the skin, can simply be absorbed through the skin. Studies have shown that substances applied to the skin can be found in the blood within a relatively short time.
And if there is a chemical fragrance in that skin care product it too is absorbed into the bloodstream.
So if you’re seriously concerned about high quality skin care, but worried about the effects of not only the chemical fragrances used in modern skin care products but also the other dangerous ingredients, including petrochemical ingredients, then use high quality natural skin care products that do not use any fragrances, artificial chemicals or dangerous ingredients.
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