There are a lot of ingredients in make up and skincare that you actually don’t want to put on your skin. And don’t think that by buying ´natural´ products you’re in the safe zone. Products that label themselves as natural, organic, or eco don’t actually have to follow any legal or industry rules about their ingredients.
Read MoreNot only can your body absorb ingredients through your skin, these ingredients can also enter your body through your nails. Many mainstream nail polishes contain chemicals that are toxic and even though the amount of nail polish you use is probably not big, you might not want to put any chemicals on your body, right?
Read MoreIn an earlier post I wrote about microbeads in consumer care products. Unfortunately, those are not the only petroleum-based ingredients that can be found in the products we use on a daily basis. Petrochemicals, chemical ingredients derived from petroleum, can be found with a variety of names, like paraffin, petrolatum, toluene, phenoxyethanol and mineral oil. But they can also be hidden under the umbrella of perfume or fragrance.
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