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Harmful cosmetics and care products.

While protecting our bodies from various diseases, we sometimes lose sight of the things that could be the sources of our health problems. Being discriminating in nutrition, lifestyle, observing the rules of hygiene, we rarely pay attention to those everyday means that are habitually included in our life: cosmetics, perfumes and body care products.

It would seem, what threat can lip gloss, eyeshadow, body cream or shower gel pose if they are intended for external use and presumably cannot get into the digestive tract, into the blood, and therefore are safe for health?

In addition to vitamins, enzymes, natural oils, sea salts and just water, all body care products, cosmetics and perfumes contain ingredients that play the role of:

preservatives - substances that extend the shelf life of the product,
fragrances - substances that mask the unpleasant odors of the main components,
emulsifiers - substances that impart homogeneity to immiscible chemical components,
thickeners - substances that thicken, gelling liquid components to reduce their fluidity.

And also means for care and cosmetics contain:

drying agents,
alcohols,
glycerol,
petrochemical products (technical oils and fats),
antiseptics of a wide spectrum of action.

The harmful effects of cosmetics and body care products include:

in overdrying of the skin, which leads to the fastest aging of the skin instead of a rejuvenating effect,
in trauma to skin cells, which creates an entrance gate for exogenous infection,
in provoking allergic reactions that have a rather persistent effect due to the fact that it is not immediately possible to determine what exactly the substances of external action had a toxic effect on the body,
in the formation of a stable film on the skin and clogging of pores - a violation of the natural processes of the excretory function of the skin,
in provoking skin dysbiosis as a result of the action of antiseptics and preservatives, which kills opportunistic microorganisms and can disrupt the microbiocenosis of the skin, causing dangerous colonization by pathogenic microorganisms.

There are a number of useless components that do not in any way improve the properties of the skin, do not restore its structure. These substances include enzymes, proteins (collagen, elastin), extracts from placental tissue.