You decided to take a luxurious bubble bath to relax and you’ve put your favorite bath product in the water so that all the bubbles could cover your naked body. And now you can really relax!
Unfortunately, you will be making a very bad decision in adding this bath product to your tub.
It doesn’t stop there. If you also enjoy using shampoo that gives a rich lather or shaving cream with a lot of foam, although these examples may seem totally innocent, you are literally exposing yourself to serious health dangers.
Unless it specifically says on the label that it does not, most of these products contain sodium Lauryl Sulfate and Sodium Laureth Sulfate that are industrial cleaners effective enough to scrub your garage floor.
These compounds have been prove to cause cancer if used over a long period of time. These compounds stay in your body for up to 5 days. Do you ever go 5 days before your next shower?
Of course not. So when does your body get a break? Never!
We know that our skin is the largest organ of our body and studies have shown that these compounds easily penetrate through the skin to go and build up levels in the heart, liver, lungs and brain.
It seems that putting chemicals on our skin is far worse than eating them. That’s because enzymes in our saliva and stomach will help break down these toxins and flush them out of the body.
However, if the chemicals enter through the skin, it by-passes this filtration process and accumulates over time.
There are thousands of these chemicals used in our personal care products and the majority have never been tested for safety.
Let’s look at just one of the chemicals: Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS)
- If you soap in your eyes, SLS can penetrate your eyes and other tissues related to your brain, heart and liver.
- SLS can produce carcinogens that make your body absorb nitrates. You may be applying a good rubbing of cream to your arms but you are also applying nitrates.
- SLS will leave your skin stipped of oils and moisture causing cracking and severe inflammation of derma-epidermal tissues because it breaks down the protein of our skin.
- It has been known to cause skin inflammation in most people even 6 hours after application with a worse effect after 49 hours and getting slightly less after 3 days.
- SLS can also damage DNA as it causes cellular damage.
All in all, it is up to us to use products that omit the use of the cancer causing compounds and it all starts by cleansing the body of the toxic chemicals and then go on to using skin products that rely on natural and effective ingredients that nourish our skin rather than make it a toxic dumping ground.
Tags: SLS, sodium lauryl sulphate, toxic bath, toxic skin care, toxins
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