Don't Forget The Skin: Our Largest Organ

Many people work hard to purchase healthy options and non-GMO food for ourselves and our families.  I work hard to nourish my body with quality ingredients.  Until recently I did not realize that this included my skin.  Skin is the largest organ in our bodies.  Whatever we put on our skin absorbs into our body in 26 seconds or less.  Don't believe me?  Put a crushed piece of garlic between your toes, you will taste and smell it within the 26 seconds.  Go ahead...you know you want to try it.

Many of the products that I was using contained parabens.  What is so bad about that?  99% of breast cancer cells contain parabens in them.  It is also linked to infertility in both men and women.  It has estrogen like qualities and confuses our hormones.  United States standard allows over 1,000 chemicals that are banned in Europe.  

Mineral oil is the second most aging thing for the skin, (the sun is first) it creates a barrier and doesn't let your skin breathe.  So why would the cosmetic industry put this in their products?  It's cheap.

The next cheap thing that is added is rendered products.  If you are vegetarian you want to stay away from this.  This could be listed as tallow, lauric acid, or stearic acid (among many others).  This is animal by product that is added as a cheap filler.  The average U.S. woman ingests 5lbs of rendered product in her lifetime.  If the product was safe that would be fine, but most of the rendering comes from road kill, large meat processing plants and euthanized animals.  So there is no telling what kind of chemicals, antibiotics and hormones that could be in the rendered product.

If you would like information on products that do not have these ingredients in them feel free to email me at beckyeggert@gmail.com.  I will get you information.