Top Ingredients to Avoid in Personal Care Products

May 18
08:13

2015

Jason Kassel, PhD

Jason Kassel, PhD

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Your personal care products have to take care of you. You expect them to leave you feeling better, to leave you happy. That is their job, after all. It is their job to make you beautiful, to make you healthy, and to make you feel better as a whole. The only problem is that some products fail to do that. The ingredients in many of the products out there affect the quality and effectiveness due to their side effects.

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Irritation,Top Ingredients to Avoid in Personal Care Products Articles putting your health in danger, and causing problems with your skin are only a few of the ways these ingredients can harm or bother you. Avoiding them is the best way to keep yourself safe.

There is a long list of ingredients to avoid when shopping for personal care products. Anything with alcohol, parabens, or phthalates in the names, as examples, are ingredients you do not want. There is also fragrance, triclosan, dyes, placenta, and so much more. The list goes on, and the one constant is that they are dangerous. Some may cause minor irritation, while others are a carcinogen and affect the organs. The use of these ingredients will leave you feeling far worse than you would have otherwise. In many cases, they in no way make up for any promised effects or benefits of the personal care products themselves.

Learn as much as you can about the ingredients used. Eliminating only one is not going to help. The problem continues for a variety of product types and ingredients. Even if you were to stop using phthalates or alcohol in your personal care products, you would still find numerous other ingredients that, too, get in the way of your health and comfort. Know which ingredients are in which products that you use. Since every type of personal care product uses dangerous ingredients, you have a lot to look over and remember.

A good choice is to go natural. Typically, natural products will not use the ingredients that can harm you. These ingredients are usually synthetic or undesirable for manufacturers of natural products, leading them to use natural alternatives. You can find simple, effective, and chemical and toxin free products on the market that do not use any of the dangerous ingredients so commonly found today. You get all of this without sacrificing your health and the results that you want from these products, too. It is the best option for everyone.