Hazardous substances and dubious cosmetic ingredients

The following substances are also very dangerous to women's health:

• Toluene - petrochemical solution is similar to the solvents in paints. This substance causes a whole bunch of disorders related to the immune system, developmental disorders, and reproductive function, toxic effects on nerve cells and a host of other negative side effects. Toluene vapor entering the respiratory tract during pregnancy dangerous for a fetus, and may cause various diseases.
• Formaldehyde: formaldehyde or toluene sulfonamide is a resin that is widely used in many means to strengthen nails Strengthen nails - avoid negative external effects . This ingredient is very dangerous, try to avoid products, which includes this component. Like almost all the previous ones, it provokes cancer, developmental disorders and the reproductive organs.

If you are not able to give up nail polish, choose a safe and non-toxic agent. There are paints and tools to care for nails with a composition of water-based without toxic dyes. Also it is better to abandon the traditional nail polish remover and replace it with safer alternative formulations on an organic basis.

If etiquette means you are using or intend to purchase, you will not be able to read a good half of the ingredients, the chance that most of them unsafe for health, is very large.

Ideally, it is best to choose the means of a simple, more or less familiar components similar to those that we normally eaten.

Questionable items:

• Phthalates (salts or esters of phthalic acid) are widely used in perfumes and nail care Nail care - can be a sensible man, and think about the beauty of nails . Causes a disturbance in the development and the human reproductive system.
• Side and intermediate oil and petrol products, which include carcinogenic 1, 4-dioxane, found in some children's shampoos, liquid paraffin and tar that make up the many lip glosses, eye shadows Shadow - matte or crisp?   and many other cosmetic products. These and other intermediate oil products should be avoided.
• Antimony: This ingredient is very common in cosmetics for the eyes, in ink, pencil, eyeliner. The structure of this ingredient often includes impurities of lead, aluminum and other heavy metals. After contact with antimony have been documented cases of poisoning of children with disorders of the nervous activity, scattering attention and behavioral problems. Poisoning and antimony compounds belonging to certain types of cosmetics for the eyes, can cause seizures, anemia, kidney failure and other disorders in humans.
• Hydroquinone - whitening ingredient used for skin lightening and removing age spots. Like many other dangerous substances hydroquinone contributes to cancer, and causes abnormal development and the human reproductive system. Also, this component is associated with the occurrence of ochronosis - disease affecting the human skin.

Do not be lazy to read the label on the part of the means by which you intend to use, be careful, try to choose the most natural and harmless means.

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