Why is Lowering Your Chemical Body Burden Important?

• It is important to lower both the amount of chemicals that you are exposed to in your cosmetics and the hazards of the chemicals used.
• Small exposures can add up when they come from many different sources and products that you use.
• We do not know the effects of multiple additive exposures over a lifetime.
• For example, the Cosmetic Ingredient Review, a research organization sponsored by the cosmetics industry, says that parabens are safe at the levels used in cosmetics.
• However, what if you are getting parabens in 10 of the products you use?  Do the effects add up to be more of a health concern?
• Women of child-bearing age are especially susceptible, because they tend to use a lot of beauty products in the teens and twenties.
• Also many chemicals can be passed on to an unborn child.

Keep It Clean!

Michele