Healthy Natural Skin

Wednesday December 21st
What Exactly Is In Your Firming Body Wash? Is It Safe?
If you are using a firming body wash, you have to be extra careful about what exactly is in it. Why, you may ask? Let me explain. We are absorbing chemicals every day in what we eat and touch and also in what we smear all over our skin.

This is a fact of life. But, in a way, the chemicals we imbibe through food and drink are much less harmful because we use enzymes and other digestive processes to break them down and they are also excreted from the body quickly.

But with skin, we actually absorb about 70% of the chemicals into the bloodstream and there is no guarantee that these will be excreted. There are no filters or other barriers to block them. In fact, some of them tend to lodge in the tissues and cause damage. They can disrupt the endocrine system and even cause cancer. So, why risk it?

After all, if you are liberally applying a firming body wash, it is better to make sure that the ingredients are all perfectly natural and that any chemicals in the mix are perfectly harmless. Now try telling that to many cosmetic companies and they will say that all this is a load of nonsense and that the chemicals seed are within the safety limits.

Well, just in case you are sceptical about all this, let me give you a few facts and figures which may actually shock you out of your complacency. We use about 9 personal care products every day which contain no less than 126 different chemicals. All the chemicals used in cosmetics and in personal care products are not toxic of course but the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health estimates that 900 of them are!

That means that we are in contact with some of these almost on a daily basis and the risk is even greater when we are covering our skin with a so called natural body firming cream.

We need to look at the labels very carefully and make sure that SLS, parabens, phthalates, mineral oils and various alcohols are not in the mix.

Now what should be the natural ingredients in a body wash? Well, if it contains wakame, an extract from an algae, you are on the right track as this can help to preserve our levels of hyaluronic acid. That is what keeps our skin supple and smooth. Then we need some of Xtend TK substance which is the nearest thing we can get to a sort of functional keratin, that can really get to work on rejuvenating skin cells and ensure that we have firm skin. No nasty chemicals either.

If this is the sort of firming body wash that you have been looking for, why not click through to the main site so that you can find out more? You will wonder why nobody ever told you all this but you do not even have to thank me!