Most Toxic Ingredients
Use natural ingredient in your skin care like herbal extracts, natural clays to colour your products, essential oils to fragrance your products and natural waxes and oils to hydrate your skin. There is not need to use toxic ingredients in your skin and body care products. The reason skin care companies use them is because they are cheap and inexpensive to manufacture the skin care products.
Alcohol - destabilise the acid mantle and dry the skin and produce more oil making the acne worse and increases the oil flow.
Peroxide - dries the skin and destabilise the acid mantle and produces more oil making the acne worse.
Sodium Lauryl Sulphate - carcinogenic and dries the skin, destabilises the acid mantle, makes acne worse. It is a known skin irritant.
BHA (butylated hydroxyaniosole) - possible carcinogen and hormone disrupter thus making hormonal acne worse.
BTA (butylated hydroxytoluen) - consistent use of BTA has been linked to hormonal disruptions and reproduction and fertility issues.
Coal tar dyes - coal tar dyes have the potential to cause cancer and when contaminated with aluminium and heavy metals may cause damage to the brain.
DEA (diethanolamine) - DEA can cause moderate skin and eye irritation, while prolonged exposure has been linked to liver, skin, and thyroid cancers.
DBP (dibutyl phthalate) - Has been linked to hormonal disruptions and and fertility issues, as well as liver and kidney failure. Formaldehyde - known carcinogen and skin irritant.
Parabens - parabens easily penetrate the skin and have been linked to hormonal disruptions, breast cancer, increased skin aging, and DNA damage.
Artificial fragrance - irritates the skin and have been linked to as asthma, allergies, and migraine headaches.
PEG Compounds - Causes skin irritation and is a known cancer causing ingredient.
Petrolatum - is mineral oil or petroleum jelly, The European Union classifies petrolatum as a carcinogen and can also cause skin irritation and allergies.
Siloxanes - it interferes with human hormone function making hormonal acne worse and making skin oilier. Triclosan - triclosan can pass through the skin and is suspected of interfering with hormone function and is a known skin and eye irritant.
Artificial Colours - known carcinogen, skin irritant and destabilises the acid mantle, thus producing more oil on the skin
