People are wearing patches that pump nicotine and birth control into their bodies. If the skin is an effective conduit for medicines, it's also wide open for toxins.
What's unfortunate is that many toxins meeting your skin are applied by choice, particularly cosmetics.
According to the Environmental Working Group, the average woman uses 12 "beauty" products per day, containing about 168 ingredients.
Gloria Aparicio, a representative of NYR Organic Skin and Body Care, a natural cosmetics company, has a top five list of additives that some studies have found questionable: parabens, phthalates, BHT and BHA, petrolatum, any kind of ...
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