Ageing is something no one can avoid and so there are huge numbers of people looking for a solution to looking older. The market is does huge for sales of anti aging products. Ageing people, in most cases, don't realize that so many of the anti aging products available today contain ingredients which may be dangerous, and fragrances are a fine example.
Some estimates are that there are more than 4000 fragrances that are in use today in so many personal products including anti aging skin care products. There's nothing wrong with wanting to smell nice and anti aging products with fragrances in them sell very well. Why is that a problem if you want to smell nice?
Unfortunately most fragrances are just chemicals that are produced in a laboratory and whilst there's nothing wrong with producing chemicals that are safe to use unfortunately there are plenty of studies showing that many are not. It might scare you to know about it if you read the studies.
Not every fragrance has health implications, there are some very good fragrances made from essential oils that do not, however these are usually too expensive and the anti aging companies always opt for the cheap alternative.
There is an organization called the Cosmetic Safety Database where you can go to search individual ingredients in products. If you search fragrances there you will find that they are linked to neurotoxicity, cancer, immunotoxicity, allergies, endocrine disruption and irritation to the skin, the lungs and the eyes.
When you apply that latest moisturizer that smells so nice to your skin you are covering a reasonably large area of your skin with the chemical fragrance. Your skin absorbs the fragrance and it gets into your system just as if you ate it.
It's true that the same will apply to perfect but at least you only apply a perfume to a very small area.
If this is news to you it may come as a shock. Unfortunately so many of the beauty, personal and anti aging products that so many of us take for granted contain a wide range of chemical ingredients which are potentially dangerous and which we are not warned about. Fragrances are only the start.
Some small anti aging companies have seen an opportunity here. One in particular now commits to using no fragrances at all in it's products for this very reason. And in fact they commit to making anti aging products products that are safe enough to eat.
There is an enormous market worth billions of dollars for skin care and anti aging products and it's a case of buyer beware. There are studies showing that many of the ingredients used in these products are dangerous however the companies that make the products won't warn you about the risks.
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