Is your skin and home care harming your health?

Skin and home care products are a common part of our daily routines. But, we don’t always know what products are safe and what ingredients are harmful when it comes to our skincare and other regimens.

It can be difficult to know which products contain dangerous ingredients. To help you make smart choices in the skincare aisle, here are 6 ways that will help you determine how safe your skincare products really are:

Read the ingredients listed on the label.

Read the ingredients listed on the label.

Looking at ingredient lists is a good place to start when evaluating whether your beauty products are safe or not. Look for ingredients that you recognize, as well as those that are natural and organic.

Watch out for preservatives, colors, and parabens.

• Preservatives are synthetic chemicals that are used to keep food from spoiling. They can cause allergic reactions, and shouldn’t be ingested in large quantities.
• Parabens are a type of preservative used in cosmetics and personal care products. They’re also absorbed by your skin when you put them on, which means they enter your bloodstream through your pores! And there’s no telling how much paraben is safe for humans—but it’s probably not much at all.
• Colorants like titanium dioxide and carmine are artificial dyes that give foods their bright colors (like red), while preservatives like potassium sorbate prevent mold growth on food items so they can sit on the shelf long before being sold at the grocery store (and eventually get into our bodies).

Avoid products that contain fragrance.

Fragrance is a common allergen, and it’s often not listed on the label (even if you have allergies). Fragrances are also toxic, sometimes in surprising ways: some can damage chromosomes or cause mutations in DNA.

Since fragrances are not required to be safe, they can include chemicals that can affect your health over time or even change your hormone levels.

These are by no means the only ingredients to look out for when reading product labels. There are at least thousands more out there in food products alone.

The best starting point is to understand what each ingredient is and try to stick to the most natural ingredients possible.

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Look for independent third-party certifications such as Ecocert, Cosmebio, USDA Certified Organic, Leaping Bunny, Made Safe, and NSF International.

Look for independent third-party certifications such as Ecocert, Cosmebio, USDA Certified Organic, Leaping Bunny, and NSF International. Some of these certifications are very strict in what they allow to be used in the products they certify while others simply require that their seal is on the product label.

Companies that are serious about their ingredients will not just tout a certification but also provide information about what it means and how it was earned.

If you can’t find this information related to a specific ingredient then ask your company where it gets its ingredients from and whether or not there are any additional third-party certifications associated with them.

Look up the ingredients online to see if they are potentially harmful or not. Use databases such as EWG Skin Deep and Think Dirty.

To check if an ingredient is potentially harmful, look it up on the Internet. The Environmental Working Group Skin Deep database and Think Dirty are good places to start.

Skin Deep is a tool for consumers that allows them to search for ingredients by name or product type, get a detailed analysis of the ingredients in their products and receive recommendations for safer alternatives.

Think Dirty is another database that uses crowd-sourced information to help people avoid and better understand potentially toxic products.

Be vigilant when it comes to what you put on your skin and body!

As a consumer, it’s important to be cautious of what you put on your skin and body. When it comes to skincare, health and beauty products often contain many different ingredients that we may not recognize or know what they are exactly.

Before you buy any new product, do some research into the ingredients so that you can make an informed decision about whether or not it’s safe for use.

Conclusion

I hope that this article has helped you understand how to make more informed decisions about the products you use on your skin or in your home.