Health and Beauty

Sunday, October 7, 2012

The Ugly Health and Beauty Products

The Ugly Health and Beauty Products

Often the beauty and personal care products we buy in our search for beauty and good health are in fact filled with toxins. The synthetic chemicals mimic estrogen and studies indicate that exposure to estrogen increases our cancer risk. Some of these chemicals are also linked to birth defects, learning disabilities and other health and beauty problems now epidemic in our society.

Using just 9 products (e.g. shampoo, conditioner, soap, deodorant, skin lotion, makeup, etc.) per day means we are using 126 chemical ingredients.

Terms like 'natural,' 'organic' and the latest buzzword, 'green' offer no guarantee of the safety of these products.

In fact the ingredients in personal care products are not overseen by the FDA. The EU bans more than 1,100 chemical ingredients but the USA has banned just 10. There is no governement standard for safety in personal care products. In fact it is the cosmetic industry that regulates itself.
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The only thing that will work in eliminating these toxins is deciding to be an educated consumer. The following 3 suggestions can help and save us a lot of money.

First, know the ingredients (list below) that are known to cause illness.Watch out specifically for phthalates - banned in many countries, parabens and petrochemicals. Check the websites listed below for which products contain these chemicals and what are the reported illnesses:
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Phthalates - according to the NRC for Women and Families, in 10/07 CA banned the use of this chemical in children's toys and childcare products.

Sodium lauryl sulfate - (aka SLS) - found in shampoos, hair conditioners, toothpaste, body washes; a strong detergent which can cause permanent damage to eyes, esp. in children, skin rashes, hair loss, mouth ulcerations, flaking skin. When used with other ingredients can form nitrosamines which are carcinogenic. Can lodge in the heart, liver, lungs and brain.

Additional chemicals to watch out for - and research - are:

methyl, propyl, butyl, and ethyl paraban

imidazolindyl urea

petrolatum

propylene glycol

pvp/v copolymer

stearalkonium chloride

synthetic colors

synthetic fragrance

triethanolamine

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The Environmental Working Group (ewg - see website below) performed lab tests on twenty teenaged girls between the ages of 14-19 and detected 16 chemicals in urine and blood samples.

In all my research it seems that the highest concern products are:

hair color and bleach

hair relaxers

nail polish

skin lightener

nail treatments

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The Ugly Health and Beauty Products

The Ugly Health and Beauty Products

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Health and Beauty Tips

A glass full of fresh fruit juice instead a can of chilled cold drink a healthy balanced diet rather than having junk and fast food, a regular exercise routine in place of spending a lavish and sedentary lifestyle will definitely give healthy, energetic and active body and happy life to you. By adopting this regimen you will not only increase your years of life but also feel a positive change in your attitude and behavior while by following healthy balanced diet and exercise routine you can enhance in & out beauty of yours. Moreover, there are number of health care and beauty care products that are available in the market in order to give you real beauty from head to toe.

Pollution directly affects your skin and makes it dirty, also creates lots of skin and hair problems, to defend your skin and hair from these harmful factors, always go with branded beauty care products in spite of choosing some local brand due to their low prices.

Beauty care products are basically divided & assembled for three 3 most important part of your body; skin, hair and Nail. A large variety of skin moisturizing creams, wrinkle free creams, fairness and glove producing skin creams, number of face wash and scrubs, cleanses and toner and all items of your make up kit are available under the different brand names. So, that you can choose any of one according to your needs skin type but, don't change your beauty care product frequently because it may harm your skin and always try the product on a small part of your hand, just to check the result that how your skin respond to that particular product. Similarly for hair care product shampoos, hair gels, colors, oils should be checked first otherwise it may cause hair-fall, dandruff or other allergic problems and in result may damage your hair. Nail paints, creams and oils should also be checked quality wise. Always check the manufacturing and expiry date of beauty care products before making a final choice.

A little change in your dietary preferences may lead you healthy, happy and beautiful life, like take more raw fruits and vegetables and fresh fruit juices rather than having preservative added fruit juices and ready to made food. Because all these processed food stuff harm your health due to contained high fat and calories amount that increases the risk of heart and other health diseases. Even a lavish, luxurious and sedentary lifestyle now days causing some life threatening diseases, so if one wants to remain active, so adopting a regular health regimen with proper following of a balanced healthy diet would be beneficial.

In addition, health products and Beauty care products help out you to protect and maintain your health and beauty in this polluted environment. You can check out the list of all brands, their varieties in products and can compare the prices online as well on various beauty and health care products web portals to make a healthy, smart and right choice, because it's the matter of your health and beauty that needs no compromise.

Health and Beauty Tips

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Hand in hand with health and beauty

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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Men's Health and beauty

Men's Health and beauty

what on earth do a beaver and a top hat have to do with job-related illness?

"He's as mad as a hatter..." Those of you who were blessed with a British granny may have heard this expression before. Perhaps, while reading Lewis Carol's Alice In Wonderland, you wondered why the character in his book was called the "Mad" (meaning crazed or crazy) Hatter.

The innocent seeming beaver in the photo above, was, in fact, the cause of much unintentional anguish, as was the equally innocent but possibly more culpable top hat.

As a Canadian familiar with my country's history, I realize we owe much of the initial exploration of this land to the early fur traders, in search of riches to send back to Europe.

The ubiquitous beaver provided such a wonderfully thick pelt, and was so readily available, it soon became the mainstay of the fur trade.

I first heard about printer's disease, or printmakers' disease when I took my first studio course in the art of making prints. Though printmaking is no longer a strictly male domain, I have included it here because few women worked as print-makers until modern times. health and beauty
Often what we refer to as a "print" is a work of art that has been reproduced from an original work by photographic or mechanical means. Strictly speaking, these are, in fact, called reproductions.

Printmaking is a form of reproduction, true, but one that relies on the artistry and technique of the print-maker to achieve its end result. In the art of printmaking, prints may be a one-off item - one that will never be reproduced. Most often though, the original is meant to be reproduced, and has been created specifically to be reproduced in print form. The true art of printmaking relies on the artist's ability to reproduce the work, down to the last tiny mark, as exactly in the first print pulled as in the last. health and beauty

Prints can be made through a variety of means, from hand cut plates, often using linoleum or wooden blocks which are carved with the image and then inked. The print-maker will then apply a sandwich of paper or cloth and run the block through a printing press to force the ink onto the paper or cloth to be printed. The resulting image is referred to as a "wood cut" or "lino cut" after the surface into which the image was carved.

Another common type of printing process involves silk-screen printing. In this method, various blocking substances are applied to a screen. Then the screen is placed over the paper or cloth to be imprinted, ink is applied and "pulled" across the screen with a squeegee. If another color is to be applied, the imprinted material must be allowed to dry, and the blocking medium removed or altered for the next color to be applied. This process continues until the image is complete.

There are many other steps involved, and many other types of printmaking, including acid etch, photo-lithography, and stone lithography, or stone etch which remains my personal favorite, as well as the least toxic of the lot.

All of these processes involve either carving or etching a design into a surface - metal, stone, wood, lino - so that it will hold the ink that will transfer the design many times over onto cloth or paper. Newspaper printing used to use both typesetting and printmaking processes to produce your morning paper. All these processes involve the use of chemicals, some of which are extremely toxic, including the weak acid solution so often used to etch metal plates.

Not only are the chemicals and inks used to create the prints toxic, but the substances used to clean the plates are a witches brew of pathogens, carcinogens, teratagens, and mutagens.

It was not uncommon for the print-makers of old to loose all their teeth, and chronically spit blood as their jaw bones and the cartilage in their nasal passages were gradually eaten away by continues exposure to acid fumes. The damage to their lungs and internal organs caused terrible agonizing deaths, and one wonders, given the life expectancy and painful end awaiting them, why anyone would ever take up such an occupation. This continued into the early twentieth century, until some safety measure began to evolve. health and beauty
Quickly indoctrinated into the safety-first mind-set, we routinely wore non-solvent impermeable gauntlets, breathing gear and worked under a fume hood while using some of the chemicals, which included benzene, toluene, and hydrochloric acid, to name a few.

Happily this is no longer the case, nowadays. Many modern inks are far less toxic than even the ones I learned to use, and great strides are being made in health and safety. Studios are routinely equipped with massive ventilation and air purifying systems, and all drying racks are required to be situated under fume hoods. Sadly though, print-makers still fall ill to many diseases such as Hashimoto's Disease, an endocrine disorder, only now being linked to long term exposure to some of the substances they routinely use to create their art. health and beauty