Friday, March 18, 2011

Choosing Cleaner Products to Clean our Bodies

Our skin is the body’s largest organ, and if we are exposing it to chemicals, the skin soaks them up transdermally. Once we get our food intake under control and from a more natural and organic place, it’s time to think about what we are rubbing on our bodies.

Some of the worst offenders are the chemical emulsifiers used in cosmetics, called PEGs (the full name is polyethylene glycol, which is seldom written out). Anything that lists a PEG has been ethoxylated and may be toxic. Look for the group of letters “eth” (from ethoxylated), as well as “mea,” “dea,” and “tea,” in ingredients to identify PEGs.

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