Why is important to read labels on skin care products?
One of every 24 women, 4.3 million women altogether, are exposed daily to personal care product ingredients that are known or probable reproductive and developmental toxins, linked to impaired fertility or developmental harm for a baby in the womb or a child. These statistics do not account for exposures to phthalates that testing shows appear in an estimated three quarters of all personal care products but that, as components of fragrance, are not listed on product ingredient labels (EWG et al. 2002). Just imagine what the unknown developmental consequences could be to an infant or small child with many years of growing still left to do? Toxins collect in fat cells and babies have a high percentage of fatty tissue that makes them extraordinarily susceptible to the effects of dangerous man made substances.
