Ageing is a product that everyone in so many people who are gradually ageing are looking for a way to look younger. So as a result the market is just enormous for all sorts of anti aging products. Ageing people, quite reasonably, want to look better but aren’t aware that there are so many ingredients in anti aging products that may be risky to their health. Fragrances are an 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?!

The problem is that most fragrances are chemicals produced in the laboratory. There’s nothing inherently wrong with chemicals produced in the laboratory as long as they are safe for us to use however the reality is that studies have shown that many fragrances have potentially damaging health effects which might scare you if you were aware of them.

That’s not to say that all fragrances are risky, for example there are some excellent essential oils that make nice fragrances and which are safe to use. However these are usually much more expensive than the chemical alternatives and so the chemical alternatives go into those skin care products that you will see on the shelves of your store.

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 just the same with perfumes but when you use a perfume you use it only on a very small area of skin.

This may be a shock to you. Sadly there are hundreds or even thousands of personal and beauty products such as anti aging products that so many of us use which contain ingredients that have health implications about which we are not warned. It’s not just fragrances.

And there’s an opportunity here for small companies and one in particular has seen this opportunity and now produces anti aging products with no fragrances At all and no other potentially harmful ingredients.

The market for antiaging skin products is worth billions of dollars and it’s a case of buyer beware. Though there may be studies showing the risks to so many ingredients in anti aging products the skin care companies are unlikely to warn you about them.

I write about issues such as these are my website and try to point you towards safer (and more effective) natural anti aging skin care products that are good alternatives.

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