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Skin Resistance: A Green Magazine's Skin Care Concept

The skin is the largest organ in the body, helping to preserve the body's moisture and our first line of defense against foreign influences. The skin also absorbs tiny fat-soluble ingredients, which enter the body and become integrated into the bloodstream and become part of our body. But at the same time, the harmful chemical ingredients of the product can also be absorbed by the body, causing damage to the body. Usually, those chemical ingredients used to extend the shelf life and fragrance are the most vigilant parts.

Skin care concept of Pure Green Magazine

Canadian lifestyle magazine Pure Green Magazine focuses on introducing green, environmentally friendly and sustainable lifestyles, telling green individual life stories, and supporting the sale of beautiful green innovative products. This beautifully designed and unique magazine provides trendy life inspiration for environmental practitioners.

Celine Mackay, the editor-in-chief of the magazine, is a practitioner of green lifestyle. Recently, she launched the column "Head to Toe", which aims to give a set of practical and life-friendly green beauty life plans for the whole body. The first article is about head-to-toe skin care.

With a background in biology, she combines her years of daily skin care experience and draws on relevant authoritative sources to recommend a "list of ingredients to avoid for body skin" for readers. This list is derived from Gillian Deacon's book "There's Lead in Your Lipstick", which can help you make healthy decisions when choosing body skin care products.

When it comes to harmful ingredients, we usually consider the amount used (e.g. discussing how much the skin continues to absorb to cause cancer to the body). The body's hair and skin are life-long and need to be treated with more caution. Celine Mackay's list, from a safer insurance perspective, contains ingredients that have been scientifically proven to be harmful, as well as harmful ingredients that have yet to be identified.

This list also takes into account the impact of chemical components on our ecological environment. Some chemical components cannot be completely processed or completely broken down. They enter rivers and fish and shrimp, and will eventually be absorbed by our bodies.

Rejection List: These ingredients can affect your health

1. Coal Tar

A known carcinogen, banned in the European Union but still used in North America. May be used in dry skin treatments, anti-dandruff shampoos and dark hair dyes, coal tar chemicals are found in many US FD & C pigments.

2. Diethanolamine/monoethanolamine/triethanolamine (DEA/TEA/MEA)

Emulsifiers, commonly used in shampoo foaming agents, body washes, soaps, etc., are suspected carcinogens.

3. Ethoxylated surfactants and 1,4-dioxane

is a by-product that is not usually listed in the ingredient list, usually to reduce the skin irritation of the carcinogen ethylene oxide (mostly used in detergents). Investigations found that 57% of baby care products in the United States contain this ingredient.

4. formaldehyde/formalin

It has been proven to be an irritating carcinogen, can cause allergies, and may be used in nail products, hair dyes, false eyelash glues, shampoos, etc., which are banned in the European Union.

5. Synthetic Fragrance (Fragrance/Parfum)

Contains a variety of chemical ingredients, such as phthalates, fragrances that can cause headaches, dizziness, asthma and allergies. Commonly used perfumes, cologne, beauty and skin care cosmetics, soap detergents, etc.

6. Hydroquinone/Hydroquinone

For skin whitening, banned in the UK, Skin Deep is classified as the most toxic, carcinogenic and reproductive toxic by the US Environmental Working Group Cosmetics Safety Database.

7. Lead

Carcinogens, which may be used in lipsticks and hair dyes, are not usually listed in product ingredients.

8. Mercury

Causes skin allergies, affects brain development, and may be used in mascara and eye drops.

9. Mineral oil/paraffin oil

is a petroleum-derived product that may be used in baby oils, moisturizers, styling gels, can interfere with skin respiration, slow its activity and cell regeneration, and may cause allergic reactions. Vaseline is a gel form of mineral oil and is listed as a possible human carcinogen in the European Union Hazardous Substances Directive.

10. Benzophenone/Oxybenzone

More common in sunscreen, it is easy to accumulate in fat, which can lead to allergies, endocrine disorders, cell damage and low birth weight in babies.

11. Parabens/Parabens

A preservative commonly used in many cosmetics that can cause cancer, cause endocrine disorders, and affect the production and release of hormones. May be used in shampoos, commercial moisturizers, shaving creams, body lubricants.

12. Paraphenylene diamine

Used in hair care products and hair dyes, but harmful to the skin and immune system.

13. Phthalates

A plasticizer that is banned in children's toys in the European Union and California. But now it is used in many fragrances, perfumes, deodorants, and lotions, which may cause endocrine disorders, damage the liver and kidneys, damage the reproductive system, and cause fetal defects.

14. Placental extract

May be used in skin and hair care products, causing endocrine disorders.

15. Polyethylene glycol (PEG)

Penetrating agents, usually contaminated with dioxane and ethylene oxide, are carcinogens.

16. Silicon-derived emollients

Usually makes skin care products more lubricated, but it prevents the skin from breathing, may cause tumors, is irritating to the skin, and is not degradable.

17. Sodium Laurate Sulfate (SLS, SLES)

Formerly an industrial degreaser, it is now used to make soap foam, which is absorbed by the skin and is irritating to the skin.

18. Talc

Similar to asbestos, it may be used in baby powder, antiperspirant and deodorant products, eyeshadow, blush, deodorant, etc. May cause ovarian cancer and respiratory diseases.

19. Toluene

Damages the immune and endocrine systems, affects fetal development, may be used in manicure and hair products, often hidden by scent.

20. Dichlorophenoxychlorophenol/Triclosan

May be used in antibacterial products, hand sanitizers, deodorants, soaps, toothpastes, etc., which can cause cancer or endocrine disorders.

How to take care of your skin: healthy and environmentally friendly skin care concepts

The influence of the external environment and the aging of our own skin are inevitable. Good skin needs our attention to take care of. Here are some environmentally friendly, green and beneficial skin care methods recommended.

• Drink plenty of water to actively hydrate your body from the inside out.
• Regular gentle exfoliation, preferably in a 29-day cycle. Regular exfoliation can promote skin metabolism and help keep skin soft and smooth.
• Draw energy from nature. Environmentally friendly skin care products that use marine biological ingredients and plant ingredients are more natural and healthy, and cause minimal damage to the environment. Vegetable oils such as coconut oil, sweet almond oil, and sesame oil are similar to the body's own oils and are easily absorbed by the body. Marine ingredients such as seaweed, caviar essence, ocean deep water, and sea mud are also recognized as excellent ingredients in cosmetics.
• Heat can promote the absorption of skin care ingredients. Our body temperature is higher after bathing, and our body temperature will also rise at night. Therefore, skin care after bathing or before going to bed will be more effective.

Postscript

Ingredients that have not been scientifically proven to be harmful are still tacitly allowed to be used;

The effect on the body is negligible until a certain amount of specific ingredients is used.

Scientific accuracy can often trouble our daily lives, but why put our bodies at risk?