According to the EWG our babies are born with around 200 chemicals on their umbilical cord. What are the causes of this? Our skin is the largest organ in our body and all the toxins in our clothes, lotions and cosmetics are absorbed by the skin. This can cause rashes, cancer, birth and developmental defects.
In this blog I want to talk about detergents, cosmetics, personal care products and lotions. We use all of those products our entire life to clean our clothes, to moisturize our skin, to clean our house and for makeup and we do not see that they cause us any physical harm or we think if so many people use them they should not harm us . But the reality is that the components of the detergents or anything that you use over your body is going to affect your body.
Let’s talk about some of the toxins that are common in many products that affect our hormones. Sometimes changing these products can make a big impact on your hormones levels, especially if you are trying to get pregnant. Nonylphenol ethoxylate is found in some detergents. This toxin is an endocrine disruptor by mimicking estrogen. Butylated hydroxyanisole is present in body lotions and also is used as a preservative in the food. This toxin affects our endocrine system, especially the estrogen levels. Other toxins present in many lotions, cosmetics and shampoo are the parabens. Parabens create a hormone disruption as well and are related to breast cancer. On the other hand let’s talk about cosmetics. Every woman likes and uses cosmetics in their life. Some of us started using it from a young age. Cosmetics is not just something that we apply in our skin we also ingested in lipstick for example. A lot of brands of cosmetics have a lot of components that are harmful for ourselves. Some of those components are talc, triclosan, phthalates and parabens. For example triclosan affects the thyroid hormones, phthalates unbalance our hormones especially estrogen and testosterone. Talc is found in cosmetics and food and is related to cancer.
A lot of the time when you read about these components and toxins they said that small amounts of them are not harmful for the human. But the problem is that these components and toxins are in so many products that we use daily that we are putting or ingesting a big amount of them our whole life. That’s the reason why today we have more problems getting pregnant, developmental defects, ADHD, cancer and more. That’s why I encourage everyone to read the components from every product that we buy, not just the products let’s check the food too. Today we have some apps that make this easier for you when you are doing your groceries, you just need to place the item and the app gives you all the information. Let’s remove all the toxins in our homes for ourselves, for our kids and for our families.
By: Dr. Valerie Nazario
Well Aligned Family Chiropractic 