Corwellness often blogs about what we choose to put into our bodies for our health & well-being, choosing organic when possible and eating plant foods often. Do you know that it is AS important to pay attention to what you put ON your body as well? Our skin, or epidermis, is our largest organ. Although it does not actually breathe (no lungs or gills), it does absorb what we choose to put on it. Time to rethink that fragrance filled-body lotion? Just like the foods you choose to purchase, read the labels of products that you purchase as well!
Here is a way to make it easier.
The Environmental Working Group is an organization working for us. Their mission is to use the power of information to protect human health and the environment. EWG's Skin Deep database http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/ gives you practical solutions to protect yourself and your family from everyday exposures to chemicals. They launched Skin Deep in 2004 to create online safety profiles for cosmetics and personal care products. Their aim is to fill in where industry and government leave off. Companies are allowed to use almost any ingredient they wish. The U.S. government doesn't review the safety of products before they're sold.
Their staff scientists compare the ingredients on personal care product labels and websites to information in nearly 60 toxicity and regulatory databases. Now in its eighth year, EWG's Skin Deep database provides you with easy-to-navigate safety ratings for a wide range of products and ingredients on the market. At about one million page views per month, EWG's Skin Deep is the world's largest personal care product safety guide.
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