High Blood Pressure and Black Women

It’s something we hear a lot. It’s in several headlines we read.

High blood pressure is a health issue within the Black community.

Did you know that blood pressure issues for Black women develop earlier in life? And more than 40% of Black men and Black women deal with high blood pressure? 

What if there is more to the story than obesity and diabetes?

What if high blood pressure can also be linked to using unsafe cosmetics and personal care products? 

The chemicals found in face makeup, for example, have been linked to high blood pressure. The reason for that is the build-up of chemicals such as mercury, lead, aluminum and arsenic in our bodies. 

Those chemicals are not something our body needs and as a reaction, it doesn’t target it when metabolizing things that enter our body. With no natural detoxing of these substances happening, they then just sit and poison our system, thus causing secondary hypertension. 

Let me break it down a bit more. When our blood gets too acidic, our arteries get inflamed. When that happens our blood pressure goes up.

To take it one step further, when our blood gets too acidic it also tries to fix itself and ends up asking your bones for too much calcium. That then risks that chance of throwing off your PH balance and that then increases your risk of osteoporosis - which is often underrecognized and undertreated in Black women. 

If you still don’t believe me that our cosmetics and personal care products are an issue...

Did you know that (according to the WHO) 82% of chronic degenerative diseases are due to environmental exposures to toxic chemicals? 

It’s also important for me to remind you that Black women use more beauty products than white women. We use more and are directly marketed unsafe products.

My question to you is. Why would you wait until you have a problem? 

Choose safer today.