Is Your Body Full of Toxins?

There are some ingredients on the market that have been studied to a certain extent and have been given allowable or “safe” amounts that can be included in products. 

But what happens when that only pertains to one product? One allowable “dose”? 

Does that still apply when we use that product twice a day? 

What about when that ingredient is in five other products we use twice a day? 

The possibility of chemical accumulation is overwhelming once we start to explore how many times we come in contact with harmful ingredients. 

Especially when you consider that women use an average of twenty products a day - leaving us exposed to 36+ chemicals on a consistent basis. 

It’s no surprise then, really, that 70-90% of chronic disease is due to environmental exposures. 

Think about this way - let’s walk through a typical day. 

  • Wake up & brush your teeth - exposure to fluoride, triclosan, carrageenan, aspartame

  • Shower and wash hair - contact with sulfates, parabens, fragrance, triclosan, polyethylene, diethanolamine, formaldehyde

  • Wash your face & put on makeup - exposure to sulfates, parabens, phthalates, synthetic colors, fragrance, triclosan, toluene, talc, lead, formaldehyde, sls/sles, BHT

  • Make breakfast and grab prepped lunch - exposure to benzene, BPA, chlorine, dioxins, phthalates, PTFE, polyethylene terephthalate, BFRS

  • Clean the kitchen - contact with phthalate, PERC, triclosan, 2-butoxyethanol, ammonia, chlorine, sodium hydroxide 

  • Do laundry - exposure to sls/sles, phosphates, formaldehyde, VOCs, chlorine bleach, dioxin, fragrance, benzyl acetate

  • Take out garbage - contact with lead, arsenic, petroleum products, PCBs

  • Netflix & wine time - exposure to flame retardants 

Your body can easily get overloaded with chemicals and cause varied damage when we avoid looking at our habits and products from a whole & big picture perspective. 

Some of these issues may manifest as:

  • Brain fog

  • Low energy levels

  • Skin irritation

  • Cancerous tumors

  • Allergies

  • Hair loss

  • Skin issues


What can you do? 

Learn what to watch for by following Clean Beauty for Black Girls.

Shop safer. Start with even just one product & replace with a safer alternative. 

Read ingredients. Use an app to scan products to determine its potential harm. 



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