Fragrances in Your Skin Care Products Can Cause Brain Damage

That a scary statement. How in the world could a fragrance possibly do you any harm, let alone cause brain damage? That’s a good question. Today I want to look at the risks of chemical fragrances in personal products such as skin care products, cosmetics and much more.

Whilst it may be romantic to imagine someone somewhere stirring a huge vat of rose petals to produce perfume nothing could be further from the truth. In fact a fragrance, or one of many thousands that are currently in use today, is nothing more than a chemical that smells good.

Generally they are produced in a laboratory by a chemist, and if you read the chemical name it would sound no different to any one of thousands of other chemicals. Very few have ever been tested for safety for use on people.

A fragrance is just a chemical. And you don’t even get to read the chemical name because companies that manufacture personal products such as skin care products and cosmetics are not required to put the full chemical name on the label to protect their so-called “trade secret” chemical fragrance.

Normally fragrances in products are just listed as “fragrance” and no more. Sometimes they aren’t even listed.

Research shows that when you put something on your skin it is normally absorbed into the body in a relatively short period of time and can be found in your bloodstream quite fast. So many of our modern skin care products and anti aging products are used on large areas of the body including all over the face, neck, hands and more.

And if these products, as they normally do, contain a chemical fragrance it is applied to a large area of the skin and is absorbed into the bloodstream like any other.

Now of course there’s nothing wrong with smelling nice, but doing so by smearing chemical fragrances over your skin is not necessarily a great idea.

But how about the brain damage? As far back as 1986 the US National Academy of Sciences recognised the potential of chemical fragrances to cause brain damage because of their possible action as a neurotoxin.

Of course this doesn’t mean that anyone who uses a fragrance will get brain damage. It just means that the US National Academy of Sciences recognises the risk is there.

But do you want to take that risk?

The good news is that there are excellent niche skin care companies that produce outstanding natural skin care products that do not contain any fragrances at all. The reason they don’t contain any chemical fragrances is because of what I’ve just outlined above.

If you want to smell good then use a little dab of perfume, preferably on your clothes rather than your skin, because fragrances in perfumes are no different.

And if you want to use high quality skin care products that really work and which do not contain fragrances visit my website to find out where to get them.