Late one evening last week I was trying to clear out a room which over the years had filled up with junk. While marking things for deletion I came upon a hidden cache of my ex’s make-up stuff. I will likely never find out why she was hiding that s~~~ from me but I suppose the sheer amount of make-up crap she was hiding from me despite her saying she rarely ever used any is to say the least staggering and represents a small fortune.
I found the usual stuff ranging from moisturizers to eyeliners and nailpolish and was just about to toss it in the bin when I decided to take a closer look at the ingredients and duckduckgo a few of them before committing them to the bowels of my trash container.
What I found was perhaps unsurprising but very interesting in other ways. So for your viewing pleasure in no particular order:
Octyl methoxycinnamate and retinyl palmitate and a bunch of different benzone’s
Found in bottles of sunscreen the latter apparently being similar to vitamin A. Harmless enough you’d say but in sunscreen can speed up the creation of skin lesions and tumors. Our friend octyl over there used as a UV blocker is a great way to kill skin cells or even mutate them.
Cleverly hidden heavy metals (by any other name) occur in a wide array of make-ups from deodorant, concealer to lipstick. The ones that I traced back came down to aluminium, mercury, beryllium, mercury, cadmium and even our good old killer arsenic and lead. Everything you smear on your skin also ends up in your body and the human body has no way to deal with heavy metals other than to throw a little heavy metal party and just store the stuff. Bad for the liver, lungs, some of them are known neurotoxins, respiratory toxins and lead also can cause mood swings.
Various forms of mineral oils in facial creams and hair products. Known to men as pesticides, sealant and engine oil as it is a byproduct of petroleum production to women known as facial cream. Clogs the pores, prevents the skin from breathing and makes sure the toxins that would normally exude through the skin stay where they are. i.e. inside the face.
Unsurprisingly the liver doesn’t have an easy time breaking this stuff down either.
Various ‘urea’s’, diazolidinyl, imadazolidinyl, methenamanine and some other really cool sounding stuff are surprisingly common on my ex’s make-up stuff. Men use these things to clean toilet bowls or preserve wood, it’s also great for preserving mummies if you’re into that kind of thing as it all ends up being formaldehyde. Can be absorbed by the skin quite easily and even turn into a lovely gas and next to its preserving qualities is a great irritant and allergy trigger.
Phenylenediamine basically an oil byproduct used in various dyes such as hair dye in this case. The darker the color the more of the stuff is in there. Great for dying hair and causing cancer. Often combined with our good buddy aluminum which as I mentioned isn’t exactly great for the brain.
monoethanolamide, diethanolamine, triethanolamine or as some would call them MEA, DEA, and TEA great for making cosmetics creamy so they can be applied better. Also known as cancer, cancer and cancer for their awesome ability to cause thyroid and liver cancer. Also tied to being a general skin irritant which is only a minor tradeoff for making stuff creamy I’d say.
various types of parabens, basically anything that ends with the word paraben really. Apparently great for making things smell nice: found in shampoo and moisturizers. Very common (I checked I have shampoo with the stuff) and causes t~~~ in men (as it mimics the female hormone estrogen), affects male reproduction (now you know where manginas come from), is linked to breast cancer in women and is known to age the skin.
Regulation of this stuff varies from country by countries but I was sampling makeup from the US and Europe and none of it looked like it could be recommended for daily usage.
A lot of this stuff doesn’t become toxic unless used a lot… which I think when it comes to women and make-up, meaning daily, does count for something.
In any event you may want to take another look at your shampoo, think twice before you kiss a woman covered in toxic sludge and wonder no more why women age like crap.
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