Did you know your skin care and beauty products could be contaminating you with chemicals? That those same chemicals in beauty products have been linked to serious health issues like cancer? Scary stuff we know but it's better to be informed so you can make choices. Here's the deal why green is truly beautiful

The average girl will use around 12-15 beauty products every day and that's an exposure to more than 200 hundred synthetic chemical compounds daily!

89% of the chemical compounds used in cosmetics have never been tested for safety and unlike drugs, beauty products are not monitored by the government. That means anyone can whip up whatever concoction and release it without any testing.

In the US recently a new study has been released by The Environmental Working Goup (EWG) that demonstrated just how exposed teens are to nasty chemicals found in their beauty booty!

The study of 20 teen girls found 16 toxic chemicals in their blood and urine samples. You know what that means? The chemicals used in the formulations of the cosmetics they use daily enter their bloodstream and stay there long enough to be detected in tests. Given that the skin is your largest organ it's not exactly rocket science to figure what you put on your skin is going to get absorbed into your body.

So, let's think about that. If you use 12 different beauty products every day and each of those has a host of chemicals you are being mega exposed to a chemical cocktail. Many of these chemicals found are known hormone-disruptors with links to serious health problems.

What that means is that they effect how your hormones work and lots of diseases are hormone related.

Why would you want to put yourself at risk of exposure to these chemicals that have been linked to diseases?

So, what effect can this exposure have on teens? Young girls are commencing puberty at a younger age - the average age today is 11. US studies show that half of all girls develop breasts before their 10th birthday. Other studies have shown that early puberty onset put girls at higher risk of adult illnesses such as breast cancer. And, early maturing girls are more prone to psychiatric or behavioural problems such as depression and eating disorders - both of which are on the rise.

So, hormone disrupting chemicals used in daily beauty products by teens - connection or pure coincidence to these increasing problems?

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