Personal care products are manufactured to put on your skin, in your hair, or in your mouth. But many of their ingredients toxic and can be ingested during use (like some ingredients in mouthwash and toothpaste) or can easily absorbed into the bloodstream (like some ingredients in soaps, lotions, creams, cosmetic, shampoos, deodorants.
In 1989, a House Subcommittee asked the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to analyze 2,093 chemicals used in personal care products. The results were as follows: 884 of the ingredients were found toxic. Of these, 778 can cause acute toxicity, 146 can cause tumors, 218 can cause reproductive complications, 314 can cause biological mutation, and 376 can cause skin and eye irritations.
