There are actually several ways to regain and maintain healthy skin. One of the first to look at it is the water and soap one uses to wash with. Chlorinated water will dry out your skin. If you use a water filter designed to remove chlorine, your skin will benefit.
Eating healthy oils, including the foods avocados and olives, can be very helpful in maintaining your inner balance of fats. Good fats are essential to health, and health is dependent on what goes in and on the body. Other healthy oils include Coconut and Olive.
Another part of this to be aware of is anti-bacterial soaps. These soaps are very dangerous, partly due to the skin being able to absorb the chemicals in this soap. Just one example of this is Dial Anti-Bacterial hand soap. If we look at the ingredients, we see:
1. Sodium Laurel Sulfate and Ammonium Laureth Sulfate. These are known to be dangerous, are are so listed on the paperwork submitted to the FDA, on the FDA's website. Considered a low hazard.
2. Decyl Glucoside has little listed information I have found. So far, not considered hazardous.
3. Cocamidopropyl Betaine is considered at moderate hazard by the Environmental Working Group. This is prohibited for use in cosmetics, known to cause harm to the immune system, and can manifest in the body as allergic reactions and cause impaired ability to fight infection and disease, and to hinder repair of damaged tissues.
4. Glycerin is linked to cancer, toxicity of the biological systems of the body, known to harm the brain and nervous system and cause chronic nerve degeneration disease. Also linked as irritation to the eyes, ears and lungs. ~ RTECS®- Mutation Research 2005 & RTECS®- Food and Cosmetics Toxicology 1979
5. Sodium Chloride, or table salt. Only known to be a cause of hardening of the arteries, strokes and heart attacks. Celtic Sea Salt or Celery Salt are far better sources of salt.
6. PEG-18 Glyceryl Oleate/Cocoate is considered a moderately high hazard which is prohibited for use in cosmetics, generally contaminated with Ethylene Oxide and 1.4 Dioxane. Known to be toxic to the digestive and reproductive systems. Also listed as Polyethylene Glycol, which the government says is safe, yet on the manufacturer's paper submitted to the FDA's website, this is listed as a very dangerous product. Interesting.
7. Fragrance is considered a HIGH hazard and is known to cause harm to the immune system, causes harm to the brain and nervous system. Also known as Parfum. This is used in hair coloring products, moisturizers, shampoos and conditioners, facial moisturizing treatments, body/wash cleansers, styling gels and anti-perspirants.
8. Cocamide Mea is also known as HIGHLY hazardous including cancer causing, prohibited from use in cosmetics, immune system damaging, organ system toxicity, has Nitrosimes, which are also considered HIGHLY hazardous, including cancer causing. This is said to build up in the body and not break down to normal bodily chemistry functioning.
9. DMDM Hydantoin is again, prohibited for use in cosmetics, is known to have formaldehyde, organ toxicity, and irritating to the eyes, ears and lungs. Another HIGHLY hazardous material.
10. Tetrasodium EDTA is a moderately toxic agent known to enhance absorption through the skin, accumulates and stays in the body, causes organ system toxicity, irritating to the eyes, skin and lungs, and is known to be hazardous to fish and wildlife.
11. Yellow #5(Dye) is listed as a moderate health hazard(used in all sorts of food and candy products and a vast amount of pharmaceutical drugs), causes developmental and reproductive toxicity. Also neurotoxic, known organ toxicity.
12. Red #4(Dye) is listed similarly to Yellow #5, except that it also prohibited in cosmetics.
These are the listed ingredients in Dial Anti-Bacterial Hand Washing Soap. And you only thought the FDA was protecting you, didn't you? I would apply for the head of the FDA, but don't want that job. Too much chance of me not making it home alive. I won't give in to the corruption.
The information I listed above is partly from these sources:
a ~ One or more animal studies show skin irritation at low doses RTECS®- "Sbornik Vysledku Toxixologickeho Vysetreni Latek A Pripravku," Marhold, J 1972
b ~ Allowed workplace exposures restricted to low doses European Union - Classification & Labelling
c ~ Suspected to be an environmental toxin and be persistent or bioaccumulative Environmental Canada Domestic Substance List
There are more sources, but we're going to run out of room here.
This is just a brief listing from a U.S. Government website on part of the above:
Canada - Prohibited and Restricted Cosmetics Ingredients NITROSAMINES •Prohibited from use in Canadian cosmetics
CHE Toxicant and Disease Database NITROSAMINES •Limited evidence in humans: cardiovascular system toxicity, gastrointestinal system toxicity; Condition: angiosarcoma (cancer, hepatic); Organs/tissues affected: blood vessels, liver
CHE Toxicant and Disease Database NITROSAMINES •Limited evidence in humans: renal system toxicity; Condition: bladder cancer; Organs/tissues affected: bladder
CHE Toxicant and Disease Database NITROSAMINES •Limited evidence in humans: nervous system toxicity; Condition: brain cancer - childhood; Organs/tissues affected: brain
CHE Toxicant and Disease Database NITROSAMINES •Limited evidence in humans: gastrointestinal system toxicity; Condition: colo-rectal cancer; Organs/tissues affected: colon
CHE Toxicant and Disease Database NITROSAMINES •Limited evidence in humans: endocrine system toxicity; Condition: diabetes - type I; Organs/tissues affected: pancreas
CHE Toxicant and Disease Database NITROSAMINES •Moderate evidence in humans: gastrointestinal system toxicity; Condition: esophageal cancer; Organs/tissues affected: esophagus
CHE Toxicant and Disease Database NITROSAMINES •Limited evidence in humans: gastrointestinal system toxicity; Condition: hepatocellular cancer (liver cancer); Organs/tissues affected: liver
CHE Toxicant and Disease Database NITROSAMINES •Limited evidence in humans: immune system toxicity; Condition: immune suppression; Organs/tissues affected:
CHE Toxicant and Disease Database NITROSAMINES •Moderate evidence in humans: respiratory system toxicity; Condition: lung cancer; Organs/tissues affected: lungs
CHE Toxicant and Disease Database NITROSAMINES •Limited evidence in humans: respiratory system toxicity; Condition: nasopharyngeal/sino-nasal cancer; Organs/tissues affected: nose, sinuses
European Union - Classification & Labelling TETRASODIUM ETHYLENE DIAMINE TETRAACETATE •Harmful
•Risk of serious damage to eyes
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