Toxic essences
"Think about your morning routine - how you shower, shave, moisturise and deodorise. Add perfume, make-up and hair products - and you'll be using around 200 chemicals on your hair and body every single day.You might think you look good, but our skin absorbs nearly 60 per cent of the chemicals we come into contact with, sending them directly into our bloodstream. Recent research has shown that it can take just 26 seconds for some of those chemicals to go from skin to every major organ of the body. "
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"Our health hasn't got better over the years. In fact, it's getting worse: we have more mood swings and depression now than ever, which we put down to 'modern life' - a sort of catch-all phrase - but we never stop to think it might be the modern chemicals we're exposed to and their wide-ranging effect on our emotional and physical well-being," she adds."How do you know that your mood swing isn't based on something that you're exposed to, rather than just the hassles of daily life?"
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