Learn About Toxic Beauty Ingredient Oxybenzone

Hi I-Spyer’s! Today’s ingredient is oxybenzone. Now, this may sound familiar to you because it’s actually all over the news. Actually reports were published warning pregnant women not to use any product that have this ingredient on the label. And the reason for that is because it appears to be highly toxic and it’s also easily absorbed by the system through the skin and so the things that they found actually is linked to a developmental and reproductive toxicity which includes things like infertility and reproductive organ cancers. And also it’s been linked to developmental and learning delays in children and birth defects. It’s also been stated to have the ability to lower the immune system and impair the body’s ability to fight off disease and repair itself properly. So, this is something that you really do want to take seriously in all kinds of sunscreens, lip balms, anti-aging products and all kinds of moisturizers so watch for oxybenzone.

Okay. So, how are you going to remember this one? Okay, this one is going to be pictures. So first of all, you’re just going to picture this huge OX and what is he doing? He’s got horns but their shape is like a Y and where is he? He’s chasing a B. Okay so this OX that has Y shape horns is chasing a B, where? In the ENZON, okay, put it all together and you’ve got OXYBENZONE.


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