Wanna know one of my bad habits?
I chew on my lips way too much. If someone snaps a picture when I don’t know it… I’m probably chewing on my lips. So I currently have a weird combination of winter dry, chapped, cracked, chewed up lips… hahaha – sounds appealing right?
I decided I need to mix up some sugar scrubs for myself to exfoliate and heal, but in the process I realized there are a lot of pre-made scrubs out there! Who knew!
Sadly it was no surprise to me that they’re all a toxic ingredient catastrophe. Let’s take a looksee…
❌ Fragrance ➙ A loophole in the cosmetic industry that allows an undisclosed, untested concoction of up to 3,164 chemicals
❌ Flavor ➙ Same loophole as above, just a different vague term
❌ Artificial Dye ➙ Animal studies have even linked food dyes to organ damage, birth defects and certain cancers.
❌ BHT ➙ Probable human carcinogen
❌ Phenoxyethanol ➙ The byproduct of combining two carcinogens
❌ Petrolatum ➙ Often found contaminated with carcinogen 1,4 dioxane