What’s the "Canola Oil” Equivalent Ingredient in Skin Care Products That’s a Red Flag for You?

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Wow. It's actually not just one ingredient, it's a number of ingredients. So in a really good skincare product, a really great medical grade line. I work with a number of different medical grade lines. Some are better than others. Some ingredients are, you know, things that we absolutely want to want to avoid. And the ones we definitely want to avoid are parabens, phthalates, sulfates, artificial dyes and fragrances. And of course, not testing on animals. So it's really not just one ingredient we want to avoid, it's all of those. And this can be really, really tricky for people especially say if they've gone to their dermatologist and they have a skin condition and they're recommended some relatively inexpensive, easy to access product on the, on the drugstore shelf. And oftentimes I'll do a little bit of investigating of what someone might be on. And they often have all three types of parabens that we want to avoid. Parabens are known to disrupt our hormones. And also in addition to the parabens, phthalates, sulfates, artificial dyes, fragrances, and testing on animals, we really want to be avoiding mineral based sunscreens. And mineral based sunscreens are also considered endocrine disruptors. Or what that means is we apply these sunscreens, you know, the ones that smell like sunscreen, they irritate your eyes and you have to keep reapplying or goodness forbid, the ones in the aerosolized spray cans that you end up inhaling, don't even get me started on those. But we do want to be avoiding these chemical based sunscreen filters because they impact our hormones and they're killing our coral reefs. So just simply make the switch over to a mineral based sunscreen, something that's using zinc and titanium. I typically like sunscreens that have a little bit of each and not just zinc so that you don't get that white cast when you put it all over your body and protect you. And also I do recommend taking your internal antioxidant supplements to give you a little bit of an internal sunscreen boost as well. So in regards to the question, what's the canola oil ingredient equivalent in skincare. That's a red flag for me. It's actually not just one thing, it's many things. And I'm just gonna repeat it so you can take a look at your skincare. Grab your favorite product and check this out. I want you to check your stuff right now. Parabens, phthalates, sulfates, artificial dyes and fragrances and tested on animals. And. And then there's not testing on animals. And then of course, there's that other layer of, well, where are the active ingredients being sourced from? So if you have a product and it says, oh, there's vitamin C or there's vitamin A, okay, that's all well and good. Those are, those are wonderful antioxidants for the skin. But then where are they being derived from? What type of lab are they coming from? Are they coming from overseas in a really subpar facility? And then they're being manufactured in North America. So you have to be really careful about this, really finding out where your product ingredients are coming from, where the lab is sourcing the actives, and then where it's being manufactured. Because even with supplements, when products are quote, unquote, manufactured in the US There are often traces of lead that can be found in other ingredients that are sourced internationally. So it's this whole conundrum of all these things that we need to be aware of. It's not just one thing. It really comes down to the quality of the formula. The. But then definitely avoiding those big offenders.

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