Did you know that if you apply makeup every day, you are absorbing almost 5lb (2.2kg) of chemicals a year into your body, it is claimed.

Mr Richard Bence, a biochemist said that “this is more dangerous than swallowing the chemicals as they get absorbed straight into the bloodstream.” 

This is especially important for pregnant women as chemicals such as phthalates that are in products like hairspray “have been shown to disrupt the hormonal systems” and can possibly cause birth defects, according to the Imperial College London Study. 

Dr Philippa Darbre and colleagues at the University of Reading carried out tests on samples of 20 different human breast tumours and found evidence of parabens possibly from deodorants (also found in other cosmetics) in all the cancerous breast tissue samples as documented in the Journal of Applied Toxicology.

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