Last night I caught Sarah Beeny’s latest show, “How Toxic Are You“, which shined a light on the scary world of beauty products and the violently dangerous chemicals that are shoehorned in to even the most “natural” products such as bubble bath and toothpaste.
During the show, they took two women whose incredible beautification routines must have taken up most of the day, detecting thousands of man made chemicals in their bodies, and put them on a toxin-free regime for a month.
In the meantime we discovered the frightening levels of man-made toxins that are put in to products labelled as “natural” or “simple”, many of which have suspected links to cancer. Frankly I was shocked by what I saw. But it was okay as I’m not in to all of that lip gloss and stuff, although afterwards I glanced at the ingredients on the label of my beloved bubble bath, and the aloe vera cream I use after shaving. Heck even my toothpaste is mostly plastic, and let’s not even get started on the deodorant.
And if I wasn’t worried enough, we then saw an analysis of breast milk, of course to find that most of this crap is being passed on to our infants.
So I wonder, would I trade all these toxins in for being a little bit smellier, and a little less clean? And by clean I mean not having all of my bodily oils stripped by the same chemical used to degrease engine blocks.
It seems that yesterday before I watched this programme, the world was a much nicer place and soap smelled like, well soap.
