Let’s look at a bottle of toner. You’ve finished half of it, but the other half is old and now smells bad. You pour it down the drain.

Your discarded toner goes to the waste water system, or a local treatment plant – which filters the water. The chemicals in your toner aren’t filtered and end up in the surface and ground water, slowly but surely accumulating over years.

Many pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) have been labeled by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as “emerging contaminants of concern” for fish and aquatic life. With potentially irreversible effects on our environment as they accumulate and become more and more toxic, these chemicals have long-term effects on the endocrine system in fish, leading to reproductive and behavioral disorders as well as lowered immune system functionality. The poisoned fish, with high traces of these toxic chemicals, make it into your food supply. You eat these fish and the chemicals enter your body, potentially causing you harm.

Some of these potentially dangerous chemicals are:

Parabens: these preservatives are endocrine disruptors and found in almost all cosmetic and personal care products.

Sodium Lauryl Sulfate: is used to create lather in shampoos, body washes, and face washes, but is an environmental toxin (according to the Environmental Working Group). As it is a pesticide, it also causes damage to your internal organs.

Phthalates: the most frequent chemical found in fish samples and fragrances, these are endocrine disrupters and there is no requirement for them to be mentioned on labels.

What can you do? Support and buy organic products with only truly natural ingredients that you can pronounce. Instead of introducing more potentially lethal chemicals into the drain every time you take a shower or wash your hands, introduce something like neem, which is harmless, and an amazing skin care ingredient, to you, wildlife, and the environment!

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The drug industry has capitalized on this problem, which some studies say is due to environmental exposures, such as synthetic pesticides, by creating horribly expensive synthetic drugs to relieve a problem that other synthetics have caused. Typical synthetic drugs that are marketed to treat eczema can often cost more that $50,000 per year! A new one is about to be released that has a slightly lower price tag – $37,000 per year. What if people can’t pay for these synthetics or find that they don’t work, but still need relief to live their lives?

Usually, nature can solve mankind’s problems. In this case, solving a problem caused by synthetics with a synthetic solution may not be the most economically feasible for the average consumer. Instead, there are many plant-based, natural solutions to skin problems. One of the most powerful is neem. Neem can be used to treat normal skin to severe eczema and psoriasis, topically, also view cheap moving companies in San Diego. The advantages of neem is that it contains over 150 compounds, some of them unique to neem, that make it an extremely effective and safe ingredient for moisturizing and relieving the skin. Additionally, it is antibacterial, protecting damaged skin from bacteria and infections! Have you tried neem yet?

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