Maybe the reason there is institutional distrust and a reliance on EWG is because there is no third party vetting for giant corporations to churn out brand new products year after year. It’s a lot like the pharmaceutical industry. We get new formulations every year which aren’t even new molecularly, just rebranded. The FDA is staffed with individuals who have come from the industries they are supposed to monitor. As a pregnant woman, I would rather trust EWG to double check ingredients than chance products that haven’t been on the market long enough to see long term effects. Your skin is the largest organ on your body, it absorbs everything into your blood stream, your endocrine system, your lymph, your internal organs. I wouldn’t treat anything you put on your skin on a daily basis with less seriousness than medications.
I hear where you’re coming from. I will say though that your skin does not “absorb everything into your bloodstream,” and I encourage you to review the science on this. Studies on pharmacokinetics have repeatedly shown us that the skin is actually pretty effective at keeping things out - including the very serums and treatments we apply hoping they’d penetrate the skin barrier.
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Maybe the reason there is institutional distrust and a reliance on EWG is because there is no third party vetting for giant corporations to churn out brand new products year after year. It’s a lot like the pharmaceutical industry. We get new formulations every year which aren’t even new molecularly, just rebranded. The FDA is staffed with individuals who have come from the industries they are supposed to monitor. As a pregnant woman, I would rather trust EWG to double check ingredients than chance products that haven’t been on the market long enough to see long term effects.
Your skin is the largest organ on your body, it absorbs everything into your blood stream, your endocrine system, your lymph, your internal organs. I wouldn’t treat anything you put on your skin on a daily basis with less seriousness than medications.
I hear where you’re coming from. I will say though that your skin does not “absorb everything into your bloodstream,” and I encourage you to review the science on this. Studies on pharmacokinetics have repeatedly shown us that the skin is actually pretty effective at keeping things out - including the very serums and treatments we apply hoping they’d penetrate the skin barrier.
I empathize with you on the concerns you have as a pregnant woman though.