Talc is a natural occurring mineral it however is not great for your body as your body does absorb up to 80% of what you put on it. Talc will accumulate in your system. So for powders it is far better to use say a powder made from ground silk. For the mineral makeups most are harmless and some quite beneficial. Your body does require minerals to exist. Preferably in a collodial natural form.
Our present world is full of man made ingredients that have caused all manner of harm, it is in our food our water our skin care. There are over 50 billion dangerous chemicals on the market that are applied to our crops that we eat and are applied on our bodies from the poor choices of skin care & cosmetics, many carcinogenic. That is why 1 in 2 people today develop some form of serious illness, why many are obese.
We live in a chemical soup. They’re everywhere, in everything and they’re here to stay. How many? It is estimated that since World War II more than 80,000 synthetic chemicals have invaded our world. About 40 million tons are manufactured worldwide.”
It all begins with the way we grow our food with the flotilla of pesticides & herbicides. This is what actually occurs.
Although pesticides are designed to kill insects and other organisms, that’s not all they do. In fact, only 2 per cent of the 1.2 billion pounds of pesticides sprayed on crops accomplish this purpose! The other 98 per cent are absorbed into the air, water, soil, or food supply – and into our bodies. The majority of organochlorines are stored in fat cells and breast tissue. The tendency of organochlorines to stay in the body is evidenced by the fact that recent samples of fat and breast milk collected from women in the United States and Canada contained DDT, chlordane and dieldrin, organochlorines banned for over three decades (as well as those in current use such as DDE and PCBs). Women with high levels of agricultural organochlorines in their blood are 4 to 10 times more likely to develop breast cancer than women with low levels. Women with breast cancer have 50-60 percent more PCBs, DDE and other pesticides and organochlorines in their tissues than women without breast cancer. The really scary thing about these pervasive chemicals is that fetuses and infants can be harmed by exposure to chemicals at levels that do not appear to harm adults. In fact, these hormone disrupting chemicals can have effects at extraordinarily low doses, as low as parts per trillion. Mixtures of chemicals can have effects that are different from those of individual chemicals. For instance, a combination of only two different organochlorines together in minute doses has been found to be 1000 times more potent in affecting human estrogen receptors as with the chemicals alone. So, there’s no escape. We’re surrounded. Products that look innocent, such as commercial soaps as shampoos, can be harboring potent carcinogenic rmone disrupters. So are our foods. Our favorite salad green, lettuce, can be sprayed with pesticides as many as 12 times in its short life. The lawns our children play on, the household cleaners we use in our ovens, on the sink, for the toilet. The water we bathe in. These are just some of the ever contaminating ways chemicals have silently infiltrated into our lives and put at health at risk. What do we do to survive the toxic onslaught? It has become obvious that going organic is really no longer an option. From eating organic fruits and veggies to using organic personal care products, household cleaning products and organic pest control, going organic is really the only way to go.
A recent study found that pre-schoolers who were eating primarily organic foods had 6-9 times less pesticide residues in their bodies! So, just making small changes do make difference!
So even choosing just a mineral makeup that is natural will open your eyes to the truth of what you are putting on your skin, what you are putting into your body and the profound effect this has to the environment and future generations.
