Back before the industrial age came along, the types of chemicals that touched our skin were pretty much those that the Earth made on her own. Today it's a different story. What you are putting on your skin day after day, year after year, may be doing much more harm than good. Stop and think about how many products you use every day, EVERY day, year after year.Soap or shower gel, shampoo, conditioner, body lotion, deodorant, shaving creme, a myriad of hair products, perfume, make-up, lipstick, lip balm, etc. The cumulative affect personal care ingredients have on on our bodies is just emerging. Our skin is our biggest organ, and it absorbs what we put on it and passes it along to our bloodstream and internal organs. Rub some garlic on the bottom of your feet and see how long it takes for it to show up in your breath - shouldn't be more than 20 minutes. Tissue samples of everyday Americans show that we carry and store many of the chemicals in personal care products (and even clothing- we have a lot of fire-retardant stuff in us) that were previously thought couldn't penetrate the skin (remember the garlic). Like most people, you probably assume those ingredients penetrating our skin and coursing though our bodies are safe, right?  They have to be tested, right? They wouldn't be able to sell them if they knew an ingredient caused cancer, right?  Unfortunately, the answer to these three questions is "no". In