Is your shampoo making you fat?

Your favorite luscious foaming “white-ginger-tea-rose” body soap, and creamy “dessert-rain-flower” body lotion may feel like nirvana wafting into your nostrils in the morning or after a long butt-kicking day, but, they could be sabotaging your efforts to lose weight and feel great in your body.

It’s a bizarre thought that your personal care products could be making you fat! But, by the end of this blog, you may be chucking out your shampoo.

You may have heard that your skin is actually your biggest organ, and that it absorbs what you put on it. We usually don’t think about that when we wash our hair or slather on moisturizers, but those seemingly benign and comforting products contain a host of chemical ingredients that can actually contribute to weight gain, thyroid disorders, and even cancer.

Unfortunately what makes these products smell so dazzingly good, the “fragrance” you see on the ingredient list, is a major obesogen* called a phthalate.Phthalates are plasticizers that help to hold the scent on your skin and hair for a long time.

That’s why you still smell good enough to eat hours after you washed, rinsed, and dried.  But get this: phthalate is a synthetic estrogen and can mimic estrogen in the body, causing all kinds of problems, such as weight gain, in our delicate hormonal system.

Start checking ingredient labels on the lotions and shampoos you buy. Look for:

1. fragrance free, or made with only pure essential oils
2. paraben free
3. SLS, or SLE free

If you see any of these ingredients on the label, don’t purchase for these reasons:

Fragrance – contains Phthalates, which are potent hormone disruptors.
Parabens – are preservatives linked to cancers.
Sodium Laurel Sulfate (SLS) and Sodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES) are skin irritants and increase the rate at which other chemicals are absorbed into the skin.

You may be asking, “What about all these years I’ve been unknowingly absorbing these chemicals?” Well, you probably have an accumulation of these toxins that are already affecting your health.

Even symptoms as common as brain fog, PMS, moodiness, weight around the middle – all of these can be caused, or worsened, by prolonged exposure to these everyday chemicals.

But there is a way out! A proper detox can work wonders in helping you to get rid of this toxic overload. Check out the Extreme Radiance 10-day Detox. It’s the shortest and easiest route to feeling better in your body, fast.

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*a chemical that mimics estrogen in your body and can contribute to weight gain and obesity.