PAUSE FOR PREVENTION // Toxins, Toxins Everywhere
Did you know the average woman wears 515 chemicals a day? 5-1-5. What?! Of the 82,000 ingredients found in beauty products, one in eight is an industrial chemical. Our skin absorbs 60 percent of any topical product we use, which often contain chemicals linked to cancer or hormone disruption.
Advertisers spent an astonishing $144 billion in 2011 to entice shoppers to buy more and more stuff, and there is shockingly little regulation on how they are able to label their products, and what toxic chemicals go in them.