What cosmetic products should pregnant women avoid?

What cosmetic products should pregnant women avoid?

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The emerging evidence on cosmetics and reproductive risks are that there are classes of chemicals in hairspray, in bath and body products, in you're average cosmetic kit that are called thalaids. Thalaids are even in deodorant these are plasticizers so they help make plastic what it is but it also helps create more hold and puts body into these products so that they stay on your skin longer. Your average perfume will have thalaids in it so that the chemical the perfume the fragrance stays on your body longer. Thalaids can be absorbed through the skin and during pregnancy, that thalaid compound will get across the placenta and into the developing baby.