You waste tons of money on expensive lotions, creams and other beauty products and put your health on the line just to be beautiful. Unfortunately, most women are aware of the hazards they get from these of beauty products but are still willing to sacrifice their own health in exchange for beauty.

Lurking inside your cosmetics bags and behind your medicine cabinets are beauty products with ingredients that are very dangerous for your bodies. The growing list of modern cosmetics has toxins that could cause reproductive damage or cancer over years of continuous use. Manufacturers add synthetic ingredients to their products that your shampoos, moisturizers, hair dyes, or make up could trigger allergic reactions, interfere with the endocrine system, impair reproduction or cause cancer. The culprits include synthetic fragrances, coal tar, formaldehyde, phenols, sodium laureth sulfate and toxic dyes. Also, cosmetics that claim to be “natural” or “organic” may still have toxic ingredients.

Health really pays a price. You don’t have to choose beauty before health. If you want to be beautiful, you can make your own beauty products using herbs, vegetable or fruits. You can make face masks out of cucumber, peach or citrus fruit. Olive oils can give you amazingly shiny hair, soft hands and silky skin. Blueberry is popular because of its antioxidant, antiaging, and anti-inflammatory effects. You can heal skin irritations and scars using aloe vera. Just be aware, be resourceful and be creative, health is still your wealth.