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When you’re pregnant, Google becomes your best friend. Anyone
with a computer, smart phone or tablet and access to WiFi can
uncover all sorts of potential “dangers” in their personal care
products. That’s both the beauty and danger of the internet. It’s
easy to fall down a rabbit hole of terrifying information, where
nothing but a mound of charcoal and a bottle of purified
water sound safe enough to use on your skin anymore. You’ve
got enough to worry about with all of the major life changes
happening, the last thing you need are more things to keep you
up at night. So when we talk about what skincare ingredients to
avoid during pregnancy, you have permission to focus on only
the ones that have true cause for concern.
I personally banned
parabens
along with a few other questionable
ingredients from my skincare repertoire during pregnancy, but
still used a lot of products that contained ingredients that many
watch groups would say were inadvisable. To help make it easier
for people to know what beauty ingredients to avoid during
pregnancy, the US Food and Drug Administration has pregnancy
categories for ingredients and assigns drugs a letter (A, B, C, D
and X) based on their safety ( see next page for more details ) .
Mama Mio has taken the guesswork out of product shopping
for mamas. All nasties have been tossed out, so shopping for
skincare is one less thing to worry about during pregnancy.
All of the products do exactly what they say they’re going to
do and use only the cleanest ingredients. Mama Mio proves it’s
possible to create effective products without using any of those
nasty ingredients, including parabens, phthalates, mineral oils
or xenoestrogens.
What skincare ingredients should I avoid?