{"id":23057,"date":"2019-05-06T14:53:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T04:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=23057"},"modified":"2019-05-06T14:53:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T04:53:48","slug":"hashimotos-and-toxic-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=23057","title":{"rendered":"Hashimotos And Toxic Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Hashimotos<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I know we guys are partly to blame for this. After all, we do enjoy our eye candy! But it can come at a high price! I received this letter from someone who has done more than the usual amount of looking into it\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hello-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been a girly girl for most of my life. I started carrying around a purse when I was three, loved dressing up in fancy outfits for school dances, and used to drape myself in my mom\u2019s and aunt\u2019s \u201ctreasures and jewelry.\u201d When I came to the United States at age nine, my proudest possession was my first real Barbie doll (they were hard to get in Poland), and I got my first \u201ckid\u201d make-up set at age ten \u2014 complete with pink lipstick and neon blue and purple eyeshadows!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My fascination with fashion trends continued throughout my teenage years. I loved reading beauty magazines and raiding the cosmetic aisles of Walgreens, where I worked as a pharmacy technician during high school, undergrad and pharmacy school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the time I was in my mid-twenties, I had caboodles of makeup, perfumes, lotions, hair styling products, and every other type of beauty \u201cenhancing\u201d potion. I dyed my hair numerous different colors, trying to determine whether blondes, brunettes or redheads had the most fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After I finished pharmacy school, I dabbled in cosmetic chemistry and experimented with creating my own highly effective (read: highly chemical) antiperspirant. I developed the formulation and experimented with raw ingredients in my apartment kitchen. My fianc\u00e9, Michael, (now my husband), was in business school at the time, and even wrote up a business plan for my antiperspirant. We had a mini \u201cShark-Tank\u201d moment, presenting our product in front of venture capitalists that came to the class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I never thought being a girly girl would be so detrimental to my health\u2026 until I started doing research for the \u201cToxins\u201d chapter of my first book, Hashimoto\u2019s: The Root Cause. Learning about the hundreds of chemicals that we, as women, put on our bodies every day \u2014 in the name of beauty \u2014 was a huge eye-opener for me. I had many \u201caha!\u201d moments when I began to realize how harmful many of those ingredients are\u2026 and what they were doing to my body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this article, I\u2019d like to share a little bit more of my personal journey with beauty products, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How the ingredients in personal beauty products can affect our health\nCommon toxic ingredients to avoid\nHow to find safer alternatives to conventional hair, skin, and makeup products\nMy favorite non-toxic beauty products<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
\n
Are You Sacrificing Your Health for External Beauty?<\/a><\/blockquote>