Nail polish ingredients

2015-10-23

Ordinary Nail Polish ingredients are generally composed of the two types, one is a solid-state components, mainly color, flash substances; one is a liquid solvent composition, acetone, ethyl acetate, the main use of phthalates, formaldehyde, etc..

Pigment

The more types of pigment, there are two types of natural and man-made, and now, of course, is the most widely used artificial colorings, but there are many artificial colors with toxic, it may harm to human body. Sudan is a kind of well-known carcinogen. It may also be mixed with natural pigments harmful ingredients, but may be subjected to a purification treatment to remove harmful ingredients, but removal technique is quite difficult, and costly, as manufacturers generally do not use.

Solvent

Solvent component of basic common nail polish are toxic or harmful substances, which is not known to the average person. One of the most powerful, should be phthalate, formaldehyde, followed by acetone, ethyl acetate, and the like.
Hazardous ingredients in nail polish, phthalates can interfere with normal hormone balance, cause serious reproductive harm and other health problems; and benzene and formaldehyde are carcinogenic. There are reports that some of the ingredients in nail polish may have an impact on the health of the fetus, and thus to cause great attention.

Other components

In ordinary nail polish in order to achieve the purpose of making nail polish dry quickly, adding a lot of acetone, ethyl acetate component, the characteristics of these two components are highly volatile, it can quickly get rid of nail polish. However, acetone, ethyl acetate, hazardous chemicals, explosive they produce dizzying pungent odor when volatile, indoor air produce soiled (after volatilization their volume will expand a thousand times), in the long term when inhaled, may cause harm to the nervous system, but also has a strong irritant to mucous membranes. If the home has a baby, then, access to such ingredients is even more dangerous. These organic solvents there is a downside, that is used repeatedly after nails, nails will change color, brittle, white, leading to "nail ending up destroying armor." So some guidance on the use of nail polish, wrote: "The best painted nail polish in a ventilated room, or it may cause dizziness ......", is the truth.
These components kept the nail polish does not cause harm to humans and avoid hazards nail polish is very important.

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