A naturopathic physician and gut health specialist, Dr. Immanuel Biney, has cautioned Ghanaians against the use of body creams and colognes as they contain chemicals that can cause kidney damage.
According to him, the artificial fragrances, additives, colors, and dioxins, among others, contained in body creams, perfumes, and colognes are harmful to the kidneys.
In an interview on the Max Morning Show in Accra on Tuesday, Biney said achieving radiant, mild, and gentle skin was not about the body products to which one applies, but solely about the healthy food one consumes.
He termed it a misconception for a person to even think that body products had a better impact on the skin and charged them to rather channel their energies on eating the right amount of natural ingredients, vegetables, and spices for their effect to reflect on the skin.
Biney indicated that skin-care products available on the market were not safe for the skin and the kidneys.
Though some of the products were already approved by the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), he maintained that there were products on the market that came through “the backdoor” and warned the citizenry to be cautious.
For the skin to glow without having any effect on the kidney, the doctor said it was relevant to revisit the past and adopt indigenous skin-care treatments with the use of essential oils, butters, lavenders, and pure fragrances from plant oils.
On her part, Anita Afi Senah, a health care practitioner, observed that laws that protect fragrance manufacturers from sharing “trade secrets” have made perfumes on commercial markets crammed with chemicals that weren’t listed individually on the product packaging.
Instead, these chemicals, she said, were simply covered by the word “fragrance,” a catchall ingredient category that really could mean anything.
“Because many ingredients included in perfume aren’t disclosed to the buyer, there are some well-founded concerns over the chemical reactions perfume can trigger in your body to damage the kidney,” she added.
Source: Ghana/MaxTV/MaxFM/max.com.gh/Joyceline Natally Cudjoe
