​It was not till recently that I became super conscious about what I put on my skin. For many years, I picked a lotion that was attractive looking and within my skin care budget without a thought to ingredients. That's because I did not realize that skin is very absorbent and what you put on it will end up in your blood. Recently I did an audit of all the products in my home and was shocked to find 
1) Most of my soaps, scrubs, lotions has a minimum of thirty ingredients
2) Many of the ingredients are harmful
3) The skin care and cosmetics industry is totally unregulated and companies put all kinds of things in their products. 
Below are a few examples:
​Biore pore unclogging scrub

The full list of ingredients can be found on the P&G website and are as follows:
Inactive ingredients
Water, glycerin, isohexadecane, polyacrylamide, C13-14 isoparaffin, laureth-7, cyclopentasiloxane, PEG/PPG-20/20 dimethicone, steareth-21, stearyl alcohol, sucrose polycottonseedate, behenyl alcohol, tocopheryl acetate, cetyl alcohol, DMDM hydantoin, iodopropynyl butylcarbamate, steareth-2,  triethoxycaprylylsilane, disodium EDTA, aloe barbadensis leaf juice, oleth-3 phosphate.

DMDM hydantoin is a preservative and has a toxicity rank of 7/10 - a formaldehyde releaser. 

The point is, I was horrified and outraged that big companies can be so irresponsible and make chemical soups with potentially hazardous chemicals that can end up in my cells. I get that the concentration of these things is really small, but we use these products daily, sometimes more than once a day for years and then it does not take much imagination to wonder at the cumulative concentrations in our blood. 

The last product I want to mention is Pond's cold cream. This thing has been around for decades - now it is a sad toxic pot of crap.
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My request to you is to throw this product if you own it. 
Next time you pick up a product, please look at the ingredients. Make good choices for your health and say no to stuff made with negligence and irresponsibility.