By Naya Aayat

Most of us give little to almost no importance when it concerns our health or wellbeing and we live a frantic lifestyle. We are highly influenced by the digital media world, making all kinds of purchases only because they were launched by famous brands, celebrities or influencers. Guilty? We all have been there. But do we exactly know how safe are the products? Did the labels state 100% chemical free ingredients? Most likely not and if they do, only less than 5% of products in the market are actually chemical-free. In this article, we will discover how chemicals do more harm to us than we may know.

What are the signs and symptoms of chemical poisoning and how dangerous can it be to us and our health? Mainly, it affects 3 main areas of our faculty that includes our mental, emotional and physical state. Most of us think chemicals in our products do not have dangerous side effects, but they can cause harm to our mental and physical abilities.

Let’s look at some of the signs and symptoms. Starting with our mental faculty it can cause irritability, which affects the quality or state of our mind. For instance, it can make a person easily annoyed or angered, and create anxiety disorders, which involve worry or fear because it can lead to chronic stress and more. Another symptom would be identity disturbance whereby one develops a negative self-image over time.

However, according to statistics an estimated 121 million people around the world currently suffer from some form of depression (source: Worldwide Facts). Today, it is not surprising that a great number of people suffer various forms of depression, as they link directly to the emotional faculty. For example, depression can cause emotional depletion or exhaustion, and in some cases it can lead to the feeling of aloneness, when one feels a lack of connection or communication with others.

How can chemicals affect us? The physical body can be easily triggered, making us deprived of sleep, which can cause insomnia. Almost 5% of the population is unable to get rid of this problem. Accumulated toxins in our body can lead to an eating disorder. Another unusual sign is that people experience tremors, which is an involuntary, rhythmic muscle contraction leading to shaking movements in one or more parts of the body. Also similar to numbness caused by damage, irritation or compression of the nerves or a branch of it.

The conditions listed above are caused by harmful chemicals in the body from all the products we use in our daily lives and throughout the years. We fail to understand that chemicals and toxins stay in our body, and translate to ill-health. Most products we use in our everyday life contain a series of different chemicals put together in one product.

Study shows that the average woman uses 12 personal-care products a day, containing 168 different chemicals.

Most men use fewer, but they are still exposed to about 85 chemicals daily. Hence, we are poisoning our bodies with harmful toxins due to the lack of awareness. What happens when we start to go completely chemical free? And here are 7 reasons why you should.