Skin care ingredients that are not good for pregnant women

Many pregnant mothers often have such doubts: "Can this one work? Which one can work?" Yes, many pregnant women are troubled by pregnancy skin care. When using skin care products, they always have to consider whether it will cause a health threat to the baby's growth. In fact, the most important thing for pregnant mothers to buy skin care products is safety and rationality, so as long as there are no skin care ingredients that pregnant women cannot use, it will be fine. Some pregnant mothers may ask, what are the ingredients of skin care products that pregnant women cannot use? Don't worry, follow us and take a look!

In addition to helping pregnant women solve various problems such as dry skin and itching, the skin care products used by pregnant women must also be safe, otherwise it will affect the growth and development of the baby. But nowadays many skin care products for pregnant women contain ingredients that cannot be used during pregnancy, but many pregnant mothers are not aware of this.

Pregnant women should avoid using skin care products containing the following ingredients:

1. Hydroquinone

2. Retin-A and tetracycline

3. Retinoid and Sodium Salicylate

Acid)

4. Dihydroxyacetone

5. Retinols

6. Phthalates

A acid and its compounds can cause fetal malformation

Oral use of isotretinoin can cause fetal malformation and is strictly prohibited during pregnancy and lactation. Using A acid during pregnancy is also a high-risk behavior. It must be strictly prohibited. Because A acid is a medicine, it is not used in skin care products. What are used in skin care products are its compounds: A aldehyde (retinal), A alcohol (retinol) and A esters (such as retinol palmitate). The risk levels decrease successively, so if the skin care products contain retinaldehyde, retinol, or retinol ester, they should not be used.

Sodium salicylate, taken in large doses, can cause fetal malformation

Clinical trials have found that taking small doses of acetylsalicylic acid (also known as aspirin) during pregnancy does not increase the risk of fetal malformations, premature births, or low birth weight. However, taking large doses of acetylsalicylic acid during pregnancy may increase the risk of fetal malformations. Skin care products containing sodium salicylate have been around for many years, and there are no reports on their safety when used by pregnant women. Therefore, during pregnancy or breastfeeding, it is not necessary to panic if you occasionally use a small amount of skin care products with a low concentration of sodium salicylate (less than 2%). However, if skin care products that are used for a long time or on a large scale, such as massage creams, contain sodium salicylate, you should be careful. Especially when it comes to peeling skin with high content of sodium salicylate, you should be more careful. Therefore, for safety reasons, you should refrain from using skin care products containing sodium salicylate during pregnancy.

Many female friends may feel confused. Since skin care products are only applied on the skin, why can they harm the fetus? In fact, although the skin has a relatively complete metabolic function, it can metabolize the ingredients in most skin care products. However, there are still smaller amounts of ingredients in skin care products that penetrate into the bloodstream through the skin. If these ingredients are harmful or harmful to the fetus, the health of the fetus will be threatened. This shows how important it is for pregnant women to understand whether the ingredients are harmless when purchasing or using skin care products.