What is lead and mercury

Both lead and mercury are chemical agents that are harmful to the human body and can cause poisoning or allergies. Many cosmetics used by women now contain lead. You cannot feel the lead-containing cosmetics when you first use them, but it will cause skin necrosis, redness, etc. after a long time. There are also many cosmetics that contain mercury. So, what are lead and mercury? The following is a detailed introduction.

The words "lead" and "mercury" appear frequently in the books on inner alchemy. Lead represents life and mercury represents nature. They are the root of the study of life and nature. In the Zen Meditation Song, the founder of Zen Buddhism, Zhang Sanfeng, it is said: "If someone knows the true lead and mercury, he will be an immortal." However, there are many metaphors, such as yin and yang, the blue dragon and the white tiger, the acquired qi and the innate yang essence, etc., which make beginners feel at a loss. Mercury is likened to a beautiful woman, a middle-aged woman, a woman in green, wood liquid, mercury in cinnabar, twenty-eight, fire, the blue dragon, the Zhen wood, the flowing beads of the sun, the true yin in the yang, mercury, white snow, sex, blue-eyed Hu boy, acquired qi, the sun, the void in the middle of Li, cinnabar, the cross pear, half a catty of lower-string mercury, red phoenix marrow, Ji earth, dry horse, sun soul, golden crow, floating, guest, six rooms, south, east, snake, eight ounces of crow liver, white dragon liver, yin essence, wife, Qing E, my home, a family of wood and fire, jade ganoderma, white yin fire, true yin, female, Fusang, Suzaku, etc.

You won’t feel the effects of using skin care products containing lead and mercury at first. Mercury and lead are both highly toxic substances that can easily cause skin allergies. However, after using cosmetics with excessive mercury content, due to individual differences, not all users will immediately suffer from mercury poisoning. Therefore, many consumers believe that trace amounts of mercury and lead are harmless to them. Little do they know that after being absorbed through the skin, they will be deposited in the human body and cannot be eliminated, thus causing chronic poisoning in the human body and causing irreparable damage to the user.

How to determine if skin care products contain lead and mercury:

1. The main ingredients of normal whitening and freckle removal products are arbutin and vitamin C, which can gradually improve skin quality relatively slowly. However, lead and mercury compounds have the effect of quickly and efficiently removing freckles and whitening in a short period of time. If used for a long time, they may cause chronic poisoning.

2. When choosing whitening and freckle-removing skin care products, the key is to identify whether the lead and mercury content exceeds the standard. Industry insiders pointed out that when buying whitening and freckle removal products, you can carry silver jewelry such as silver rings and silver necklaces with you, and dip an appropriate amount of silver jewelry into the chosen skin care products and keep it on the silver jewelry for a few minutes.

3. Then scratch the white paper a few times. If black and gray scratches are left, it means that it may contain lead and mercury. In this way, the lead and mercury content in skin care products can be identified, making it easier for consumers to correctly choose skin care products that do not contain lead and mercury.