Harm of cooking fumes on the skin

In real life, many women are reluctant to enter the kitchen because there is too much smoke in the kitchen which is harmful to the skin. In fact, in addition to causing great harm to human skin, oil smoke can also cause a certain degree of damage to the body, such as the respiratory mucosa. So how can we reduce the harm of oil smoke to the skin and other parts of the body in daily life? Based on this, this article mainly carries out research, hoping to be helpful to everyone.

Is oil smoke harmful to the skin?

The kitchen is an indispensable place in our lives where we stay for three meals a day. When it comes to the kitchen, I'm afraid the first thing that comes to everyone's mind is oil smoke. Kitchen fumes come from cooking and the combustion of liquefied gas. Everyone knows that long-term inhalation of fumes will cause harm to the body, so what kind of damage will it cause, and how can we reduce this damage? Let me introduce it to you in detail below.

Harm to the human body

Acrolein, the main component of oil smoke, is highly irritating to the respiratory mucosa and can cause pharyngitis, rhinitis, tracheitis, and keratitis. Oil fumes contain 74 chemical substances that can cause cell disease. Long-term inhalation of oil fumes can cause mental depression and general fatigue. Oil fumes will also adhere to the skin, making it yellow, rough and aging, and slowly turn you into a yellow-faced woman. Oil fumes can also affect the growth and development of children, and they are also potentially carcinogenic.

How to avoid cooking fumes

Nowadays, the kitchens of many families are no longer filled with smoke like in the past. With the development of science and technology, most home kitchens are equipped with oil fume purifiers, which greatly reduces the damage of oil fume to the body. In addition to this method, you can try the following methods. When cooking, do not wait until the oil starts to smoke before putting the food in; buy refined cooking oil and smokeless pots produced by regular manufacturers; clean the stove and the inside of the pot promptly after each meal; keep the fume purifier smooth and maintain it regularly; eat more fruits and vegetables rich in vitamins C, E, A, dietary fiber, selenium, etc.

Prevent skin damage

Try to avoid frying when cooking, as high oil temperature will produce a large amount of benzopyrene carcinogens. Keep the kitchen ventilated and well-ventilated. Apply some sunblock cream on your face before cooking to reduce the absorption of oil smoke.

What harm does oil smoke do to people?

Oil fume contains carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, as well as acrolein, benzopyrene and other highly carcinogenic substances. The condensate of oil smoke will adsorb on the facial skin, causing damage to cell chromosomes and accelerating skin aging.

And the consequences of oil fume are more than that. It can also cause various diseases and even cancer! The fat oxides in oil fume can cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. The elderly are especially susceptible to diseases due to long-term exposure to oil fume. When children inhale oil fumes, it will cause eye, nose and respiratory tract lesions and affect their normal growth and development. The pollution from oil fumes makes children susceptible to conjunctivitis, rhinitis, pharyngitis, tracheitis, pneumonia and other diseases, seriously endangering the healthy growth of children.

Should we stop cooking when oil fumes are so harmful? Of course not! With the improvement of quality of life, the requirements for health must also be better! Because traditional range hoods may only have a 70% oil fume absorption rate, and some higher-installed range hoods have a rate of less than 70%. Of course, the people who are cooking will be the first to bear the brunt of the remaining oil fumes! Integrated stoves are indeed different. The latest integrated stoves use side-suction and downward exhaust technology, which is safe and efficient. The principle of downward exhaust creates a fluid negative pressure zone, allowing the oil smoke to be sucked down like magic, and the oil smoke absorption rate can reach more than 99.9%. From now on, you will never see the oil smoke coming towards you again! The integrated stove allows the family to have a healthy cooking environment, and no longer worry about the harm of oil smoke to the family!

How to avoid the harm of oil smoke

1. Turn on the range hood before cooking. Because turning on the range hood first will form a cyclone. When cooking produces oil smoke, the oil smoke will be discharged along the direction of the airflow, reducing the spread of oil smoke and reducing the chance of skin exposure.

2. When cooking, do not open the windows near the cooking area to avoid affecting the exhaust function of the range hood due to wind flow.

3. Do not heat the cooking oil until it smokes before frying.

4. You can try applying a sunblock before cooking.

Kind tips

After cooking, remember to clean the stove and range hood with a fume cleaner to prevent the accumulated fumes from emitting a suffocating odor due to the heat. This can effectively reduce the hazards of accumulated fumes.