With anything you put on your skin, you'll want to avoid products that use ingredients known to be an irritant or harmful when absorbed. A great resource for evaluating the ingredients in your personal care products is the Environmental Working Group. Using the EWG's website and their scoring system, you can find products that have very low concerns with the categories: Cancer, Developmental & Reproductive Toxicity, and Allergies & Immunotoxicity.
What gets applied to the skin could very well be absorbed and end up in your blood thereby passing any toxins around to organs. Knowing this, it's important to truly understand the ingredients of products that you use. One of the best ways of checking ingredients is by looking up products and their chemical makeups on the EWG. They have a vast amount of data on individual products and will highlight what's considered safe vs toxic. Every product that comes into contact with your skin should be evaluated. Those include: lotions, soaps, laundry detergents, balms, serums, creams, sprays, polishes Here are some products listed on the EWG that have really good ratings and are widely available:
The following are examples of lotions that score really well and are EWG Verified.
Check out Consumer Lab's report on Which ingredients should toothpastes and other dental products contain, and which should be avoided?
