Potential dangers of gel nail polish

Gel nail polish is beautiful, shiny and durable, but like all other chemicals, it can affect your health.

Gel nail polish is currently one of the beauty trends that many women love. Gel polishes often have the following advantages: diverse colors, long-lasting color (gel polish can last up to two weeks). However, like other nail polishes, they also cause some harmful effects to health.

Gel nail polish can weaken nails

Formaldehyde in gel polish is the culprit that makes nails brittle and break easily.

Effects on the nervous system

Toluene in nail polish, when evaporated in the air, causes irritation to the nerves, eyes, throat and lungs.

Affects the heart, liver, and lungs

Ethyl acetate and Butyl acetate (commonly used as nail polish solvents) irritate the heart, liver, and lungs.

Asthma

If exposed to too much formaldehyde, women also have a very high risk of developing asthma.

Causes dizziness, nausea

The chemical solvents in nail polish make people dizzy when they smell them. These chemicals affect the mucous membranes, causing redness, burning, and stinging eyes...

Risk of causing birth defects

Phthalate and Toluene, if absorbed into the body for a long time, can cause miscarriage or birth defects. Toluene is an additive in gasoline used in nail polish to help smooth nails and keep the color long lasting. However, using too much of this chemical can have a major impact on the central nervous system, causing harm to fertility in women and the health of the fetus.

In addition, the chemical Formaldehyde used in nail polish is equally harmful. This chemical is used to harden nails, and is also a substance that can cause cancer. Dibutyl phthalate is used to polish nail polish, and frequent exposure can cause hormonal disorders, hypogonadism in boys, and reduced fertility.

Cancer risk

Artificial colors in nail polish enamel contain some heavy metals, long-term use can lead to cancer. UVA in sunlight when exposed to nail gel can increase the risk of skin cancer.

The chemical in question is triphenyl phosphate (TPP). Companies often add this chemical to products to make them less flammable, but in nail polish it is used to make the product stick better to the nail.

TPP is currently listed as an ingredient in about 49% of the 3,000 nail polish and nail care products in the Environmental Working Group’s database, according to experts. But EWG suspects there may be many more companies using the chemical without declaring it.

Researchers found that about 10 to 14 hours after applying nail polish, volunteers had an average of seven times higher levels of DPHP, a chemical produced when the body metabolizes TPP, than before use. About 10 to 20 hours later, DPHP levels appeared to peak and decline, suggesting that nail polish may be a source of short-term TPP exposure.

If you accidentally use poor quality nail polish, you will have to face more serious health problems. Your nails will not only be brittle and break easily, but also turn yellow and dark. Regularly applying nail polish and constantly changing nail polish colors will increase the risk of harming your health.

Therefore, you should not be "addicted" to nail polish, only paint them when really necessary or paint as little as possible (3-5 times/year). To avoid the harmful effects of nail polish on the body.

According to VNN