Wah…!!! So beautiful nail polish…I think all my girl friends like nail polish. Nail polish has been traditionally worn by women, but has recently popular in men also. Nowadays, there are also nail designs which girls prefer. First thing came into my mind is nail polish is lacquer that applied to our fingernails and toenails to protect our fingernails and toenails. Let us find out what ingredients in nail polish and will it really protect our nails or harm it.
Nail polishes are made up of nitrocellulose which dissolved in a solvent, usually is butyl acetate. Nail polishes contain the following basic components which include film foaming agents, pigments, solvents, resins and plasticizers. Adhesive polymers in the nail polishes will make sure that the nitrocellulose will adhere to the nails’ surfaces. Between the polymers chains, there are plasticizers which form spaces between the polymers to make the film sufficiently flexible after drying. Pigments are added to make desired colors and sparkling particles are added to make sure that the nail polishes have reflecting characteristics. Besides that, ultraviolet stabilizers are added to prevent colors changes when the dry films are exposed to sunlight. Nail polishes also contain a material called toluene which is petroleum-based product that has been linked to cancer. Formaldehyde in the nail polishes may cause allergic and is also dangerous for use by asthmatic people as it is carcinogen.
Nail polish can actually causes a lot of problems. We can get poison when we inhale or breathing nail polish. These are the poisonous ingredients, Toluene, Butyl acetate, Ethyl acetate and Dibutyl phthalate. Dibutyl phthalate will cause testicular problems in humans. The symptoms when we get this poisoning are our kidneys and bladder will increase the rate of urinate. The nail polish will also affect our eyes, cause eyes irritation and possible eyes damage. Furthermore, the nail polish will also cause heart and blood circulatory problems, causes irregular heartbeat and chest pain. It will also affect our nervous system, causing drowsiness, euphoria and the worse is coma.
From a TV show, I learn an experiment which actually frightens me stop to use nail polishes. Now, let me show you how the experiment going on. We just need to apply nail polish on a piece of polystyrene and observe what had happened to the polystyrene.
After knowing this, I think all of us will realize that it is harm to our body if we apply too much of nail polishes. So, for me, I will stop using it as i want a better life and to make sure that I can live longer.
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