Nail Polish Removers, Bad or Good For Health?
While people started to colour their nails since far back as 3000 BC, by using the pigment of plants and flowers, the polish itself and polish removers were an offshoot of the invention of automotive paint in the 1920s. In today's world removers are made up mainly of a solvent needed to dissolve the resins in polish like acetone, methyl acetate. These chemicals have many other uses, you can find them in paint, dry-erase markers, glue and nail polish. All this three are permitted in Canada, The USA and the European Union. And the main news is that all three acetone is used most frequently in polish removers. About 20 years ago, scientists formulated new solvents and started marketing removers labelled non-acetone so some people started to think that acetone was toxic. But the reality is different. Acetone is present in the human body and has been mass produced by scientists for nearly 150 years. Truly, there is...