Thank you and good points. Different salons have a variation of pricing these days indeed.

And your idea about being offered a mask is brilliant! I hope that does get adopted by salons for the sake of all those who wish to visit them. And if not, your idea brings more awareness to customers themselves bringing their own mask and being more accountable for their own health and safety.

Thank you and yes, the more awareness the better. We are making ourselves sick, both the customers and those doing the work for what? Artificial beauty?
More of us today have no interest whatsoever in visiting a nail salon, and keeping this toxic operation running. Our nails are beautiful in their natural state. Our diet—a healthy, natural, whole food diet—makes sure they are strong and white. What more can a person want…. No one needs to suffer to make that happen.

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I would LOVE to help in every way I can to continue to bring awareness to this issue !

That is an interesting point to bring up. It is unfortunate that often times in our society money negates other factors like health or the environment. But you are so right, we each have choices, we each make choices, and we also must respect each person’s journey. The worst part is those people are are making choices based on not knowing or not understanding the whole story, this is where education and various forms of inspiration are important to continue to awaken us further to the bigger picture of it all.

Thank you so much for your comment!

I am sorry to hear that your health is today paying the price for the lack of awareness or even safety guidelines in the cosmetic industry. As women, we can put on a lot of chemicals on ourselves in our lifetimes, but it is obvious that anyone working directly on a day to day basis with various cosmetic and hair chemicals, would pay the ultimate price.

And you are right, it can be a great industry, if it can be made safer. There are more natural products, and we could all benefit from them, as well as our environment.

Thank you for sharing your experience!

To me it really isn’t that shocking anymore as our society has adopted the “each person for himself approach”. The companies care to make the cheapest and most attractive product and most of us care about buying the cheapest and most attractive product. What most of us do not consider is whether the companies are also thinking of our health and the answer is no. So hence the consumer has to follow up on their own. Many do not like this…I am not sure why? Because personally I like making decisions for myself and not giving the power to someone else whom I really cannot trust as their interests are different from mine.

So as to your question: yes gasoline is very toxic to the human body whether it is the fumes themselves or the liquid should it become ingested. That is one of the main reasons back in the 80′s I believe they removed all leaded gas and now it is all unleaded. Not that this makes it safe, it just makes it a little less toxic both for us and the environment. However, because the nozzle ensures that the gas goes straight from the machine into our car’s tank there is very little direct exposure to us, so generally speaking it is a low risk case scenario. It would be a different story for a gas station worker who pumps gas for people all their life and/or someone who is subjected to regular spills and fumes.

It is funny because I get comments from a lot of teenagers on how they love pulling up to the gas station as they love the smell of gasoline…well that is unfortunately not something you want to be inhaling deeply.