Eeeek!

The season of petroleum based products is upon me. Any of you who have visited me here at this blog for the past several years knows that I have a really bad allergy to petroleum. If petroleum touches my lips I end up with swollen, cracked and bleeding lips.

But it's this time of year that people slather the stuff on. Hand lotions, lip balms, all kinds of crap has petroleum/petrolatum in it. I have to read the ingredients on everything. Burts Bees lipbalm doesn't have petroleum in it, and it leaves you with a minty, tingly feeling.

Also, St. Ives doesn't have petroleum in it. I actually buy the other women in the office this hand lotion so that when they touch my invoices I won't end up with petroleum on my hands.

Anyway, petroleum is nasty shit. The body can't break it down. It's really a toxin. Everyone should avoid putting it on their skin. It's bad, bad, bad, BAD for you!

Okay, mini-rant over.