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Calcium, lime, and some heavy metals that “harden” water can also break down the acid mantle, cause irritation and redness, trigger eczema, and cause hair breakage and dryness. When calcium settles on the skin, it can change your oil chemistry, which usually hinders the skin’s ability to moisturize itself. Even after using the most expensive soaps or shower gels, hardness minerals can combine with the products to clog pores and leave your skin feeling dry and sticky from the soap residue. The clogged pores can then lead to acne breakouts, eczema, rashes, pimples, blemishes, itching, inflammation, and many other skin conditions.

Long-term exposure to arsenic can wreak havoc on the skin. Research shows that after about five years, chronic exposure to the chemical element can lead to pre-malignant skin lesions, increased risk of skin cancers, and other skin changes, such as thickening and pigmentation. Other effects may include light and dark spots, thickened skin on the palms, soles, and the body’s trunk.

The skin acts as a protective barrier against bacterial infections. However, the skin itself becomes infected at times. Generally, when bacteria come in contact with your skin, they usually don’t cause an infection. But when an infection does occur, it typically begins as small red bumps that gradually increase in size. Bacterial infection of the skin can also cause skin tenderness, rashes, itching, pain, blisters, pus, skin slouching or breakdown, discolored skin, etc. Bacterial skin infections can develop when bacteria enter the skin through hair follicles or through small breakages in the skin that result from animal or insect bites, scrapes, surgery, sunburns, burns, wounds, or pre-existing skin conditions.

VOCs, such as pesticides, herbicides, fertilizer treatments, and other chemicals, are incredibly toxic to human health. Not only are some of them carcinogenic (cancer-causing), but they are unsafe for skin health, causing contact dermatitis, blistering, pain, fungi, hyperpigmentation of the affected area, skin burning, skin cancers, and other irritations.

Several adverse skin-related health effects associated with chromium-6 exposure include skin irritation, severe skin rash, and allergic contact dermatitis. Allergic contact dermatitis is long-lasting and severe with repeated skin exposure. Besides, contact with non-intact skin can lead to ulceration of the skin (AKA chrome ulcers). Chrome ulcers are crusted, painless lesions showing a pitted ulcer covered with fluid.