How many of you know the time it takes for a solvent to breach the outermost layer of the skin? Three researchers took the time and effort to find out just that. According to the results, they found that skin absorption contributed from 29 to 91 percent of the total dose, with an average of 64 percent.

The only talk we ever hear in regard to solvents and what the skin can absorb has always been surrounding industrial or job-related circumstances. No one ever talks about what people are exposed to in and out of the home. Oddly enough, numerous investigators have studied the workings of the skin and how it protects us from the penetration of solvents and contaminates since the mid-sixties.

After years of tests and research, they deduced that skin absorption of contaminants in municipal water has been highly underestimated and that drinking or ingesting municipal water may not represent the only or even primary route of exposure. Additionally, the absorption of contaminants through the skin to the body as a whole is not the only damage