Last evening’s lesson on how to safeguard our health from the haze by Professor Wang, a quantum physic-biochemistry authority and a cell expert, was a significant and educational wake-up call. I couldn’t wait to pen down the important learning points and share them with you.
We’re facing an air pollution of immense crisis level at presence due to large-scale forest fires in Indonesia. Large amounts of particulate matter emitted by the fires suspend in the atmosphere and it has reached so high a concentration level that on some days it hides nearby buildings from our sight.

What’s most scary about the health impact is not just the fine ash particulate, but the presence of toxic compounds in the air. In this context, carcinogenic compounds such as Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) are the real, but little known, dangers.

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) are formed during combustion processes of organic, carbon-containing material such as wood, coal, diesel, fat, or tobacco, with insufficient oxygen supply (incomplete combustion). Forest fires create PAHs on a frighteningly massive scale! And such PAHs are oil-based and not water-soluble, i.e. unable to wash off once inhaled into our lungs or contact with our skin.

PAHs comprise of more than 100 different multi-ringed compounds of which many are known to be carcinogenic.

Due to their low vapor pressure, most PAHs immediately condense and adsorb onto particulate or form very small particles themselves (average diameter 1µm).

In urban areas, motor vehicles are the major source of PAHs in the atmosphere, followed by residential wood/(char)-coal combustion and industrial production processes. During this time of haze crisis, forest fires represent the most significant source of PAHs over a dangerously prolonged period.

PAHs are traditionally adsorbed on very fine particulate (diameter less than 10 µm), which are not restrained in the upper respiratory tract and consequently penetrate deep into the lungs. In the lungs, the adsorbed PAH may pass into the blood stream or may react locally with the lung tissue and cause lung tumors. It’s now left to us to take active measure to cleanse the air that we inhale to safeguard our respiratory health against cough, flu, sore throat and inflammation.
Moreover at an average diameter of 1µm per PAH, about 100 PAHs can fill into each skin pore. As such, PAHs also enter our body through our exposed skin and can potentially cause long term harm or even cancers to our skin and face. Being oil-based, they are tough to get rid off using water-based cleanser.

Unlike our respiratory system which has a highly developed filtration mechanism, our skin is not particularly well accustomed to handling a massive and sustained onslaught by toxic, fine pollutants as in the current haze crisis. With rain expected only towards the end of October, the stress buildup is potentially harmful if we don’t take active precaution to safeguard the health of our skin/face.

To minimize the fine particulates in the air that my family and I breathe, I diffuse Bel’Air Essential Oil daily in my home and office, and also in my car. The quality of the air is markedly improved with Bel’Air.

To help my skin fight the haze, my family and I use Bel’Air Deep Oil Removal to effect a deep cleansing of the oil-based PAHs from the pores, Bel’Air’s enzyme-action Exfoliator to rid damaged and dead keratin, Bel’Air Pentapeptide to effect rapid overnight repair to the skin cells, and finally Bel’Air Whitener to restore, whiten and protect healthy skin cells.

If you are interested to find out how you too can safeguard yourself and your family members from the haze dangers, and to experience for yourself the Bel’Air application routine, I would be most pleased to share the details with you. Just call me or reply this email with your contact/time to call.

I sincerely hope this info is useful for you. Kindly take extra care during this hazy time.