Return to Home Page. Your body's largest organ, your skin, absorbs toxins, not only from what touches the skin, but from chemicals in the air. Your skin actually breathes and if your skin permeability has been compromised, passage of toxins through your skin into your body is even easier.
Jack-o-lanterns are made from carved pumpkins. This tradtion originally began in Europe, particularly Ireland, where they carved other root vegetbales, like turnips. In Amerâ¦ica, the tradition switched over to pumpkins because they were larger and easier to carve and more native to growing in the United States.
The first example of the jack o'lantern appearing in American literature is in an 1837 story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, who wrote The Scarlet Letter. The carved lantern didn't become associated with Halloween until around the time of the Civil War.