Are You Using Dangerous Cosmetics?
The big name cosmetics lines that you find in your stores and that you may even be using today have suspect or even dangerous ingredients in them. Where do you find safe cosmetics to use?
Sadly the FDA doesn't regulate cosmetics, and isn't required to test the ingredients of cosmetics for safety for human use. Or safe for human consumption.
Well that's going overboard isn't it? Human consumption? We don't eat cosmetics.
Well actually, in effect, we do. You see when you put a product like a moisturizer or blush or whatever product it may be onto our face a little of it soaks in and that little bit gets into your bloodstream exactly as if you had eaten it.
Potentially dangerous ingredients have got into your system even though you didn't intend it.
And sadly there are some very nasty ingredients in our body care products, cosmetics, skin care and anti aging products and other beauty products. Our lipsticks, mascaras, blushes, foundations, eye shadows and more have ingredients in them that have been shown to cause cancer.
Heres a quote direct from the FDA website:
The regulatory requirements governing the sale of cosmetics are not as stringent as those that apply to other FDA-regulated products Manufacturers may use any ingredient or raw material, except for color additives and a few prohibited substances, to market a product without a government review or approval.
Scary isnt it?
There are even whole organizations set up to combat the spread of dangerous ingredients in cosmetics and other personal products. One well known one is called the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics.
Look at their website and you'll find this:
1. A study has found that some (more than half of those tested) major big name brands of lipstick contain lead, including:
Christian Dior Addict Cover Girl Incredifull Lipcolor Maximum Red True Red and Positive Red LOreal Colour Riche were included. And the tainted lipsticks included some expensive brands too, so it doesn't help to pay more.
2. Some cosmetics also contain 1,4-Dioxane. If you look at the label of these brands you won't find it listed on the label, so you can't tell.
There's dozens of examples, I won't bore you listing them all, though I talk about this on my website. But the real question is, how do you find safe cosmetics?
Yes you can find safe cosmetics, just as you can find safe (and very effective) safe skin care products.
There are a number of small niche cosmetics companies that work very hard to produce safe and high quality cosmetics ranges for the canny consumer. The Campaign For Safe Cosmetics actually has a register that these companies can sign to evidence their commitment to producing safe products, though you won't find the big brands have signed it.
Unfortunately these small companies can't even try to compete with the big brands on marketing budget so you won't see their ads on TV, and so have probably never heard of them. But they have top shelf products to sell.
If you head over to my website you'll find out who are the very best of the manufacturers of high quality skin care products and cosmetics.
Whether you want to source good cosmetics or skin care products you can buy with confidence that you aren't putting your health at risk.
Sadly the FDA doesn't regulate cosmetics, and isn't required to test the ingredients of cosmetics for safety for human use. Or safe for human consumption.
Well that's going overboard isn't it? Human consumption? We don't eat cosmetics.
Well actually, in effect, we do. You see when you put a product like a moisturizer or blush or whatever product it may be onto our face a little of it soaks in and that little bit gets into your bloodstream exactly as if you had eaten it.
Potentially dangerous ingredients have got into your system even though you didn't intend it.
And sadly there are some very nasty ingredients in our body care products, cosmetics, skin care and anti aging products and other beauty products. Our lipsticks, mascaras, blushes, foundations, eye shadows and more have ingredients in them that have been shown to cause cancer.
Heres a quote direct from the FDA website:
The regulatory requirements governing the sale of cosmetics are not as stringent as those that apply to other FDA-regulated products Manufacturers may use any ingredient or raw material, except for color additives and a few prohibited substances, to market a product without a government review or approval.
Scary isnt it?
There are even whole organizations set up to combat the spread of dangerous ingredients in cosmetics and other personal products. One well known one is called the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics.
Look at their website and you'll find this:
1. A study has found that some (more than half of those tested) major big name brands of lipstick contain lead, including:
Christian Dior Addict Cover Girl Incredifull Lipcolor Maximum Red True Red and Positive Red LOreal Colour Riche were included. And the tainted lipsticks included some expensive brands too, so it doesn't help to pay more.
2. Some cosmetics also contain 1,4-Dioxane. If you look at the label of these brands you won't find it listed on the label, so you can't tell.
There's dozens of examples, I won't bore you listing them all, though I talk about this on my website. But the real question is, how do you find safe cosmetics?
Yes you can find safe cosmetics, just as you can find safe (and very effective) safe skin care products.
There are a number of small niche cosmetics companies that work very hard to produce safe and high quality cosmetics ranges for the canny consumer. The Campaign For Safe Cosmetics actually has a register that these companies can sign to evidence their commitment to producing safe products, though you won't find the big brands have signed it.
Unfortunately these small companies can't even try to compete with the big brands on marketing budget so you won't see their ads on TV, and so have probably never heard of them. But they have top shelf products to sell.
If you head over to my website you'll find out who are the very best of the manufacturers of high quality skin care products and cosmetics.
Whether you want to source good cosmetics or skin care products you can buy with confidence that you aren't putting your health at risk.
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