It would be reasonable to assume that we don't need to ask the question, are our cosmetics safe? Safe cosmetics should be taken for granted shouldn't they? After all, we have a government and corporations that look after our interests?
No you aren't using safe cosmetics if you're using big brand name cosmetics. The government doesn't protect you against dangerous ingredients in your cosmetics and the cosmetics companies don't either. There is a whole range of nasty ingredients in your big brand name cosmetics including lead, dioxane and parabens.
The FDA doesn't test the ingredients found in mainstream cosmetics, and so the big brand companies can, and do, put anything that they want in their products. The government doesn't protect the women of America against corporations that are prepared to use unsafe ingredients to sell their products.
This situation has even spawned whole organizations committed to pressuring government and industry to use only proven safe ingredients in their products. The primary organization is called the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics.
Unfortunately neither the government or the cosmetics industry are listening to the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics, and nothing much is happening to improve the safety of those mascaras, blushes, eye shadows, face creams, lipsticks, bronzers and many more that most of us use, unaware that we may be damaging our health.
Here's just 2 examples but there's lots.
The Campaign For Safe Cosmetics initiated laboratory testing of major brand name lipsticks in 2007. The report was astonishing. More than 50% of big brand name lipsticks, including some of the biggest names that you may well use now, contained lead. And you're not even immune if you buy the most expensive brands, they were represented amongst the lipsticks that contained lead as well.
In 2002 laboratory testing found Phthalates, a family of industrial chemicals linked to birth defects and abnormalities in male genitals and feminization of males, in the majority of 72 common brand name personal care products, beauty products and cosmetics that we all use day to day. These included products by some of the biggest names in the industry, including Revlon, Christian Dior, Calvin Klein and Proctor and Gamble.
And this includes such common and everyday products like shampoos and toothpastes.
Of the 72 tested 52 contained Phthalates, and of course the labels didn't disclose this.
Scary isn't it?
Is it possible to buy safe cosmetics? Yes it is, in fact the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics runs a register of companies that are prepared to sign a compact pledging the company to make products using only known safe ingredients. And there are some excellent safe cosmetics to be found, but you won't find them on the shelves of your local store.
But it's unlikely you've ever heard of these small niche cosmetics companies, because they don't advertise on TV. But their products are top quality, and safe.
Find out more about safe cosmetics at my website.
No you aren't using safe cosmetics if you're using big brand name cosmetics. The government doesn't protect you against dangerous ingredients in your cosmetics and the cosmetics companies don't either. There is a whole range of nasty ingredients in your big brand name cosmetics including lead, dioxane and parabens.
The FDA doesn't test the ingredients found in mainstream cosmetics, and so the big brand companies can, and do, put anything that they want in their products. The government doesn't protect the women of America against corporations that are prepared to use unsafe ingredients to sell their products.
This situation has even spawned whole organizations committed to pressuring government and industry to use only proven safe ingredients in their products. The primary organization is called the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics.
Unfortunately neither the government or the cosmetics industry are listening to the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics, and nothing much is happening to improve the safety of those mascaras, blushes, eye shadows, face creams, lipsticks, bronzers and many more that most of us use, unaware that we may be damaging our health.
Here's just 2 examples but there's lots.
The Campaign For Safe Cosmetics initiated laboratory testing of major brand name lipsticks in 2007. The report was astonishing. More than 50% of big brand name lipsticks, including some of the biggest names that you may well use now, contained lead. And you're not even immune if you buy the most expensive brands, they were represented amongst the lipsticks that contained lead as well.
In 2002 laboratory testing found Phthalates, a family of industrial chemicals linked to birth defects and abnormalities in male genitals and feminization of males, in the majority of 72 common brand name personal care products, beauty products and cosmetics that we all use day to day. These included products by some of the biggest names in the industry, including Revlon, Christian Dior, Calvin Klein and Proctor and Gamble.
And this includes such common and everyday products like shampoos and toothpastes.
Of the 72 tested 52 contained Phthalates, and of course the labels didn't disclose this.
Scary isn't it?
Is it possible to buy safe cosmetics? Yes it is, in fact the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics runs a register of companies that are prepared to sign a compact pledging the company to make products using only known safe ingredients. And there are some excellent safe cosmetics to be found, but you won't find them on the shelves of your local store.
But it's unlikely you've ever heard of these small niche cosmetics companies, because they don't advertise on TV. But their products are top quality, and safe.
Find out more about safe cosmetics at my website.
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