#toxic makeup

[seabrightodyssey]

September 30th

[nerdyoils-blog]

Does your makeup REALLY love your skin? Probably not. 

Women put an average of 168 chemicals on their bodies daily. And did you know the FDA doesn’t require any pre-market testing or approval before beauty products hit the shelves? So many ingredients in U.S. products have been banned in Europe and other countries, as scientific studies suggest that they could be linked to cancer, reproductive harm and neurotoxicity. The FDA knows this, but allows it to happen. When I started making my own makeup, I looked into selling it. Because of this, I spent days reading the entire FDA’s website for cosmetics. I was horrified by it. I had always thought some testing went into it. But honestly, someone could go outside get mud off the ground and sell it as foundation!

So I went on a hunt. I’ve used so many different foundation brands in my life. I picked up one I know I lot of my friends use, Urban Decay Naked Skin. I loved this stuff as a teen, but I had issues with it. I never knew why till I got older. My skin would always be really red (a lot redder than normal. I had breakouts all the time despite using acne creams, and it burned my skin. And in those ingredients were concerns for organ system toxicity (non-reproductive), a danger to sea substances that are harmful to the environment, hormone disruptors, synthetics, parabens, and adverse effect on the structure or function of the central and/or peripheral nervous system. And all that was just from one ingredient, the others weren’t much better!

And even if one ingredient is bad and others aren't does not make the product safe for use. And just because you don’t see signs of damage now doesn't mean a few years down the road you won't. Believe me, it’s happening and it’s something you should worry about.

[healthykidneyinc-blog]

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) of Ghana stated on Tuesday that the ban on the import of all cosmetic products that contain hydroquinone is very much in force and cautioned the public to be very aware of the ingredients in their moisturizers, creams and foundations. Hydroquinone is a skin lightener commonly used in dark-mark …

[danskjavlarna]

From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1878. 

It’s been said that “skeletons symbolize everyone’s condition in the world, where we are all left abandoned and starving, longing desperately for union with and nourishment from heaven and earth”: see my skeletons gallery.

[tailorsinmotion]

This image is about how many chemicals we put into our body with makeup and beauty products alone. We find this number pretty insane, and it is definitely part of the reason why many people choose not to wear makeup everyday, and only minimally when they do.  Click the image for an article on bodyunburdened.com. Post by C.H-C.

[healthychicinc]

It's easy to dig a lipstick out of your purse and slide some sexy color on your lips.  It's not food, right?  So why do you need to fret about the ingredients?  

With food, the FDA regulates what goes into a product that sits on the supermarket shelves... but that's not the case with cosmetics.  Only a small portion these products are regulated.  For the most part companies have free rein over what they chose to put in cosmetics: if you read labels that can be scarier than any horror flick.  

And if you think you're not actually eating that scarlet shimmer lipstick, think again. 

Check out the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, Kiss Lead Goodbye! Contest Winner.

You'll never pucker up at lipstick the same way again. 

[wholelifeholistics-blog-blog]

Skin Deep Cosmetic Database

The old expression might say "beauty is only skin deep", but that's not the case for cosmetic chemicals and toxins.

The Environmental Working Group's Skin Deep Cosmetic Database is definitely a new personal fav for checking out the true health vs toxicity level of your products. Remember your skin is your biggest organ... makes it kind of gross to think about all of the toxic, clogging, hormone-disrupting goo we're constantly putting onto (therefore, IN TO) our bodies.

EWG's Skin Deep is an online safety guide for cosmetics and personal care products, launched in 2004 to help people find safer products, with fewer ingredients that are hazardous or that haven't been thoroughly tested. Skin Deep combines product ingredient lists with information in more than 50 standard toxicity and regulatory databases. The database provides easy-to-navigate safety ratings for tens of thousands of personal care products.

I loved that the 17 Keys, Inc. products listed on the database received the lowest hazard number possible (0-2), or a "Champion Status". My favorite product, Keys RediCare spray received a 0, containing no ingredients that have been linked to cancer, toxicity, allergies, immunotoxicity.