Find Out If YOUR Skin Care Products Are Dangerous
You need to find out whether the products you may be buying now could be hazardous.
We’ve talked before about dangerous skin care products, and how there may well be hazardous ingredients in the skin care products that you may well buy now.
How there is little FDA regulation or control of what ingredients skincare companies can use in their skincare products, and for that matter in cosmetics either, and that this can result in skincare products and anti aging products with ingredients in them that are considered to be hazardous.
And when it comes to buying great skin care products, the very FIRST consideration for you, the consumer, is that the product doesn’t have the potential to do you harm.
Many skin care products don’t perform well, or do nothing at all for promoting great looking healthy skin. But when they can actually harm your skin, or your health, that’s another matter entirely.
So if you buy skin care products and anti aging products now, and are wondering if any of those products could be hazardous, what do you do about it?
There’s a way to research this. There is an organization called the Environmental Working Group which runs the Cosmetic Safety Database, which reports on the companies, and the products, that may be worth avoiding. They list products according to the degree of risk ingredients in those products may pose to users.
It’s listed on a scale of 1 to 10 where 1 is lower risk, or hazard, and 10 is maximum hazard.
So you don’t want to find that the products YOU use are a 7 or 8 on the hazard scale.
Find out.
Just go to the Cosmetic Safety Database and search either the product that you use or the company that makes it. You’ll see the search tool right there on their home page.
I just searched “Olay” for an example. The database tells me that Olay has 279 products listed from 1 to 9. I clicked the “OLAY AGE DEFYING AGE DEFYING ANTI-WRINKLE DAILY LOTION, SPF 15″.
It tells me that this product rates a hazard rating of 7 out of 10, and is not recommended. And it tells you what the problems with it are. It tells you that the products ingredients are linked to:
1. Cancer.
2. Developmental/reproductive toxicity.
3. Allergies.
4 And a list of other concerns.
(and that the company tests on animals too. And that they haven’t signed the Compact for Safe Cosmetics.)
So if you’ve read our site, and you’re concerned about the safety of the products you may be using, including sunscreens, skincare products, anti aging products, cosmetics and more, you can research exactly what the problems you face may be.
What Do You Do About It?
Use high quality natural skin care products that don’t contain harmful ingredients. Xtend Life make the best skin care products in the world, not only are they safe to use, they are also the most effective skin care products and anti aging products on the market.
So if you’re worried about the safety of your current skin care products or cosmetics, you now have a tool to find out.
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(And make sure you read our page about Natural Skin Care, it's quite an eye opener about modern skin care products.)
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Actually the information you have provided is inaccurate, xtend life has many harmful ingredients according to the cosmetic safety database. I was very shocked, I thought I had finally found a product that was safe enough for me to use on my delicate skin, I always make sure I do extensive research on any product I have interest on using on my skin. Why did you post this information.
Hi Gia, I’m Peter who wrote that article and I’d like to respond.
You’re right, when you search the Cosmetic Safety Database there are 2 products showing from Xtend Life with a score of 4. Whilst 4 is not high it’s still a score and so I thought I’d look at this in more detail.
Products safety is a personal issue for me, and the reason why I first started writing on this. My own 8 year old daughter had a terrible reaction to cosmetics used on her face on the occasion of her first ballet concert and when I started to try and find out why I was stunned by what I found out. I had no idea that there were such suspect ingredients in so many products that all of us use every day.
I very strongly believe that the products from Xtend Life are safe. I have corresponded with them a number of times in the past, have read almost all the material on their website, (there’s a lot on their site when you get into it), and have spent quite some time researching safe and unsafe products. I am more and more convinced of their commitment to product safety each time.
However I was disturbed to see that score of 4, and so I decided to find out why. I was/am totally convinced that if there were any dangerous ingredients in their products they would immediately remove them. But nevertheless, why was there a 4?
So I started to correspond with Mr Warren Matthews about this. He is the chairman of the company, and I figured that I may as well ask the man at the top to explain. He was very accomodating. He also uses the products, (as I do), and so is also personally interested in product safety. So I sent him your comment, word for word, to comment on himself.
His reply pointed me to a blog post he did about the Cosmetic Safety Database a while ago. You can read it here: http://blog.xtend-life.com/warren_matthews_blog/2009/5/10/a-case-where-a-well-meaning-organization-gets-it-wrong.html?id=999766
Basically what he’s saying is that although the Database is trying to provide people with a way to find out what products are safe or not, they can’t always get it right.
And that it can be very challenging to determine the exact risk of some ingredients, and that there are always degrees of opinion. I know this to be true because I look at this stuff all the time, and there is rarely any black or white answer to ingredient risk. Only shades of grey.
It’s up to you to decide who or what you believe, there’s no definitive answers. But I repeat that from all my experience Xtend Life have a greater commitment to product safety than perhaps any other skin care company in the world.
I’ll close by repeating something Warren Matthews told me in correspondence today. He has now asked for his staff to talk to the people at the Database to thrash out some issues and see if there is any reason why they consider any ingredients in the Xtend Life range to be in any way dangerous.
He concluded by saying (I quote) “If by chance anything was found that was less than desirable then we will alter the formulation.”
I believe him. It’s up to you of course to decide for yourself how you view this issue.
I wish all the best with your search for safe products for sensitive skin care. I personally believe that those from Xtend Life will probably do the job for you better than any others, but either way I hope you find some products that deliver the result you want.
Best wishes
Peter