Be prepared to be shocked. Our skin care products and cosmetics are dangerous.

Over the life of this website we have sought to alert our readers to the dangers of modern skin care products, cosmetics, personal and beauty care products such as shampoos, soaps and deodorants and much more.

And we have also sought to publicize the work of organizations such as the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics who are tirelessly working to publicise the dangers of modern personal products.

Unfortunately in the US so many personal products such as skin care products and cosmetics and much more contain chemical and petrochemical ingredients which are risky to your health and in some cases are known to cause cancer.

And our government does nothing about it.

The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics has now released a hard hitting must see video about the dangers of modern cosmetics and skin care products and in fact virtually all personal and beauty products, (unless you choose very wisely).

We bring that video to you  here.

Remember, skin care and cosmetics companies can pledge themselves to producing only safe products using known safe ingredients, so it’s entirely possible to purchase SAFE (and extremely effective) skin care products using known safe ingredients. They can do this by signing the Compact at the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics.

In our view the skin care products of Xtend Life are the best, and safest, skin care products by far. The company has signed the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics compact, and produces extremely high quality, and safe, skin care products.

Here’s the video.
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Although there’s been a lot of bad news about safe cosmetics, it’s not all bad.

We’ve written extensively about dangerous ingredients in cosmetics and skin care products, and also about the importance of using natural skin care products that don’t contain dangerous ingredients.

And we’ve highlighted some of the studies done which show such problems with cosmetics and skin care products like lead in lipsticks and phthalates in personal and beauty and body care products. And also about parabens in skin care products and cosmetics.

From time to time come good news comes along and today is such a day. The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics has alerted us today that they have detected a decline in the levels of phthalates in some products. In particular they point to the perfume Poison.

They found 4 different phthalates in Poison during the last test, but this time they have tested Poison and found it to be – less poisonous. No phthalates at all. This is great news and means, it appears, that the body care and cosmetics and perfume companies are starting to take notice of the fact that the public don’t want poisonous ingredients in their cosmetics and skin care products.

It would seem obvious wouldn’t it?

But a small step is an important one nevertheless. And the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics says it isn’t confined just to Poison, but there are signs that some of the bigger companies are slowly removing poisonous ingredients like phthalates from their products this has to be good.

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