A new study links chemicals in cosmetics with hormones in teenage girls.

It’s not news to you if you’re a regular reader of this website that mainstream skin care products and cosmetics contain dangerous ingredients.  We’ve talked before about the nasty ingredients and chemicals in cosmetics. However here’s a new study.

It links cosmetic use with dangerous chemicals that may disrupt the hormones of maturing teenage girls. The Environmental Working Group tested the urine of girls aged between 14 and 20 and found that there was chemicals from 4 families of chemicals in EVERY sample tested.

The chemical families are Phthalates, Parabens, Musks and Triclosan.

And some of these chemicals have been linked to possible disruption of hormones in girls.

So really there’s a giant trial going on to see if these chemicals found in cosmetics and skin care products are dangerous to the hormonal development of our daughters, and everyone else who uses cosmetics and skin care products. It’s unregulated and no one really knows what the results will be, but if it turns out that having these chemicals in our cosmetics is dangerous to our children, (and of course us too) then it’s too late.

Luckily there are both safe cosmetics and safe skin care products available using natural non toxic ingredients. Luckily too, they work extremely well and are very price competitive.

Find out more about safe cosmetics and safe effective natural skin care products, or find the best safe cosmetics. Read the rest of this entry

If there are dangerous ingredients in skin care products shouldn’t the FDA act?

I’ve talked before about some of the dangerous ingredients in skin care products and cosmetics in general. Read more about Natural Skin Care and dangerous ingredients. This article isn’t to talk about that.

This time I’m going to talk about what is done about dangerous ingredients in skin care products. Because there seems little doubt that there are suspect for even dangerous cosmetic ingredients in our cosmetics and skin care products.

I want to refer you to 2 sources that seem pretty unequivocal about this, and show pretty clearly that the FDA does not regulate the cosmetics and skin care and anti aging industries.

The first one is directly from the FDA website. It seems clear that the FDA regulates a “drug” but doesn’t regulate a “cosmetic”. Here’s a quote directly from their website:

“The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act defines drugs as those products that cure, treat, mitigate or prevent disease or that affect the structure or function of the human body. While drugs are subject to a review and approval process by FDA, cosmetics are not approved by FDA prior to sale.”

That seems pretty clear doesn’t it? If it’s a cosmetic it isn’t regulated by the FDA.

So if it isn’t regulated then if there are dangerous ingredients in skin care products and cosmetics and also anti aging products the FDA doesn’t do anything about it.

Here’s another quote from the FDA:

“FDA does not have a premarket approval system for cosmetic products or ingredients”.

Hmmmmm!

How about this. A quote from the Cosmetic Safety Database:

“Due to gaping loopholes in federal law, companies can put virtually any ingredient into personal care products. Even worse, the government does not require pre-market safety tests for any of them.”

Hmmmmm again!

So if the cosmetics and anti aging industry is unregulated, it’s up to the industry to regulate itself. To stop itself from putting dangerous or suspect ingredients in skin care products and cosmetics, even if it will make more money doing so.

Do you believe that big business will self regulate to avoid harming their customers where there is lots of money to be made? I don’t.

Just look at the tobacco industry. They’ve been killing their own customers for profit for decades, and lying about it too.So I thought I’d just tell you a little more about why you should be suspect about your skin care products.

Not all of them. There are excellent and safe natural skin care products, you just won’t have heard of the company that makes them, and you won’t find them on the shelves of your local drugstore either. Read the rest of this entry