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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Written by Peter Crump -
Natural Skin Health
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.
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Written by Peter Crump -
Natural Skin Health
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