Recent research from EWG and the Campaign for
Safe Cosmetics found an average of 14 chemicals in 17 name brand fragrance products, none of them listed on the label.
Not exact matches
Currently in Australia,
cosmetics (broadly defined as skin, hair, beauty, personal, baby, men's, candles — basically any product that you
find on the
cosmetics floor of a department store) contain chemicals that have mostly never been tested for safety and that are used in
cosmetics on the basis they are
safe until proven otherwise.
Finding a
safe, non-toxic nail polish is important if you are going to introduce this
cosmetic to your child.
Big corporations are beginning to
find safer alternatives such as using grapefruit seed extract as a preservative, to reformulate the product using fewer ingredients or to choose different packaging, said Janet Nudelman, cofounder of Campaign for
Safe Cosmetics, the group that blew the whistle on Johnson & Johnson and now praises it.
Aluminum is
found in food products, anti-perspirants,
cosmetics, cookware, colorings and much more, but is it actually
safe?
Shop Eco: Tired of feeling confused about how to
find brands that were truly
safe for herself and her family, Debra Purdy began researching
cosmetic and cleaning product ingredients when she took over ownership in 2012.
There is good news, though: a recent study of female teens — the people most likely to use the most beauty products every day —
found that chemical levels in the body from toxic
cosmetics can drop significantly after only a few days of abandoning toxic products in place of
safer ones.7
According to a new report released by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), commissioned by the Campaign for
Safe Cosmetics, seventeen name brand perfume products were
found to contain a «complex cocktail of natural essences and synthetic chemicals - often petrochemicals,» including diethyl phthalate, a chemical linked to sperm damage in adult men and abnormal development of reproductive organs in baby boys.