Health Wealth Matters

Are Your Cosmetics Safe To Use?

Written by Peter Albertonach on September 9th, 2009

Mainstream brand cosmetics have suspect, or even dangerous ingredients. Are there safe cosmetics?

It’s unfortunate but the FDA doesn’t test the ingredients going into cosmetics and doesn’t have to satisfy itself that they are safe for us to use. Or safe for human consumption.

Human consumption? Isn’t that a little silly, we don’t eat our cosmetics.

Well in effect we do. When you put a skin care product or a cosmetic product on your face some of it is absorbed into your skin, and from there it gets into your bloodstream, just as if you had eaten it.

Some of the ingredients, including potentially dangerous ingredients, have found their way into your system.

And sadly there are some very nasty ingredients in our body care products, cosmetics, skin care and anti aging products and other beauty products. Our lipsticks, mascaras, blushes, foundations, eye shadows and more have ingredients in them that have been shown to cause cancer.

Here’s a quote from the FDA that might make you wonder:

The regulatory requirements governing the sale of cosmetics are not as stringent as those that apply to other FDA-regulated products Manufacturers may use any ingredient or raw material, except for color additives and a few prohibited substances, to market a product without a government review or approval.

Scary isnt it?

There is even an organization to fight the proliferation of dangerous ingredients in cosmetics, called the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics.

If you get to their website you’ll find they say this.

1. A study has found that some (more than half of those tested) major big name brands of lipstick contain lead, including:

True Red Christian Dior Addict LOreal Colour Riche Cover Girl Incredifull Lipcolor Maximum Red and Positive Red were all there. And the lipsticks containing lead included some expensive brands.

2. And there are some brands of cosmetics, or some individual products, that contain 1,4-Dioxane, and if you look on their labels you won’t find it listed as an ingredient.

And theres lots more examples, no need to list them all here, although I’ve talked about this in more depth in relation to dangerous ingredients in skincare products on my website. So can you find safe cosmetics?

Yes it’s perfectly possible to find safe cosmetics, just as it’s perfectly possible to find very effective and very safe skin care products as well.

There are a number of small niche cosmetics companies that work very hard to produce safe and high quality cosmetics ranges for the canny consumer. The Campaign For Safe Cosmetics actually has a register that these companies can sign to evidence their commitment to producing safe products, though you won’t find the big brands have signed it.

They can’t compete with the big brands on TV advertising, so chances are you’ve never heard of them, but their products are top shelf, though you won’t actually find them on any of the shelves of the stores.

If you head over to my website you’ll find out who are the very best of the manufacturers of high quality skin care products and cosmetics.

So whether you’re looking for skin care, or cosmetics, you can buy your products comfortable in the knowledge that you aren’t putting your health at risk.

Want to know more about Dangerous Cosmetics? Visit Peter’s Website Natural Health-Organic Skin Care and find out more about Organic Skin Care Products.

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