The average woman who wears make up daily will absorb almost 5lbs of make up each and every year and men slather, smear and spray their own share of products.
Product containing an average 126 individual ingredients – but they’re safe and FDA approved right?
Not so fast…
In the US there are approximately 82,000 registered chemicals & 10,500 are used in cosmetics. Of these 10,500 chemicals less than 10% have been evaluated for safety by the CIR, the FDA or any other publicly accountable institution.
Incidentally, the government approves on average 7 new chemicals every day – the evaluation of most chemicals taking less that 3 weeks.
But the make-up sits on our skin, right?
Not exactly…
Scientists have found many common cosmetic ingredients in human tissues….including phthalates, parabens and a fragrance ingredient musk xylene. Conclusively we don’t know these ingredients are harmful, the trouble is we don’t know that they’re safe either.
The good news is that there are products that we can choose that are safer.
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