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 actually, in effect, we do. You see when you put a product like a moisturizer or blush or whatever product it may be onto our face a little of it soaks in and that little bit gets into your bloodstream exactly as if you had eaten it.

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

And there really are some quite nasty ingredients in cosmetics. And in skin care and anti aging products, personal and beauty and body care products and more. Lipsticks, mascaras, eye shadows, bronzers, blushes, foundations and other cosmetics have been found to have dangerous ingredients in them, some of which have been shown to cause cancer.

Heres a quote direct from the FDA website:

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.

Do you find that a little scary?

The problem is so bad that there are now entire organizations set up to try and stop the spread of dangerous ingredients in our cosmetics. One of them, possibly the best known, is the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics.

Look at their website and you’ll find this:

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

Christian Dior Addict Cover Girl Incredifull Lipcolor Maximum Red True Red and Positive Red LOreal Colour Riche were included. And the tainted lipsticks included some expensive brands too, so it doesn’t help to pay more.

2. Some cosmetics are contaminated with 1,4-Dioxane, and it isnt of course listed on the labels, so there is no way of telling which ones.

There’s dozens of examples, I won’t bore you listing them all, though I talk about this on my website. But the real question is, how do you find safe cosmetics?

Yes you can, just like you can find safe skin care products.

There are in fact a range of niche cosmetics and skin care companies that produce ranges of high quality safe cosmetics and anti aging skin care products as well, which work very well, better than the (unsafe) big brands actually. And the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics has made it easier by offering a pledge that any company can sign to evidence it’s commitment to making safe products. And the big brands haven’t signed it.

Unfortunately these small companies can’t even try to compete with the big brands on marketing budget so you won’t see their ads on TV, and so have probably never heard of them. But they have top shelf products to sell.

Find out where to source high quality safe and highly effective cosmetics and skin care products on my website.

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.

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