Natural Skin Care

Everyone should be able to assume that they use safe cosmetics. After all why would the cosmetics you use be dangerous? However, sadly, you can’t assume that you use safe cosmetics and you can’t assume that the government protects you from dangerous cosmetics. But surely the products that you use should be safe?

No you aren’t using safe cosmetics if you’re using big brand name cosmetics. The government doesn’t protect you against dangerous ingredients in your cosmetics and the cosmetics companies don’t either. There is a whole range of nasty ingredients in your big brand name cosmetics including lead, dioxane and parabens.

Surely the FDA stops this? Unfortunately no it doesn’t. The FDA doesn’t test to establish the safety of cosmetics ingredients, and it says this on the FDA website. The government doesn’t make any attempt to ensure that the ingredients of the cosmetics that you use now are safe for people to use on their bodies. As a result the cosmetics that are found on the shelves of stores all around the US pose a threat to the health of American women.

This situation has even spawned whole organizations committed to pressuring government and industry to use only proven safe ingredients in their products. The primary organization is called the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics.

Unfortunately neither the government or the cosmetics industry are listening to the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics, and nothing much is happening to improve the safety of those mascaras, blushes, eye shadows, face creams, lipsticks, bronzers and many more that most of us use, unaware that we may be damaging our health.

Here’s a couple of examples of unsafe cosmetics for you, though there are many.

The Campaign For Safe Cosmetics initiated laboratory testing of major brand name lipsticks in 2007. The report was astonishing. More than 50% of big brand name lipsticks, including some of the biggest names that you may well use now, contained lead. And you’re not even immune if you buy the most expensive brands, they were represented amongst the lipsticks that contained lead as well.

In 2002 laboratory testing found Phthalates, a family of industrial chemicals linked to birth defects and abnormalities in male genitals and feminization of males, in the majority of 72 common brand name personal care products, beauty products and cosmetics that we all use day to day. These included products by some of the biggest names in the industry, including Revlon, Christian Dior, Calvin Klein and Proctor and Gamble.

And products tested includes common everyday products used by almost everyone like toothpastes and shampoos.

There were 72 products tested. Phthalates were found in 52 of them and Phthalates weren’t listed on the labels.

Isn’t that scary?

Can you get safe cosmetics? Certainly you can, in fact the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics has a register of companies who sign it and commit themselves to producing cosmetics and skincare and beauty products using only safe ingredients. There are plenty of high quality safe cosmetics available, but they aren’t generally found on the shelves of your local department store.

But I’ll bet you’ve never heard of these small niche companies because they can’t compete with the big brands on TV advertising, but nevertheless they make excellent and safe ranges of cosmetics.

Visit my website to find out more about safe cosmetics.

Want to know where to find the best Natural Cosmetics? Head over to Peter’s webite Natural Health-Natural Skin Care and find out more about All Natural Skin Care Products as well.

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