Are Your Cosmetics Dangerous To Your Health?

The big name cosmetics lines that you find in your stores and that you may even be using today have suspect or even dangerous ingredients in them. Where do you find safe cosmetics to use?

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 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.

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?

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.

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

1. A study of big brand name lipsticks has found that a majority of them had lead in them.

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. 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.

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 find safe cosmetics, just as you can find safe (and very effective) safe skin care products.

There are various cosmetics companies working hard to produce safe, and high quality cosmetics for the consumer. And the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics has a register that companies can sign to pledge themselves to using only safe ingredients in their cosmetics and skincare and anti-aging products.

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.

You might be looking for either skin care products or cosmetics or other beauty products, either way you can buy confident you aren’t risking your health.

Find out more about Safe Cosmetics? Visit Peter’s Website Natural Health-Organic Skin Care and find out more about Organic Skin Care Products.