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Did you know that cosmetic products contain a myriad of synthetic chemicals that have demonstrated evidence of carcinogenicity in cancer studies on experimental animals?
Daily we smother otherselves in personal care and cosmetic products believing that they are somehow doing us good, but in reality we absorb up to 70 per cent of what we apply to our skin and most cosmetic ingredients have not been thoroughly tested for safety.
The European Union has banned around 1,000 chemicals compared to the U.S. FDA who have banned just 11 per cent of the 10,500 ingredients used in cosmetic products, in the last 30 years.
This is quite shocking given that contact dermatitis, asthma, skin, eye and nervous system disruption, birth defects and cancer are just a handful of the potential negative effects of many of the chemicals we routinely apply to our bodies.
For ladies who love their lippy, a US study conducted by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics on lipsticks bought in several regions in America found that 61 per cent of brand-name lipsticks tested contained detectable levels of the neurotoxin and reproductive toxicant, lead, which has been linked with learning and behavioural disorders, miscarriage in women, reduced fertility and hormonal changes.
Toxic Beauty reveals the darker side of the cosmetics we court and reveals just how ‘natural’ many of the organic labelled beauty products really are.
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