Exposing Toxins in Our Makeup

Why You Need To Look At Makeup Ingredients​​When we go shopping for our makeup and beauty products, the last thing on our mind is that we could be buying something dangerous for our health and well-being. The reality is, we ARE and on a regular basis and we don’t even know it.
 
Current regulations in North America are so poorly enforced that most cosmetic and makeup companies have no real motivation to drastically change their use of toxic and dangerous chemicals in their products. Generally speaking, these toxic and industrial chemicals include hormone disruptors, pesticides, carcinogens, reproductive toxins, and allergens. Not only are these ingredients dangerous for your skin and health, but they are also damaging for the environment. For now, though, here are the basic chemicals you want to avoid in cosmetics. A 2010 survey done (1) on products available in Canada revealed that 80% of surveyed products contained at least one of the many toxic chemicals we will talk about below.

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