Is your foundation doing more than just covering up blemishes? Is it actually causing more blemishes on the inside? Beauty products can cause cancer, birth defects and other health problems according to the Skin Deep website, produced by the Environmental Working Group with the mission to “use the power of information to protect human health and the environment.”
Beauty products are not regulated by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA). Companies are able to use any ingredient they wish without testing for safety despite the fact that our skin is the largest organ of our bodies and absorbs toxins into our blood systems with the same efficiency as our stomach does when it absorbs food.
Launched in 2004, Skin Deep's database possesses information and safety assessments for 41,418 products with 8,305 different ingredients from 1,346 companies. Visitors can learn things like:
· what products alter hormone production in teenagers
· hazardous baby bubble baths
· cancer promoting deodorants
· the safest saline solutions
Interested visitors can become a supporting member of The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. Members of the coalition include public health, educational, religious, and labor workers and consumer groups who are working to require the health and beauty industry to stop using dangerous chemicals in their products.
Get your signature on that pact and make beauty a safer place for our children!
