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The Case Against Chemicals in Cosmetics

The Case Against Chemicals in Cosmetics. What’s in your deodorant?. Introduction. Women are exposed to thousands of cosmetics and personal care products (PCPs) over the course of a life time. This includes deodorant shampoo, sunscreen hairspray, perfume, makeup

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The Case Against Chemicals in Cosmetics

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  1. The Case Against Chemicals in Cosmetics What’s in your deodorant?

  2. Introduction • Women are exposed to thousands of cosmetics and personal care products (PCPs) over the course of a life time. • This includes deodorant shampoo, sunscreen hairspray, perfume, makeup • Increasing amounts of industrial grade chemicals make those products last longer, smell nicer, and perform better • Many of these chemicals are toxic

  3. What’s wrong with chemicals? • Only 11 percent of the 10,500 PCP ingredients that the FDA has documented have been assessed for safety by the cosmetic industry's review panel (EWG 2006) • Many of these chemicals have already been classified as toxic, endocrine disrupting, or carcinogenic by the FDA • They are limited in food, yet the cosmetic industry is allowed to use unknown amounts

  4. Well, I’m not dead…yet • There have been no studies on outcome of repeated, long term, low level exposures to chemicals in cosmetics, thus the hazard to human health is unknown (Harvey and Everett 2006) • When some are eaten they are metabolized by the liver, and pass out of the body • When applied cosmetically, they are absorbed into fat which stays in the body

  5. But I’m not a fish… • This is especially important to women since they have a higher fat content than men • Darbre (2006) suggests that one direct route may be the exposure via the long-term, regular application to the underarm and breast area of a variety of cosmetic ingredients • Babies exposed to contaminated breast milk may suffer developmental defects

  6. Emergence of new research suggesting the link between endocrine-disrupting components and cancer, deserves investigation into individual and combined chemicals. The long-term use of product formulations at lower levels over an entire lifetime warrants retrospective investigation.

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