When you read the ingredients on the back of a beauty product, you’re likely to come across one simple word: Fragrance. Sounds harmless enough. But what you should be asking yourself is: What’s in a “fragrance?” Because the answer, more often than not, inclues phthalates. Phthalates are chemicals that disrupt hormones and are known to [...]
Product Safety 101
20 October, 2010 By 1 Comment
As you already probably know, many ingredients used in beauty products are questionable at best and downright dangerous at worst. Since 1938 the FDA has only banned 10 of 12,000 synthetic ingredients used to make personal care items. (In sharp contrast, the Cosmetics Directive in the EU has banned 1,100 compounds suspected of causing cancer, [...]