TOXIC CHEMICALS IN COSMETICS

Toxic chemicals could be found in our foods, our personal care products, the air we breathe, in the work place and the water we drink every time are destroying the health of billions of people. We must ask ourselves; why is the rate of progressive and metabolic disease flying out of control. Everyday everyone reaches for shower gel, hand wash, shampoos and conditioner, deodorant and moisturizer. And of course most of women use eye shadow, mascara, and lipstick, and then maybe bit on a nail polish and perfume. We look good, we smell good, and we have just exposed ourselves to over hundreds of different chemicals. Most people do not know about the toxicity of whatever you are putting on your skin.

When we get a prescription or even an over-the-counter drug on the market, a manufacturer must first prove the drug is safety and effectiveness to the food and drug management. The liability of proof rests on industry. That is not the case for cosmetics, except for a handful of banned chemicals, manufacturers can add almost any ingredients to those revitalizing eye creams, vitamin-stuffed conditioners, and kiss-resistant lipsticks, and if questions about the safety of products arise, the liability is on the government to prove the product is unsafe.

The law governing cosmetics says that they may not contain harmful substances they say you do not know? But how the tests for the harmful or unsafe substances will be conducted is left up to the companies themselves. Companies test cosmetics for their propensity to cause allergic reactions and irritate skin people started to demonstrate against using animals for all kind of these tests have led many companies to do them in test tubes and on human subjects or other tests.

As for the possible long-term effects of inconvenience to cosmetic ingredients and not all the chemicals can pass through the skin, however many ingredients in cosmetic as we all know creams are designed to sit on the surface of the skin, helping to keep the skin moist and soft by holding in water and also many ingredients in personal care products, such as fatty acids, are identical to chemicals that occur naturally in the human body. Most ingredients we have come across in our everyday life in cosmetics are fairly no threatening compounds. But there is a doubtful class of chemicals in cosmetics that may be absorbed through the skin.

These are the colour flavors, derived from petroleum, known as coal tars. Coal tar colors they are also found in foods, like the mini chocolates M&Ms are the single group of ingredients in cosmetics required to be tested for safety reasons. This day’s most people dye their hair without realizing what will happen afterwards, it is found out by Scientists that the cosmetic products are tarnished hair dyes with suspected cancer causing; ingredients are not required to carry warning labels.

I am going explain it in details about dyeing hair below; products often list fragrances, which can contain up to at least a few hundred different compounds, many hazardous or otherwise toxic, but the label only says they contain a fragrance. And while cosmetic makers must put the list of ingredients are used in a single products and they are not required to conduct pre market safety tests.

 

 
By: Ammara Siddique

Tags: article, Cosmetics, TOXIC CHEMICALS

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