The Green Beauty Guide: Your Essential Resource to Organic and Natural Skin Care, Hair Care, Makeup, and Fragrances

THE GOOD AND BAD IN COSMETICS How strong is the solution? If the concentration of a certain ingredient is high, then it has a be ...

chapter 2 beauty and the toxic beast ...

What is in your morning bathroom routine? Most likely, you take a shower with a zesty, invigorating shower gel; you shampoo and ...

laboratory. No one bothers to tell us whether a sufficient number of participants was involved. (Most studies are done in vitro, ...

complaints to invoke an investigation. Then it may take another decade to convince legislators that they should ban the substanc ...

(Proposition 65) list of chemicals known or suspected by the state to cause cancer or birth defects. U.S. federal regulators, pa ...

laboratory animals. We need to remember the synergistic effects of chemicals; toxins add up and even multiply to create greater ...

It may be good to remember, though, that the recent laboratory studies show 1,4-Dioxane is nonexistent in the variety of product ...

In all living creatures, phthalates tip hormonal scales, making males and females more feminine. Solid research links phthalates ...

banned just two types of phthalates, but cosmetic companies continue using the rest of them. There’s evidence that those other t ...

scented stick of antiperspirant may cause you more problems than you think. In fact, you may lose the ability to think at all. A ...

by multiple factors, and aluminum is just one of them. Still, this factor is easily avoided. All it takes is a small change in c ...

cosmetics. Female animals that ate large amounts of ethylene glycol had babies with birth defects, while male animals had reduce ...

creaking door menders. Under such conditions, even the most stable formulation can grow some fussy colonies. Microorganisms can ...

skin, parabens are rapidly absorbed and metabolized, but they also accumulate in the human body. In 2002, parabens, due to their ...

created, you will need stabilizers and preservatives to hold it together.” To keep their lotions, shower gels, and baby products ...

Still, you have a slightly less chance of developing an irritation when you use these products than those with a full-strength f ...

because a certain number of people drown while swimming or sailing each year. There are many wonderful synthetic ingredients (su ...

boost self-confidence. For most people, the process of smelling gives little information about the ingredients of a particular s ...

A typical perfume contains a mixture of fragrance chemicals (often between 50 and 100) produced from coal tar and petroleum dist ...