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Cosmetic Safety Database - A Good Reference

Tck13

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Here is a website I found which tells this:
Skin Deep is a safety guide to cosmetics and personal care products brought to you by researchers at the Environmental Working Group. Skin Deep pairs ingredients in nearly 25,000 products against 50 definitive toxicity and regulatory databases, making it the largest integrated data resource of its kind. Why did a small nonprofit take on such a big project? Because the FDA doesn't require companies to test their own products for safety.
Kinda useful. Helps with hair, skin, nail, fragrance, etc. products. Tells safety and toxicity of products and their ingredients.
 

Wvillager

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I feel like a shill even posting on this topic, but I work in the industry and I find the site to be a joke. Looking at the methodology for the rankings, many commonly safe ingredients read like poison.

Just look at the two highest-risk commonly-known sunscreens: Avon Multiboost Spf 15 and Neutrogena Healthy Skin 15. The ingredient with the highest risk factor: Fragrance.
Fragrance?!?!!

Yes, fragrance's concerns are: Neurotoxicity, Allergies/immunotoxicity, Miscellaneous. Risk factor 8/10.

I hope my cologne, which i spray on in much higher concentration, doesn't contain any of this!!
 

rxcats

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Exceedingly detailed information that is essentially useless. So much of what they consider as toxic is concentration dependent. I'm glad it isn't a referrance that we use at the Poison Control Center, I'd have to refer everyone that applied face cream to the emergency room!
 

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