100 Toxic Cosmetics Ingredients you don't want in your Beauty Products!
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100 toxic cosmetic ingredients you don’t want in your beauty products
Here is the most comprehensive list of harmful chemicals currently used in skincare, hair care, make-up, and fragrances. Use list anytime you buy a beauty product. Don’t keep it secret: photocopy it and give it to family and friends. Minimize your exposure to these chemicals. Ideally, eliminate them from your beauty routine. They are the worst enemies of your skin and hair.
1. Acrylic Acid: Respiratory toxin for humans; causes asthma, severe skin burns, and allergic reaction in the skin or lungs; causes renal and kidney damage in animals; causes blood tumours’ and skin tumours’ in animals.
2. Aluminum (Pure Aluminum Powder): Strong human neurotoxicant; causes irritation of eyes, skin, or lungs; endocrine disruptor; linked to Alzheimer’s disease and breast cancer; causes birth disorder in animals.
3. Aluminium Chloride: Nose and lung irritant; causes liver and bladder abnormalities in animals; causes brain disorders in animals; human endocrine disruptor linked to breast cancer and Alzheimer’s disease; aluminum compounds are neurotoxic to humans.
4. Aluminium Hydrochloride: Endocrine disruptor linked to breast cancer and Alzheimer’s disease; aluminum compounds are neurotoxic to humans.
5. Aluminium Oxide: Strong nose and lung irritant; causes skin cancer in animals; endocrine disruptor linked to breast cancer and Alzheimer’s disease; aluminum compounds are neurotoxic to humans.
6. Ammonium Laureth Sulfate: Causes skin irritation; water contaminant; may be contaminated with carcinogen 1, 4-Diozane.
7. Ammonium Persulfate: Strong eye, respiratory system, and skin irritant; can trigger asthma; restricted in cosmetics.
8. Amyl Acetate: Neurotoxin; eye and lung irritant; lung allergen.
9. Benzalkonium Chloride: Immune system, lung, and skin toxicant; can trigger asthma; restricted in Canada and Japan.
10. Benzyl Alcohol: Strong neurotoxicant; can cause allergic reaction in lungs; causes itching, burning, scaling, hives, and blistering of skin; causes liver damage, coma, and death in animals.
11. Boric Acid: Strong reproductive toxin; potent endocrine disruptor; unsafe for use on infants and injured or damaged skin; causes death and birth defects in animals; banned in Canada and Japan.
12. Bronopol (2-bromo-2-nitropropane-1, 3-diol): One of the strongest lung and skin toxicants; endocrine disruptor; forms carcinogenic nitrosamine; causes allergic contact dermatitis; environmental contaminant; poisonous to wildlife.
13. Butylated Hydroxyanisole (BHA):
14. Butylated Hydroxytoluence (BHT):
15: Butylene Glycol:
16: Butylparaben:
17: Calcium Fluoride:
18: Ceteareth (with any numeral following it):
19: Cetrimonium Chloride:
20: Cetyl Alcohol:
21: Chloroacetamide:
22: Coal tar:
23: Cocamide DEA (Ethanolamide of Coconut Acid):
24: D & C Red 30 Lake:
25: D & C Viloet 2:
26: Dibutyl Phthalate:
27: Diethanolamine (DEA):
28: Dimeticone (Dimethicone):
29: Direct Black 38:
30: DMDM Hydantoin:
31: EDTA (Disodium EDTA):
32: Ethylparaben:
33: Eugenol:
34: Ext.D & C Violet 2:
35: FD & C Blue 1:
36: FD & C Green 3:
37:FD & C Yellow 5 (E104, Tartrazine):
38: FD & C Yellow 5 Aluminum Lake:
39: FD & C Yellow 6:
40: Fig (Ficus Carica) :
41: Formaldehyde:
42: Formaldehyde Resin:
43: Formaldehyde Solution (Formalin)
44: Glyceryl Stearate :
45 : Hydroquinone :
46 : Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate :
47: Imidazolidinyl Urea (Uric Acid)
48: Isobutylparaben:
49: Isoparaffin:
50: Isopropyl Alcohool (SD-40):
51: Lactic Acid:
52: Lanolin:
53: Laureth-7 (Polyethylene Glycol Ether of Lauryl Alcohol):
54: Lead Acetate:
55: Lecithin aerosol:
56: Manganese Sulfate:
57: Methamine:
58: Methyl Methacrylate:
59: Methylparaben:
60: Mineral oil (Liquid Petrolatum)
61: Monoethanolamine(MEA):
62: Nonoxynol (Ethoxylated alkyl phenol)
63: Octoxynol (10,11,13. 40):
64: Oxybenzone (Benzophenone-4)
65: Padimate O (Benzophenone-4):
66: Para Amino Benzonic Acid (PABA):
67: Paraffin (Paraffinum Liquidum, Paraffin Petrolatum):
68 : PEG-100 Sterate :
69 : Petrolatum(Soft Paraffin, White Petrolatum, Petrolatum Jelly) :
70: Phenol:
71: Phenoxyethanol:
72: Picric Acid:
73: Placental Extract:
74: Polyethylene Glycol (PEG):
75: Polyethylene Terephthalate:
76: Polysorbate 80:
77: Potassium Persulfate:
78: P-phenylenediamine:
79- Propyl Acetate:
80- Propylene Glycol (PG):
81- Propylparaben:
82- Quaternium-7, 15, 31, 60:
83: Resorcinol (m-Hydroquinone, Euresol, 1, 3-Benzenediol)
84: Saccharin:
85: Silica:
86: Sodium Laureth Sulfate:
87: Sodium Methylparaben:
88: Sodium Metabisulfite:
89: Sodium Methylparaben:
90: Sodium Monofluorophosphate:
91: Talc:
92: Teflon:
93: Tetrasodium EDTA:
94: Thimerosal (Thiomersal, Merthiolate):
95: Thioglycolic Acid:
96: Toluene:
97: Triclosan:
98: Triethanolamine (TEA):
99: Triphenyl Phosphate:
100: Xanthene (AKA106, CI 45100)
Sources: Cosmetic Ingredient Review (CIR); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); European Union: Classification & Labelling: Health Canada: List of Prohibited and restricted Cosmetic Ingredients; EPA Water quality standards: EPA Hazardous Air Polluants; National Library of Medicine; CHE Toxicant and Disease Database;Scorecard.org Toxicity Information; U.S Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics; International Agency for Research on cancer (IARC)
We will keep adding the definition of each ingredients, but in the mean time we invite you to consult the web site www.cosmeticdatabase.com is the most complete, interactive guide to personal care product safety. You can search by cosmetic brand, product or ingredients.Here is a few web site that are helpful as well:
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