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What's In Your Personal Care Products? |
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Written by Paula Elder
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Friday, 18 April 2008 00:00 |
 Have you ever counted how many personal care products you use in a typical day? For most people it's somewhere around ten different products. These include shampoo, toothpaste, soap, deodorant, shaving cream, hair conditioner, lip balm, sunscreen, and body lotion to name just a portion of them. Added up these products contain an average of 126 unique chemical ingredients. And what about children's personal care products? On any given day you might rub, spray or pour on your children some combination of sun screen, diaper cream, shampoo, lotion, and maybe even insect repellent onto their skin. Most people use these products daily without a second thought to the long list of ingredients listed on the back of the package. They just assume that the government surely must be policing the safety of these ingredients. But, if you assumed this you would be wrong. The government does not require health studies, or pre-market testing for personal care products before they can be sold. Here is a direct quote from the FDA website concerning this statement: “Neither cosmetic products nor cosmetic ingredients, other than color additives, need to be reviewed or approved by FDA before they are sold to the public. FDA cannot require companies to do safety testing of their cosmetics before marketing.”
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Last Updated on Monday, 22 December 2008 01:13 |
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