Your medicine cabinet is one of the most dangerous areas of your home, and not for the reasons you might think. Lurking behind your bathroom mirror, where all the favorite beauty products are housed, provides a virtual toxic nightmare. The growing list of synthetic ingredients manufacturers add to their products are turning the most innocent and moisturizing shampoo into a cocktail of toxins that can cause cancer or reproductive damage over the years of sustained use. Modern cosmetics contain a variety of hazardous ingredients, which would be more comfortable in a test tube in our bodies.
Like Most people probably assume that the ingredients found in beauty products have been tested for safety before being always on the shelves of your garage. After all, the government has regulations in force for the water we drink, the food we eat and the air we breathe. One might suppose that the FDA could also be the control of the cosmetics industry to ensure the health and safety of consumers. Unfortunately, the FDA has little power when it comes to regulating the ingredients found in your beauty products.
In fact, the only people in order to ensure the safety of products for personal care are the same people who govern the industry: The Cosmetic Trade Association (CTFA). Scientists paid by members of the CTFA Cosmetic Ingredient Review Panel (CIR), and are responsible for regulating the safety of their products.In its industry for 2004, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) published the results of a study they conducted on the safety of beauty care products. Comparing approximately 10,000 ingredients found in 7500 different products against lists of suspected health hazards and chemicals, their research revealed that the CIR was falling tragically short to ensure consumer products tested by the EWG safety.
Of 7500, only a mere 28 were evaluated for safety by CIR. EWG found that 1 out of 120 products tested contained ingredients certified by the government as known or probable carcinogens and that nearly 1 / 3 of all the products contained ingredients classified as possible carcinogens. Amazingly, 54 products even violated the recommendations for safe use that the CIR has implemented, but these products are still available for the sale of products today.Of tested, the worst were the products that contain ingredients that cause cancer, coal tar , alpha hydroxy acids and beta hydroxy acids and those containing the hormone-disrupting ingredient, phthalate.
Coal Tar 71 hair dyes evaluated were found to contain ingredients derived from coal tar (called FD & C or D & C on ingredients labels) . Several studies have linked the use of hair dye at length with bladder cancer, NHL and more myeloma.A research study conducted in 2001 by the USC School of Medicine found that women with permanent hair dyes at least once month more than doubled their risk of cancer of the bladder. The study estimated that "19% of bladder cancer in women in Los Angeles, California, can be attributed to use of permanent hair dyes.
" A link between hair dye and non-Hodgkin lymphoma was established in 1992 a study conducted by the National Cancer Institute, found that 20% of all cases of non-Hodgkin lymphoma may be linked to use. While hair dyes, the FDA has not acted to prevent the use of coal tar in cosmetics, are advising consumers that the use of hair dye reduction will be possible "to reduce the risk of cancer." Alpha Hydroxy Acids (AHAs) and Beta Hydroxy Acids (BHA) AHA and BHA are commonly used in products advertised to remove wrinkles, blemishes, spots and acne scars.
Consumer complaints of burning, swelling and pain associated with AHA and BHA flooding into the FDA, which has begun to conduct their own research about 15 years ago. Their findings linked to the use of AHA and BHA with a doubling of UV-induced skin damage and a potential increased risk of skin cancer.According the Environmental Protection Agency, skin cancer has reached "epidemic proportions" with 1 million new cases occur each year and 1 person dies every hour from the disease. It is estimated that at the current rate, 1 in 5 people will develop skin cancer on their results to the FDA lifetime.
The study were presented at the CIR, but the panel endorsed the continued use of AHA and BHA, "despite serious security problems presented by a group of consumers and a great writer, "according to a spokesperson.Even FDA, even if 1 in 17 products