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"Also used to prevent irritation from other cosmetic ingredients. SORBITAN ISOSTEARATE • See Sorbitan Fatty Acid Esters. SORBITAN LAURATE • Span 20. Oily liquid, insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils. An emulsifier in cosmetic creams and lotions; a stabilizer of essential oils in water. No known toxicity. SORBITAN MONOOLEATE • Polysorbate 80. An emulsifying agent for special dietary products and pharmaceuticals, a defoamer in yeast production, and a chewing gum plasticizer. An unintentionally administered daily dose of 19." - Ruth Winter, Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives: A Consumer's Dictionary of cosmetic ingredients Vitamin E (Get the book.)

"These categories were taken from an analysis of actions taken (or rather, not taken) by the cosmetic ingredients Review, an industry-funded science panel that has evaluated the safety of just 11 percent of the more than 10,000 ingredients used in cosmetics and personal care products. By the EWG's estimate, 99 percent of all cosmetics and personal care products contain one or more ingredients that have not ever been assessed for safety." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "Following Japan's example, in 2006 the Malaysian Agriculture Development Authority (MADA) announced an initiative encouraging the development of cosmetic ingredients by rice farmers India is another hot market for organics. Amsar Private Limited, founded in 1963, was India's first manufacturer of standardized natural botanical colors and vegetable dyes, based in part on Ayurvedic medicinal traditions, which are used in a variety of shampoos, skin creams, lotions, and hair oils." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "In an effort at damage control, IFRA agreed that information on allergenic cosmetic ingredients should be made available, but only on request, and only to dermatologists, for diagnostic purposes (13). This "Fragrance On-Call List" action continues to deny the public its right to know. IFRA has failed to respond to repeated requests that "all fragrance products be labeled to the effect that, apart from the absence of known skin and respiratory allergens, they contain no known carcinogens, gene damaging, hormonal, or otherwise toxic ingredients" (14)." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "The GAO report also stressed that "many improvements in FDA's regulations could be made under its existing authority," including taking "regulatory action against violative manufacturers" and restricting the "use of hazardous cosmetic ingredients." And finally, the GAO urged the FDA to take action to require "appropriate precautionary labeling" and establish "tests to be used in evaluating cosmetic safety." The FDA's response to this report was to issue no substantive response." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"The basic purpose of the review is to gather information from the scientific literature and from company files on the safety of cosmetic ingredients and make that information publicly available. If a safety problem with a cosmetic product arises after it's been marketed, the FDA can take action to obtain the manufacturer's safety data on the product. Because there is not yet enough information on alternatives to animal testing to validate their use in ensuring human safety, the FDA, at this point, would only accept animal safety data." - Ruth Winter, M.S., A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients (Get the book.)

"The following are the top ten synthetic cosmetic ingredients to avoid. Aubrey Hampton calls them the "10 most wanted"; I recommend visiting the site at www.aubrey-organics.com for more information. TOXINS: THE 10 MOST WANTED LIST Methyl, propyl, butyl, and ethyl paraben: These villains help extend the shelf life of products and prevent microbial growth. But not only can they trigger allergic reactions and skin rashes, studies have shown that they are weakly estrogenic and can be absorbed by the body through the skin." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Still, as you can determine in this new edition of A Consumer's Dictionary of cosmetic ingredients, more and more "botanicals" are being added to cosmetics including antiaging products as well as other "treatment" and beautifying ingredients. The European market is particularly focused on finding legendary and newly discovered active botanicals.10 The FDA's Dr. Bailey says the agency is concerned about some botanicals being added to cosmetics since little is known about certain plant ingredients." - Ruth Winter, M.S., A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients (Get the book.) "Used as anti-irritants in cosmetics to prevent stinging of some cosmetic ingredients. AMINE OXIDES • See Amine Acid Surfactants. AMINES • A class of organic compounds derived from ammonia. They are basic in nature—synthetic derivatives of ammonium chloride, a salt that occurs naturally. Quaternary ammonium compounds (see) used in detergents are examples. AMIINO ACIDS • The body's building blocks, from which proteins are constructed. Of the 22 known amino acids, 8 cannot be manufactured in the body in sufficient quantities to sustain growth health." - Ruth Winter, M.S., A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients (Get the book.) "If, on the other hand, a company uses older cosmetic ingredients that have long ago been tested on animals, they can then say their "new" cosmetic versions have not been tested on animals. "As far as we know," says Neil Wilcox, D.V.M., director of the FDA's Office of Animal Care and Use, "what these companies do is use, for the most part, old reliable ingredients that have been proven safe [based on past animal data and a history of safe use] and then test the final product on people." - Ruth Winter, M.S., A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients (Get the book.)

"And in lieu of the standardized toxicological testing proposed by the Eagleton Bill, the industry proposed the self-monitoring Cosmetic Ingredient Review panel, which in 30 years has reviewed just a fraction of cosmetic ingredients and found the vast majority to be "safe as used." Thomas Eagleton knew that was not going to be good enough. "Self-regulation of any kind is a myth," the former senator said. "FDA knew we were right, but finally concluded that they were already overwhelmed in other regulations." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.) "Our Stolen Future products contain chemicals that can act like estrogen or disrupt hormones in the body, according to the 2005 Skin Deep report, an analysis of cosmetic ingredients conducted by the Environmental Working Group.15 More than half of cosmetic Sterile bald eagles, alligators with small penises, panthers with abnormal testicles." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.) "For minimal A version of this ad ran in USA Today, pointing out that only 11% of cosmetic ingredients have been reviewed by the industry safety panel, based on the 2005 Skin Deep report. cost, 1,4-dioxane can be vacuum stripped out of products at the end of the manufacturing process to non-detectable levels — or avoided entirely by using ingredients that do not need to be ethoxylated. But the companies are not required to do so." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"Another problem with this kind of product is that it adds another layer on the skin, and the buildup of cosmetic ingredients on the face can be pore-clogging. A well-chosen foundation color and blush can easily provide the color balance you are looking for without adding another layer of strange makeup colors to your skin. FACE POWDERS: Face powders come in two basic forms: pressed and loose. I evaluate them on the basis of whether they go on sheer, shiny, chalky, or heavy, and whether they are too pink, peach, ash, or rose." - Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron, Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me, 7th Edition (Get the book.)

"Although some cosmetic ingredients have been banned by specific regulations, this action is rarely taken (the FDA's action to limit vinyl chloride, independent of OSHA, is one of the few examples of such a step). In the case of methyl methacrylate, the FDA sought a court injunction for a single manufacturer and limited sales by seizing materials from several others. Some states followed up with local bans on methyl methacrylate, but despite these restrictions, the product has continued to be widely used even in states where it is supposedly prohibited." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"The attached statement from the CTFA said the European Union's new Cosmetics Directive (which banned 1,100 ingredients from cosmetics) "represents an unnecessary change in the philosophy of regulations of cosmetic ingredients in the EU. First of all, it may remove valuable ingredients from use in the EU. In addition, it ignores exposure information that would be used to assess whether there could be any harm from the use of such ingredients." The statement explained that in the US the cosmetics industry and FDA work together to ensure the safety of products. " - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"The seventh amendment mandates that chemicals determined to be carcinogens, mutagens, or reproductive toxins—known collectively as CMRs—be removed from cosmetics sold in Europe6 (It also mandates a phase-out in the testing of cosmetic ingredients on animals.) Amendment seems almost too soft a word to evoke the radical impact the Europeans are having on the multibillion-dollar global cosmetics industry. These were standards of an entirely different order than those to which Procter & Gamble and every other cosmetics producer had long been accustomed." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) "The Koreans shortly thereafter imposed more stringent oversight over cosmetic ingredients than the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which had originally given the agency, in the aftermath of the Korean War, its name and mandate. The Koreans based their reforms largely on the guidelines contained in the seventh amendment. Four months after my initial conversation with Dr. Long, I called him again. The company had noticed the changing international climate around cosmetic regulation. " - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"Nearly all commercial sliced breads will be loaded with cosmetic ingredients. If you care about taste, look for commercial breads with the fewest ingredients and the lowest number of ¦¦¦MMBHHH|HHHjHMB| additives. If your first consideration is I f you care about taste, look for nutrition, choose breads labeled 100 I commercial breads with the fewest percent whole wheat. Anything else ingredients and the lowest number of will be white bread reconstituted to a additives. ||||||^^ lesser or greater extent. You pick small distinctions that make little difference." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"Unfortunately, the vast majority of consumers don't know how to read a cosmetic's ingredient list because it is phenomenally technical and vast (there are thousands and thousands of cosmetic ingredients). That complexity means that most of us can only rely on the unregulated claims and assertions the marketing copy boasts about. Yet taking the time to decipher the ingredient lists is the only way to make a rational decision when it comes time to purchase skin-care products. But then again, that's my job security!" - Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron, Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me, 7th Edition (Get the book.) "Weaknesses: Consistent and pervasive use of volatile fragrant oils that are irritating, allergenic, and/or photosensitizing for skin; no effective AHA or BHA products; no skin-lightening or effective anti-acne products; only one sun-care product that does not contain problematic ingredients; average foundations and eye pencils; bad concealer and mascara; this direct sales line perpetuates false information about several cosmetic ingredients; overzealous sales representatives; returning a product is not easy or convenient." - Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron, Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me, 7th Edition (Get the book.) "After all, one good sales pitch about an "exclusive formula" or a revolutionary new ingredient, and your pocketbook could easily be lighter—by $100 to $500—for a 1-ounce jar of standard cosmetic ingredients, or for ingredients that can't possibly live up to the claims made for them. I know that I can't stop the cosmetics industry from force-feeding consumers an endless stream of expensive products and misleading or erroneous claims and information, but I also know there are enough women who are interested in seeing the other side of the picture to motivate me to continue to do what I do." - Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron, Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me, 7th Edition (Get the book.)

"J ^ The tragedy is that the problem could have been averted with a few cents' worth of vacuum stripping, and not enough companies took the measures to eliminate these questionable safe cosmetic ingredients. The laboratory that was used is widely regarded as one of the best." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Forget about the claims and the advertising; take a look at the ingredients that are actually in the products, and then get yourself a book like Ruth Winters' A Consumer's Dictionary of cosmetic ingredients, and learn what these ingredients actually do. What you'll find is that many of these high-priced products, even ones that cost $ 100 an ounce or more, are actually made with cheap, petroleum-based ingredients that are very similar to those found in $5 products. These ingredients are not ones that enhance your health." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"What it does do, however, is clarify what ingredients are not permitted in cosmetics—namely, those that may contribute to cancer, may have mutagenic effects, or may damage the reproductive system. Procter & Gamble hired a staff of compliance officers and lawyers responsible for ensuring its ingredients passed the Europeans' new toxicity screen. "We comply with the laws wherever we operate," Pollet said. Indeed, his company has rarely been brought to court for violating either EU or U.S. laws pertaining to the safety of its products." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"Mineral oil is one of the most benign of all cosmetic ingredients, rivaling even water in terms of lack of irritation potential. Regardless of the myths, for the hait it is a good conditioning agent, providing slip and conditioning effects on all degrees of dry hair. When I use the term thickener, I'm referring to those ingredients that add texture, thickness, viscosity, spreadability, and stability to a product. Thickeners (when used as emulsifiers) are vital for their ability to help keep other ingredients mixed together." - Paula Begoun, Don't Go Shopping for Hair-Care Products Without Me (Get the book.) "What the FDA cares about is the content of a cosmetic, meaning that it should contain only cosmetic ingredients, and ruling that when a product does contain over-the-counter drug ingredients it must meet the (much more stringent) regulatory demands fot that ingredient. It is within the purview of the FTC to be concerned about deceptive or erroneous advertising claims. "When the substantiation claim is express (e.g." - Paula Begoun, Don't Go Shopping for Hair-Care Products Without Me (Get the book.)

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