January 7, 2008

Did You Know?

Surveys show that an average consumer uses as many as 25 different cosmetic and personal care products containing more than 200 different chemicals!

One of every 100 products on the market contains ingredients certified by government authorities as known or probable human carcinogens, including shampoos, lotions, make-up foundations and lip balms!

Major loopholes in federal law allow the $60 billion cosmetics industry to put unlimited amounts of chemicals into personal care products with no required testing and no monitoring of health effects!

According to the FDA (the agency that regulates the cosmetics industry) "....a cosmetic manufacturer may use almost any raw material as a cosmetic ingredient and market the product without an approval from FDA!"

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