The big name cosmetics lines that you find in your stores and that you may even be using today have suspect or even dangerous ingredients in them. Where do you find safe cosmetics to use?

The FDA does not adequately regulate cosmetics, and in particular does not have any brief to satisfy itself that the ingredients used in cosmetics by the cosmetics manufacturers are safe for human use and human consumption.

Human consumption? Isn’t that a little silly, we don’t eat our cosmetics.

Well actually, in effect, we do. You see when you put a product like a moisturizer or blush or whatever product it may be onto our face a little of it soaks in and that little bit gets into your bloodstream exactly as if you had eaten it.

Some of those ingredients have gone into your system.

And there really are some quite nasty ingredients in cosmetics. And in skin care and anti aging products, personal and beauty and body care products and more. Lipsticks, mascaras, eye shadows, bronzers, blushes, foundations and other cosmetics have been found to have dangerous ingredients in them, some of which have been shown to cause cancer.

Here’s a quote from the FDA that might make you wonder:

The regulatory requirements governing the sale of cosmetics are not as stringent as those that apply to other FDA-regulated products Manufacturers may use any ingredient or raw material, except for color additives and a few prohibited substances, to market a product without a government review or approval.

Scary isnt it?

There is even an organization to fight the proliferation of dangerous ingredients in cosmetics, called the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics.

Heres just a couple of examples from the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics website.

1. A study has found that some (more than half of those tested) major big name brands of lipstick contain lead, including:

Christian Dior Addict Cover Girl Incredifull Lipcolor Maximum Red True Red and Positive Red LOreal Colour Riche were included. And the tainted lipsticks included some expensive brands too, so it doesn’t help to pay more.

2. And there are some brands of cosmetics, or some individual products, that contain 1,4-Dioxane, and if you look on their labels you won’t find it listed as an ingredient.

There’s plenty of examples, I won’t list them all here one by one, though I go into it in more detail on my website. But the big question is, can you find safe cosmetics?

Yes you can, just like you can find safe skin care products.

There are various cosmetics companies working hard to produce safe, and high quality cosmetics for the consumer. And the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics has a register that companies can sign to pledge themselves to using only safe ingredients in their cosmetics and skincare and anti-aging products.

These small niche companies are unable to compete with the big brands on marketing budget, so you won’t see them on TV, so you’ve probably never heard of the. But their products are top shelf, even thought they don’t actually sell through the stores so their products aren’t on the shelves at all.

Find out where to source high quality safe and highly effective cosmetics and skin care products on my website.

So whether you’re looking for skin care, or cosmetics, you can buy your products comfortable in the knowledge that you aren’t putting your health at risk.

Want to know more about Safe Cosmetics? Visit Peter’s Website Natural Health-Natural Skin Care and find out more about Safe Skin Care Products.