FW: One Out of Five Cosmetics May be Contaminated With Cancer-Causing Impurity

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Sharyn

From: Doctor Mercola

Posted At: Monday, February 12, 2007

10:28 AM

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Conversation: One Out of Five

Cosmetics May be Contaminated With Cancer-Causing Impurity

Subject: One Out of Five Cosmetics

May be Contaminated With Cancer-Causing Impurity

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As

Valentine's Day just around the corner, loving thoughts are typically expressed

with gifts, often encompassing scented perfumes, colognes or toiletries.

Because loopholes in federal law allow cosmetic manufacturers to hide

potentially dangerous chemicals, however, the Environmental Working Group built

this timely Show Us Your Secrets

Web page to remind you just how unsafe

most of these products really are.

Here's

the catch that permits cosmetic companies to hide the toxic load of their

chemicals in plain sight: Even though federal laws require manufacturers to

list all chemical ingredients contained in a given product, those very same

regulations provide a loophole which

allows them to omit the unique mixture of components that create its fragrance.

Protected

under the umbrella of federal law, companies can hide any health-harming

combination of chemicals to their cosmetics that may harm, among others, your unborn

baby and you'd never know it,

even after carefully reviewing product labels.

Just a

reminder, a miniscule portion of cosmetics and toiletries have ever had all

of their ingredients tested for safety, and the toothless FDA doesn't

review the safety of fragrances either. And, one of those primary ingredients

hidden in fragrances -- phthalates

-- has been linked to fetal development problems, among others.

Environmental

Working Group