Chemicals Linked to Birth Defects Can Stay in Cosmetics

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Chemicals Linked to Birth Defects Can Stay in

Cosmetics

 

 

 

http://www.ewg.org/

 

Chemicals Linked to Birth Defects Can Stay in Cosmetics, Says Cosmetic Industry

Safety Panel

Most people are surprised to learn that the government neither conducts nor

requires safety testing of chemicals that go into health and beauty products. A

panel funded and advised by the cosmetic industry determined that cosmetic

companies can continue to add reproductive toxins known as phthalates to

cosmetics marketed to women of childbearing age.

 

Phthalates (pronounced THAL-LATES) are linked in animal studies to birth defects

of the male reproductive system, including undescended testicles, absent

testicles, and a physical defect of the penis known as hypospadias. They are

used in a wide range of beauty products including shampoo, hair spray, nail

polish, deodorant, and lotion.

 

• EWG Cosmetics Home

 

• Washington Post: Beauty Coverup?

• Industry Review Panel: What's wrong with the process?

• Do the deodorant, hair gel, and other products you use contain phthalates?

• EWG’s list of phthalate-free products

 

 

 

 

 

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