Now here's a little wakeup call for all us Ghetto Bitches. Try running the cosmetic products you use through this excellent online database created by the Environmental Working Group.
As we know but often forget, the cosmetic industry and cosmetic ingredients are all but unregulated in North America; most of the products we use (even those of us who try to be all-organic, as of course us byatches do) often contain things like acrylamide, (found in foundations and lotions, it is strongly linked to mammary tumours) and dibutyl phthalate, an industrial chemical known to damage the liver, kidney and reproductive systems, disrupt hormonal processes and increase breast cancer risk. Not to mention, feminise boys.
My favourite nail polish brand, OPI, for example, is labelled Higher Risk. Its ingredients scored as the following: cancer hazard, reproductive/developmental toxicity, unsafe for use in cosmetics, illegal ingredients (EU only--unregulated in the good ol' US of A), potential for harmful impurities, ingredient(s) not disclosed on label, estrogenic chemicals and other endocrine disruptors, irritants - eye, skin, or lungs, persistent/bioaccumulative, immune system toxicants (allergies, sensitization), classified as toxic, no safety information in 37 regulatory/toxicity data sources.
Of it's 61 ingredients, 28 "raise health concerns" and 5 carry "violations, restrictions or warnings."
Nice.
I think I'm going to spend a wee bit of time on this site getting informed. Then sending my "beauty" products out for incineration.
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How come I'm suddenly reminded of a scene from the film "Brazil" when the friend of the protagonist's mother appears with her melty cosmetic surgery face and says something like, "Me compleecations have compleecations."
((shudder))
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