How safe are your personal health products?
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Do you know how safe the cosmetics, hair products, baby products, and skin lotions are that you use? A non profit group called the Environmental Working Group reviews over 25,000 health care products at the site called Skin Deep (Web site http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/)
One thing I really like about the site is that they rate each product as low hazard (0-2), moderate hazard (3-6), or high hazard (7-10). It amazed me to learn that there can be quite a difference between two products that appear similar. For example:
Colgate Cavity Protection Fluoride Toothpaste is safe (low hazard), while Colgate Luminous Toothpaste Crystal Clean Mint is moderate risk with ingredients that are linked to cancer.
As you look through the database you will quickly conclude that a consumer can significantly improve the safety of products with a little research. I encourage you to start out first researching products that you use daily such as shampoos, toothpaste, and cosmetics. In time you can improve the safety of the portfolio of products that you use.
Skin deep also does a great job of encouraging all of us to become safe cosmetics advocates. Unfortunately the United States does not regulate the safety of products to the level that Europe and Japan does.
Here is a quick video that provides a quick tuturial for using the Skin Deep web site.
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