Here's something to think about ladies when purchasing personal care products in the future:
1. Major loopholes in US federal law allow the $35 billion cosmetics industry to put virtually unlimited amounts of chemicals into personal care products with no required testing, no monitoring of health effects, and inadequate labeling requirements.
2. One third of personal care products contain at least one chemical linked to cancer, according to the Skin Deep report by the Environmental Working Group, a partner of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics.
3. 2 billion disposable razors end up in U.S. landfills each year.
4. Animal welfare groups say 38,000 animals die needlessly in the EU every year in tests for new products.
5. Last year the UK sun-care market generated £182m. In particular, government advice for us all to cover up has boosted the sales of higher protection factor creams. SPF 15 and SPF 25 are now the UK’s most popular choices. Unfortunately the higher the SPF, the more chemicals the cream will contain.
6. The National Environmental Research Institute of Denmark found that 77 per cent of rinse-off cosmetics contain parabens (the figure rises to 99 per cent for leave-on cosmetics such as sunscreens).
7. The average T-shirt has an SPF of seven, and 85 per cent of fabrics tested in an Australian study had and SPF of 20 or more.
8. The natural personal care market had “…an estimated value of $5 billion in 2004 and has grown by a total of 50 per cent since 2000." Skincare is the leading segment of the market with a value of $3 billion, while hair care has had the strongest growth over the five-year period.
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Source of photos and facts: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/01/how_to_green_womens_personal_car...
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Some of those facts are disturbing, like the once about products have a chemical linked to cancer!
1pink i haven't joined this group yet. gasp!
great post
2lol i always say "who woulda thunk" too haha
Very interesting post pink.
3thanks trish, and do join, trish. do.
4Wow...this just supports my saying that "everything causes cancer"....because unfortunately it does.
5Very interesting info, thanks!
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6Groove is in the heaaaaaaart
Very interesting info, thanks!
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7Groove is in the heaaaaaaart
It's so sad. I was reading an article about "detoxing" your environment and encountered some of the facts about our cosmetics and skin care products. It's difficult to find products that are actually organic and they tend to cost a bit more but I found that my skin did better with less chemicals.
8that spf one is a hard decision, hmmm do I die of skin cancer, or some other cancer caused by my sunscreen???It definitely is hard to find natural makeup.thanks for the info though!
9this just makes me want to be a hermit and not do anything. its so discouraging to me. i feel like i cant win and that companies really dont care at all about their consumers, just how much money they can make. well i guess that is all they care about actually.
10that's awful..
these companies really don't care about the consumers that's true..they only
care how to sell ..but what those chemicals ..who will do something to stop them?
11Wow, never thought about the razors.
Style Before Comfort!
12Just want to say the recycline.com sells disposable razors made from recycled yogurt cups. They also come with a Pre-paid envolope to send them back to the company to be recycled again. Oh and their tooth brushes are great!
13oh historygal, thanks for that site. i will def check it out.
14This is great to know. You are right..who would of thunk it!?
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