Four years ago, my daughter Rachel started school to become an esthetician.  She brought home info on the new studies showing just how toxic parabans were and their link to breast cancer.  I immediately went through my beauty products and shampoos and conditioners.  Almost all of them had parabans and they were all from the health food store!  I went to work researching toxicity in cosmetics, ending up switching products and in time developed my own skin cleanser.  During that next year almost every product line in the health food store reformulated their products to remove this cheap and toxic preservative. 

One of the tools I used for my research was the Environmental Working Groups’ website, Skin Deep.  It has the white papers (toxicity reports) on almost every product I was using. 

Skin Deep is a safety guide to cosmetics and personal care products brought to you by researchers at the Environmental Working Group.

Skin Deep pairs ingredients in more than 42,000 products against 50 definitive toxicity and regulatory databases, making it the largest integrated data resource of its kind. Why did a small nonprofit take on such a big project? Because the FDA doesn’t require companies to test their own products for safety.

Get started here to learn what’s in your personal care products:

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