With all the talk of natural skin care these days, it is good to know what ingredients you should avoid in your personal care products.
While this list is not exhaustive, the ingredients listed here should be avoided whenever possible.
By learning these ingredients and purchasing products without these, you will be well on your way to beautiful AND healthy skin.
1) HYDROQUINONE SKIN LIGHTNER.
As with most beauty products, we are looking for something to enhance, well, our beauty.
How does "disfiguring and irreversible" black and blue lesions sound? Not so beautiful, huh? This is a possible effect of using Hydroquinone.
In worst-case scenarios, these lesions have been known to become intensively black bumps the size of caviar all over...
permanently.
That's forever, girls.
2) DMDM HYDANTOIN.
Restricted from cosmetics in Japan, this little guy also releases formaldehyde and causes skin irritations, migraines, asthma and allergies.
According the EWG, this is a high risk substance rating as high as a 9 out of a possible 10.
3) IMIDAZOLIDINYL UREA.
Don't worry about the pronunciation of this word as much as the spelling.
Read it.
Memorize it.
Know this one when you read labels.
This ingredient is known to cause skin irritations, migraines, allergies and asthma.
Our real concern at MOI is the view expressed in PETA's Caring Consumer.
This ingredient is "Excreted from urine and other bodily fluids.
In deodorants, ammoniated dentifrices, mouthwashes, hair colorings, hand creams, lotions, shampoos, etc.
Used to "brown" baked goods, such as pretzels 4) DIETHANOLAMINE (DEA), MOMOETHANOLAMINE (MEA), and TRIETHANOLAMINE (MEA).
This ingredient is frequently listed as Cocamide DEA on labels and is found in shampoos, bubble baths, exfoliants and scrubs, hair colors and bleaches, body washes and cleansers.
There is strong evidence these are human skin toxicants and human immune system toxicants and moderate evidence that DEA and MEA cause cancer.
5) COAL TAR.
A perfect 10 according the EWG.
This little gem has all the major concerns.
Cancer, organ system toxicity, developmental and reproductive toxicity and contamination concerns.
Coal tar is used in dandruff shampoos, scalp treatments, eczema/damaged skin treatment, bath oils, salts and soaks, redness/rosacea treatments and anti-itch creams.
Banned in Canada and by the European Union for use in cosmetics, coal tar is listed as a known human carcinogen by several agencies.
While this list is not exhaustive, the ingredients listed here should be avoided whenever possible.
By learning these ingredients and purchasing products without these, you will be well on your way to beautiful AND healthy skin.
1) HYDROQUINONE SKIN LIGHTNER.
As with most beauty products, we are looking for something to enhance, well, our beauty.
How does "disfiguring and irreversible" black and blue lesions sound? Not so beautiful, huh? This is a possible effect of using Hydroquinone.
In worst-case scenarios, these lesions have been known to become intensively black bumps the size of caviar all over...
permanently.
That's forever, girls.
2) DMDM HYDANTOIN.
Restricted from cosmetics in Japan, this little guy also releases formaldehyde and causes skin irritations, migraines, asthma and allergies.
According the EWG, this is a high risk substance rating as high as a 9 out of a possible 10.
3) IMIDAZOLIDINYL UREA.
Don't worry about the pronunciation of this word as much as the spelling.
Read it.
Memorize it.
Know this one when you read labels.
This ingredient is known to cause skin irritations, migraines, allergies and asthma.
Our real concern at MOI is the view expressed in PETA's Caring Consumer.
This ingredient is "Excreted from urine and other bodily fluids.
In deodorants, ammoniated dentifrices, mouthwashes, hair colorings, hand creams, lotions, shampoos, etc.
Used to "brown" baked goods, such as pretzels 4) DIETHANOLAMINE (DEA), MOMOETHANOLAMINE (MEA), and TRIETHANOLAMINE (MEA).
This ingredient is frequently listed as Cocamide DEA on labels and is found in shampoos, bubble baths, exfoliants and scrubs, hair colors and bleaches, body washes and cleansers.
There is strong evidence these are human skin toxicants and human immune system toxicants and moderate evidence that DEA and MEA cause cancer.
5) COAL TAR.
A perfect 10 according the EWG.
This little gem has all the major concerns.
Cancer, organ system toxicity, developmental and reproductive toxicity and contamination concerns.
Coal tar is used in dandruff shampoos, scalp treatments, eczema/damaged skin treatment, bath oils, salts and soaks, redness/rosacea treatments and anti-itch creams.
Banned in Canada and by the European Union for use in cosmetics, coal tar is listed as a known human carcinogen by several agencies.
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