Makeup Facts

Mascara & Eye Makeup

Ingredients and pollutants can more easily penetrate the body thru the tear channels and the cornea.

Problematic, yet commonly used ingredients are:

• allergy causing nickel, mercury, chrome heavy metals
• carcinogenic formaldehyde derivatives.

Lipsticks

During a lifetime of regular lipstick use, you actually eat about 5 lbs of lipstick! Most lipsticks contain ingredients that are not healthy at all!

Here are some commonly used problem ingredients:

• carcinogenic synthetic colors like aniline or tartrazin
• silicons and mineral oils
• synthetic sun screen ingredients like oxybenzone or cinnamates.