Saturday, July 4, 2009

Skin Deep: Beauty's dangerous price.

Via Boing Boing:

James sez, "The web site Skin Deep covers the issues related to the lack of oversight regarding the safety of cosmetics:"

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.



More at Skin Deep's own website.

1 comment:

  1. In case you're interested:

    Top 10 sunscreens:
    http://www.ewg.org/cosmetics/report/sunscreen09/findyoursunscreen

    Top 10 moisturizers:
    http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/browse.php?category=moisturizer

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