Tag: cosmetics
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Make Your Own Exfoliating Scrubs Instead of Using Products With Plastic Microbeads
If you like to have soft, glowing skin but don’t want to pollute our oceans and lakes with plastic microbeads, try these recipes and make your own exfoliating scrub with ingredients from your kitchen. Avocado Foot Softener from Healthy Child Healthy World 2 tablespoons cornmeal 2 tablespoons mashed avocado or avocado oil [caption id=”attachment_311398″ align=”alignnone”…
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Groups Refuse to Withdraw Claim That Revlon Make-up Has Cancer-Causing Chemicals
The Breast Cancer Fund and online women’s group Ultraviolet are refusing a request by Revlon to withdraw their claim that the cosmetics manufacturer uses cancer-causing chemicals in its products. Revlon says a survey recently issued by the two groups is false and defamatory and is demanding that the groups issue a retraction. As reported by EcoWatch last…
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Revlon Under Fire for Cancer-Causing Chemicals in Make-Up
A new survey by The Breast Cancer Fund and the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics says Revlon cosmetics contain cancer-causing and hormone-disrupting chemicals. The two groups, in partnership with the online women’s group UltraViolet, are demanding the cosmetics manufacturer stop using cancer-causing chemicals and other dangerous substances in its products. [caption id="attachment_309950" align="alignnone" width="500"] The survey found carbon black in…
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Revlon Under Fire for Cancer-Causing Chemicals in Make-Up
A new survey by The Breast Cancer Fund and the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics says Revlon cosmetics contain cancer-causing and hormone-disrupting chemicals. The two groups, in partnership with the online women’s group UltraViolet, are demanding the cosmetics manufacturer stop using cancer-causing chemicals and other dangerous substances in its products. [caption id="attachment_309950" align="alignnone" width="500"] The survey found carbon black in…
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Study Shows Plastic Microbeads in Facial Scrubs Pollute Great Lakes
Ever think about what happens to those plastic microbeads in exfoliating products that you rub on your face and body? A new paper gives circumstantial evidence that these micro-particle polyethylene beads, which are less than 1mm in diameter and designed to be washed down the drain, are polluting the Great Lakes. [caption id="attachment_309519" align="alignnone" width="500"] The highest…