What You Don't Know CAN Kill You

5 SURPRISING FACTS ABOUT CHEMICALS FOUND IN COSMETICS

1. Chemicals commonly found in cosmetics have been linked to cancer, birth defects, learning disabilities, asthma, and other illnesses.

2. Just because a product says they are "natural" and "organic, doesn't mean they are. These terms have no legal definition. They call this greenwashing.

3. The Food and Drug Administration does not require all ingredients to be listed in a product. If the chemicals that are listed are toxic, how bad are the ones they don't list?

4. Since 1938, the FDA has banned only ten out of twelve thousand ingredients.

5. There are only 10 banned ingredients in the U.S., but more than 1,400 in Europe. If they are already skin smart in other countries, why not in America?

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