GRRRR!!! FDA Lets Shampoo Companies Get Away with Murder

What Kind of toxic, carcinogenic crap is in your perfumes, laundry detergent, and lotion? Well, due to an FDA loophole, companies that make this stuff don’t have to reveal ingredients if they’re part of a ‘fragrance’. The FDA requires companies to list all other ingredients, but fragrances are considered ‘trade secrets’ under an obviously outdated law. Am I the only person who finds this TOTALLY OUTRAGEOUS? Check the Environmental Working Group’s video below (and their great website, the Cosmetics Database, for more information and to support their campaign to get the FDA to work for the American people and not corporations that make personal care products.)

car, corporations, cosmetics, FDA, lotion, personal care products, Shampoo, spa, video

Starre Vartan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Eco-Chick and author of The Eco-Chick Guide to Life (St. Martin's Press). A problogger and oft-quoted green living expert who has been featured in the NYTimes, Elle, Glamour and Whole Living, she is a contributor to The Huffington Post, Inhabitat, and Hearst's The Daily Green, and is currently editor-at-large for Coco Eco Magazine. An active ecofashionista, she has style edited for Plenty magazine and coordinated runway shows. She splits her time between Connecticut and NYC and calls Sydney, Australia her second home, even though it was her first (as that's where she was born and most of her family resides). When not writing, blogging, or researching her next book, she is trailrunning, trying to cook, or snowboarding.

Sorry, nothing found.

5 Comments on “GRRRR!!! FDA Lets Shampoo Companies Get Away with Murder”

Tami

sad….does not have to cost the manufacturer or the consumer a lot of $ to do the right thing. That’s why I started promoting an all natural product…but alas, I can not make a living at that so have had to take a traditional job again. Still use the all natural product line though and at least know our family is better for it as well as the people I have been able to reach. If I simple had the money or backing….I could have helped a lot more people find the truth!

01/16/08 » 8:23 am »
Quick Green Reads For The Weekend Volume Forty Eight. | The Good Human

[...] What Kind of toxic, carcinogenic crap is in your perfumes, laundry detergent, and lotion? Well, due to an FDA loophole, companies that make this stuff don’t have to reveal ingredients if they’re part of a ‘fragrance’. [...]

01/18/08 » 8:01 am »
Male Pattern Baldness: A hoax? « Adios Anticipado

[...] not sure what shampoo and conditioner companies put in their products, but obviously lifetimes spent putting this nonsensical-grease through our folicoles doesn’t [...]

02/25/08 » 9:59 pm »
Toxic Cosmetics - Net Map for Edibles - Drink Your Filtered Pee - and..again with the Paris Hilton | Eco-Thinker

[...] ZapRoot episode 30 | Paris Hilton is Greener Than You! Links referenced: Eco-Chick [...]

03/28/08 » 10:40 am »
Paris Hilton is Greener Than You! | ZapRoot 030 | ZapRoot

[...] Eco-Chick Urban Edibles Ecorazzi TMZ: Paris Hilton Drink Pee Rice Field Art Retro Rocket Ships Superfund365 addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fzaproot.com%2F2008%2F06%2Fparis-hilton-is-greener-than-you-zaproot-030%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Paris+Hilton+is+Greener+Than+You%21+%7C+ZapRoot+030′; addthis_pub = ‘zaproot’; [...]

06/26/08 » 10:43 pm »