How Many of These 515 Toxic Chemicals Are In Your Body Products? (Infographic)
If you use conventional body care products, you could be exposing yourself to hundreds of chemicals a day: Here’s a breakdown of those products and the chemicals they contain which are the most potentially problematic.
Think all these chemicals have been tested for safety? Think again—most are on the GRAS list: That acronym stands for “Generally Recognized As Safe” and means only that they have not yet been proven to cause harm in humans, though in many cases they will in the future. I like to practice the precautionary principle, and use natural products (or as close to natural as I can).
You can check what’s in your body-care and hair-care products at the Cosmetics Safety Database.
Image originally published in the Daily Mail.
Starre Vartan
Starre Vartan is founder and editor-in-chief of Eco-Chick.com and the author of the Eco-Chick Guide to Life. She's also a freelance science and environment writer who has published in National Geographic, CNN, Scientific American, Mental Floss, Pacific Standard, the NRDC, and many more. She lives on an island in Puget Sound with her partner and black cat. She was a geologist in her first career, and still picks up rocks wherever she goes.
