Oy Vey! Seems Like All Our Favorites Are Dangerous...

Just came across this website, and I'm not happy ;–(. Seems all the stuff we
like to use have serious safety problems. They name top brands and give the
problem ingredients in hair, skincare, fragrance, dental etc. A scary site.
http://www.ewg.org/reports/skindeep/
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"Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to
accept God's final word on where your lips end."
––Jerry Seinfeld

Just came across this website, and I'm not happy ;–(. Seems all the
stuff we
like to use have serious safety problems. They name top brands and give
the
problem ingredients in hair, skincare, fragrance, dental etc. A scary
site.
http://www.ewg.org/reports/skindeep
I haven't looked but am sure that I will probably die from inhalation
of Paul Mitchell Freeze and Shine hairspray which I use every single
day.
Or there will be some dangerous chemical in the Duwop Reverse Lipliner
and of course, any lipstick that I may apply.
And, speaking of lipstick, particularly red lipstick, I bet those red
Hot Tamales candies that I like are also on the danger list and should
be of concern to me. LOL
Oh well.
Carol

On 11 Jan 2005 20:31:50 GMT, sheel...@aol.com (Sheellah) wrote:
I really glad Comptoir Sud Pacifique ranks really low – 1.1 to 2.3 on a scale of 1–10
Thanks for the site Rochelle.
Jackie
Support your local Attorney....Send your kid to Medical School!

So the bottom line is, is life without Nail Envy, or St. Ives Apricot
Scrub, or NARS Cream eyeshadow even worth living? ;–)
––
Jen in ND

"Jen in ND" <jeNDo...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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No, the bottom line is it's better not to know things.
Audrey

One has to wonder what will be left to us. Is there anything that
doesnt "cause cancer"? Must we feel guilty about everything we enjoy?
Our food, the sun, the water, the air...and now our make–up??....Yes, I
guess I just wish I didnt know it...:))

<<One has to wonder what will be left to us. Is there anything that
doesnt "cause cancer"? Must we feel guilty about everything we enjoy?
Our food, the sun, the water, the air...and now our make–up??....Yes, I
guess I just wish I didnt know it...:))>>
It helps to know that EVERYTHING causes cancer in rats.
Lily

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 02:25:02 –0500, Lily wrote:
The converse of that is almost EVERYTHING cures cancer in laboratory
rats.

"Lily" <Lil...@webtv.net> wrote in message
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And yet...they remain huge problems in many areas, so instead of trying
to poison the little rat bastards, shouldn't we just make them the hell over???
OH, and if anyone thinks they are gonna steal this idea for a "reality show"
think again...(take a REAL good look at Paris H, why don't you!)
Karen––new TV mogul

"Frayed" <fra...@ix.netcom.comnobush> wrote in message
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Keanu Reeves for the male lead, please.
cofarb

Forget it don't worry about this. I work for a major federal agency
that assesses cancer risk and most of what they are saying are scare
tactics. There are risks to everything we do. Even too much water
could be toxic. For most of these substances, you would have to
ingest gallons of them on a repeated basis internally to get cancer,
over many years. Think about it, most cosmetics are applied externally
and don't really get inside the body where they could have carcinogenic
affects. For example hair is essentially dead and so what you apply to
it doesn't get into your body. So don't worry, be happy. And continue
to apply. Just don't drink the stuff.

On 12 Jan 2005 16:04:57 –0800, bumblebee4451 wrote:
Usually when this happens, the patient fits into one of these
categories:
a) Baby overwatered by Mommy
b) Trying to replace fluid w/o electrolytes
c) Schizophrenic
Well, if it gets to your scalp, it can penetrate the skin... as the
person who found out hair color turned into pee color:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=4800322&dopt=Abstract

On 11 Jan 2005 19:17:04 –0800, katiegirl wrote:
Despite the alarmist propaganda to the contrary, dihydrogen monoxide.
It doesn't cause cancer, but it has to be present for cancer to exist.

I worry that self–tanners may be unhealthy for me because sometimes after I
apply them I feel a bit weird or nautious. In this case I am applying a
chemical substance to my skin over my entire body. I do think some chemical
gets absorbed into my bloodstream. Because it makes me feel weird, I rarely
use self–tanners or if I do I apply to a part of my body at a time and do
other parts later. In other words, common sense.
Hair spray makes me dizzy to breathe in but I use it almost never and if I
do I hold my breath. Again, common sense.
Hair color – It is unpleasant to breathe in but hey, I just gotta do it!
Vanity wins out over common sense!!! Hehehe.

sheel...@aol.com (Sheellah) wrote in
news:20050111153150.16401.00000...@mb–m16.aol.com:
I wouldn't put too much stock in anything EWG has to say. They've got a
major political agenda and aren't above painting a biased portrait or using
studies out of context to score points.
––
use...@yahoo.com
www.rpcc.org

using
While I don't doubt there could be health issues related to a lot of the
products we use, I agree with you that the site reads like the organization
is predisposed to their conclusions. I am not familiar with the EWG.

Miss Livvy wrote:
I wouldn't put too much stock in anything EWG has to say. They've
got a
major political agenda and aren't above painting a biased portrait
or
the
organization
I read the site briefly. It cites many ingredients as problematic
because they *may* contain impurities. Is there any evidence that they
do? What impurities? It cites other ingredients as problematic
because they increase the skin's ability to absorb other substances,
thereby increasing the risk of absorbing something problematic –– even
if there is nothing otherwise problematic in the formulation itself.
Then, of course, there was the plethora of *untested* ingredients.
It IS interesting, and I wish that I had the time to read the
information in detail. For now, however, I figure that I am dabbing on
a drop or two of product, not mainlining the stuff; I'm almost certain
to die of something else before my foundation gets me.
Barbara