Every day, we wake up and proceed to the bathroom to apply lotions, serums, and fragrances to our body not knowing that some of those products contain ingredients that may soon be banned by the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act.
If the Safe Cosmetic and Personal Care Products Act of 2018 passes in Congress, some ingredients including cinoxate, benzophenones and toluene, would be banned. If banned, manufacturers would have one year to eliminate the in-question ingredient.
Personal care products haven’t been regulated in 80 years. That’s eight decades of new ingredients being pumped into little bottles and jars.
Recently, NASI talked about the dangerous chemicals found in SPF that are harming our reefs. With more research and advancing technology, it’s important to choose beauty products that will be good for the environment all while being effective and personalized to an individual’s skin type.
Before you make your next purchase, make sure you research what ingredients are in the products you are using to protect yourself and eliminate them from your shelves. See below for a full list of ingredients being evaluated for elimination.
- Benzophenones (benzophenone, benzophenone-1, benzophenone-3 aka oxybenzone);
- Octinoxate;
- Butylated Hydroxyanisole and Butylated Hydroxytoluene;
- Coal tar dyes (p-Phenylenediamine);
- Cocamide Diethanolamine;
- Dibutyalated Phthalate (Phthalates DBP), Bis(2-ethylhexyl) Phthalate (DEHP);
- Toluene;
- Styrene or Styrene acrylates;
- Formaldehydes (Methylene glycol/ methanediol/ formaldehyde) and Formaldehyde-releasing preservatives (DMDM hydantoin, diazolidinyl urea, imidazolidinyl urea, methenamine, quaternium-15 and sodium hydroxymethylglycinate);
- Triclosan;
- Lead acetate or other lead compounds; and
- Parabens (isopropylparaben, isobutylparaben, phenylparaben, benzylparaben, pentylparaben, propylparaben and butylparaben).
