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Think Dirty, Shop Clean: free A handy iphone app which is available free from the itunes store. Using barcode scanning technology to identify products and rate them on a scale of 0-10 based on product ingredient listings (0 being you can almost eat it, to 10 meaning that no green girl worth her kale would touch it) . Hailing from Canada, the app indicates if a product has any potentially harmful ingredients and allergens using The National Library of Medicine’s Hazardous Substances Data Bank , the Environmental Working Group and other not for profit organizations. With a clever design it makes shopping for your green friends and family more like a game than a puzzle.

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Today’s Notable Young Entrepreneur is Lily Tse, who founded the Think Dirty app to educate consumers about the potentially toxic ingredients in cosmetics and personal care products. What was the.

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Making an informed decision about cosmetics and personal care products just became a whole lot easier—thanks to the development of two new apps that will deliver specific product ratings and ingredient information right to your fingertips

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A new app aims to inform customers of potential toxins that could be lurking in your makeup.

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Whoa. I think Grist has found one of the most helpful apps I’ve ever seen. The environmental news site recently reported on Think Dirty — a free app that tells you if a beauty product contains potentially toxic chemicals.

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Looking to order food, get directions, or find a date? There’s an app for that. There’s an app for almost anything you could possibly need. And now, there’s even an app to tell you what toxins are in your makeup.

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Beauty Industry: App designed to help reveal potential toxins that exist in products

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Consumers worried about what might be lurking within their cosmetics and skin care products can turn to new applications that scan bar codes to review the items for safety.

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With labelling terms like organic, holistic, and natural dominating the beauty aisle, it’s really hard to figure out what products are safe, and which ones we should avoid.

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Lily Tse of the Think Dirty app. Although many products are labelled “all-natural” or “organic,” there is little transparency in labelling cosmetics and personal care products. Tse’s app is a tool for consumers to find information easily.

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