Whole Foods Market bans 180+ ingredients commonly used in beauty and body products. They believe some things don’t belong in the products you use on your body. Their experts review the latest research on beauty and body care ingredients for many factors, including possible impacts on the environment and human health. We’ve banned more than 180 typically used ingredients, including parabens, phthalates, formaldehyde donors, oxybenzone, PFAS and EDTA.
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FDA
Under U.S. law, cosmetic products and ingredients do not need FDA approval before they go on the market. The one exception is color additives (other than coloring materials used in coal-tar hair dyes), which must be approved for their intended use. Companies and individuals who market cosmetics have a legal responsibility to ensure the safety of their products. In order to take action for safety reasons against a cosmetic on the market, we need reliable information showing that it is unsafe when consumers use it according to the directions in the labeling or in the customary or expected way.
Webinar: Treating skin conditions
Offered by Province Apothecary, specialized in holistic healing and plant medicine. Province Apothecary’s mission is to harness the power of nature to help everyone feel confident and comfortable in their skin. The team has offered some very helpful resources in treating skin conditions.
Beauty Heros’s Definition of Clean Beauty
Mindfully created products define clean Beauty without any proven or suspected toxic ingredients. Clean Beauty products include ethically sourced ingredients and are made with the health of our bodies and the environment in mind. Find out more how Beauty Hero define Clean Beauty.
Story on Cosmetics
The Story of Cosmetics, released on July 21, 2010, examines the pervasive use of toxic chemicals in our everyday personal care products, from lipstick to baby shampoo. The seven-minute film reveals the implications for consumer and worker health and the environment, and outlines ways we can move the industry away from hazardous chemicals and towards safer alternatives.
Campaign For Safe Cosmetics
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics (CSC) leads the movement to make beauty and personal care products safer for all.
Credo – The Credo Clean Standard
Credo cares deeply about people and the planet. We are curious and committed, and we ask questions of the beauty industry supply chain so that together, we can bring better products to market. We use the information we gather to make informed choices about brands and products we carry, to refine and strengthen The Credo Clean Standard™, and to positively impact the industry and move it forward, to the extent that we can.
METAvivor
METAvivor is dedicated to the specific fight of women and men living with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. At the time of METAvivor’s founding, no organization was dedicated to funding research for the disease and no patient groups were speaking out about the dearth of stage 4 cancer research. While more and more people have taken up the cry for more stage 4 research, METAvivor remains the sole US organization dedicated to awarding annual stage 4 breast cancer research.
How toxic are beauty products?
There comes a point in every woman’s life where she looks down at her favorite foundation or sunscreen and thinks: “I wonder what’s IN this stuff?” If this hasn’t happened to you yet, it’s time. In this episode of #BeautyExperienced Anna goes on a mission to learn all about green beauty.
Natural Beauty Your Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Best Natural Beauty Products
To understand the context, here’s some clean beauty 101: The personal care industry (meaning things like lipstick, shampoo, lotion, deodorant, and toothpaste) is entirely unregulated in the United States. In layman’s terms, this means no third party, like the FDA, monitoring the safety of the products most use multiple times a day.