You may think I'm exaggerating when I talk about the hidden dangers of the moisturizing lotion sitting in your bathroom, or contained in the facial scrub you're using. Sadly, I wish I were.
Just one look at the following statistics will help you realize that the potential dangers in these products are no exaggeration.
Indeed, the dangers are much more real than you may care to acknowledge.
Are you aware that the U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has a list that contains some 10,000 cosmetic and skin care ingredients that you can find right now in your bathroom? You probably take for granted that they're safe.
But more than a whopping 90 percent of them have never been tested for safety. Nope. Not by the FDA. And not by any other publically accountable institution, either.
Hmm. Makes you think, doesn't it?
By contrast, the European Union has already banned more than 1,000 ingredients used in personal and skin care products. Yes, 1,000!
How many ingredients has the FDA banned? Only 10! That's right.
Just a one hundredth of the ingredients Europe has found to be risky.
But the European organization is just starting. It's still looking for more potentially dangerous, damaging, and downright deadly ingredients.
If an ingredient is even suspected of causing cancer, birth defects, or other health problems, officials overseas challenge the ingredients' safety.
There's a bitter irony to all of this, though. It's been proven that the more synthetic, damaging ingredients are in a skin care product -- from soap to moisturizers -- the less effective the product actually is.
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