With spring now officially here, beauty brands are releasing their new lines, filled with bright-colored blushes, lipsticks, and eyeliners. While beauty products easily update your look to make you feel your very best, they may actually be detrimental to your skin and your overall health. You may think that you are using all natural products, but thousands of beauty products actually contain harmful substances.
Enter Skin Deep Cosmetics Database. Created by the EWG, the Environmental Working Group, it is a database that covers practically every beauty product: shampoo, body wash, makeup, and fragrance, and assesses each product’s ingredients and potential risks.
In order to find a product, you simply type it into the search engine, and once it pops up, a number is assigned to it, ranging from 1-10. A score of 1 means that the product is healthy for your skin and your body, whereas a score of 10 means that the product is not the best choice.
Within each description, the EWG breaks the product down into an easy-to-read chart, discussing the overall hazard of the ingredients, the toxicity, possible allergies, and if there is a correlation to a development of cancer. In addition to this, the EWG lists other concerns, ranked from highest to lowest. Underneath this, there is a breakdown of each specific ingredient and another score from 1-10, ranging from healthiest to least healthy.
Even though it may be tedious to search each individual item, it can really shape your understanding of what’s in your products, specifically skincare products. In the end, even switching out a few items can significantly improve your overall health, both inside and out.
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