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You probably know about the dangers of lead and the hormone disrupters called pthalates. Maybe you’ve read about all the toy recalls. You’ve might have heard about chemicals in your drinking water, toxic chemicals in cosmetics and bisphenol A in your babies bottles and water bottles. Lowering the toxicity in your environment can seem like an impossible task.

You can minimise the harsh chemicals in your life today!

With a few simple household product choices you can minimise the toxic chemicals your family comes into contact with everyday. The Skin Deep Cosmetics Safety Database is a search tool that shows allows you to type in the name of an ingredient of a houeshold product and it will show you the results of a search of the toxicity and regulatory bodies databases.

The search specifically covers the areas of skin care, makeup, hair care, nails, eye care, feminine hygiene, dental and oral hygiene, and fragrances. Often you will find that these these ingredients are everywhere in the home. Fragrances are found from laundry liquid to toilet spray and there are some fragrances out there that you definitely want to avoid. Here’s an example

The database results are factual and taken from actual ingredient registration with the regulatory bodies that were created to protect us.

• 44,223 products
• 8,457 ingredients

Grab your shampoo, hairspray, lipstick, deodorant, night cream, dishwashing liquid and washing powder, everything you can find in your house and go to this web address www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/

You can type in the product name and if you don’t get a result then type in a couple of the ingredients. I usually start with the most “chemical” sounding name. If it has a name like ethyl, propyl, hydroxy, lauryl, laureth you can bet it has some really nasty side effects. Quite often the ingredients have a high data gap score. This means that more testing is needed and only a small amount of information has been made available. If I type in an ingredient and find that it has a couple of nasty known side effects and also a high data gap number it goes straight in the trash. What you don’t know could hurt you and now thanks to the wonderful people at EWG we have this tool available for free! If you have teenage children you might want to print out some of the results pages so they know just what it is they’re being pressured into putting on their face and in their hair. The regulatory bodies have failed to protect us by allowing these ingredients into our personal care products. It is up to you to protect yourself and your family from these toxic chemicals.

Here are some of the least toxic products on the market. After years of personal “testing” through use, we vow to only stock products which are also effective at their intended job. Too many times we have been disappointed that an all-natural product simply failed to perform at all. Our products are guaranteed to perform. We know because we use them everyday.

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