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The other day I stumbled upon a blog that talked about a website: http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com Now I don’t remember the blog but I promise if I stumble across it I will give them credit where credit is due 
Anyway, so I decided to go grab 10 products in my cabinet, but during the grab spree I thought I better start with 4 cause I may be here all night. So I grab my 4 cosmetics products and off to the computer I go. I copied/pasted all info as I went along.
- Blistex Medicated Ointment
- Olay Reginerist Night Recovery Moisturizing treatment
- Suave Advanced Therapy with Multi-vitamin & Glycerin
- Nioxin Volumizing Reflectives Thickening Spray
Now my products immediately give away a snippet of me personally. Notice all my products have something in common. I have dry skin. Holy crap I am dry, dry, dry. Did I mention I was dry? Okay, you get the point. Note #4 the thickening spray does have to do with dryness as my hair is dry and therefore it breaks easily and is fairly thin. So pump up the volume
Okay now for the results. I was so shocked and came away from this experiment realizing I am toxic.
Product Hazard Score
| Blistex Medicated Lip Ointment (lip balm) | 7 & 6 *had 2 scores for exact same product |
| Olay Regenerist Night Recovery Moisturizing Treatment (facial moisturizer/treatment | 7 |
| Suave Skin Therapy Advanced Therapy Lotion with Multivitamins & Glycerin (moisturizer) | 7 |
| Nioxin Volumizing Reflectives Niospray Extra Hold (hair spray) | 8 *NOTE this is not my exact product as I have a Thickening spray and this is hair spray, but close enough |
#1 Blistex: Score 7-Ingredients in this product are linked to: Cancer Developmental/reproductive toxicity Violations, restrictions & warnings Allergies/immunotoxicity
Other concerns for ingredients used in this product:
Neurotoxicity, Persistence and bioaccumulation, Organ system toxicity (non-reproductive), Miscellaneous, Multiple, additive exposure sources, Irritation (skin, eyes, or lungs), Enhanced skin absorption, Contamination concerns, Occupational hazards, Biochemical or cellular level changes
#1a Blistex: Score 6-Ingredients in this product are linked to: Cancer Developmental/reproductive toxicity Violations, restrictions & warnings Allergies/immunotoxicity
Other concerns for ingredients used in this product:
Neurotoxicity, Persistence and bioaccumulation, Organ system toxicity (non-reproductive), Miscellaneous, Multiple, additive exposure sources, Irritation (skin, eyes, or lungs), Contamination concerns, Occupational hazards, Biochemical or cellular level changes
#2 Olay: Ingredients in this product are linked to: Cancer Developmental/reproductive toxicity Violations, restrictions & warnings Allergies/immunotoxicity
Other concerns for ingredients used in this product:
Neurotoxicity, Endocrine disruption, Persistence and bioaccumulation, Organ system toxicity (non-reproductive), Miscellaneous, Multiple, additive exposure sources, Irritation (skin, eyes, or lungs), Enhanced skin absorption, Contamination concerns, Occupational hazards, Biochemical or cellular level changes
#3 Suave: Ingredients in this product are linked to: Cancer Developmental/reproductive toxicity Violations, restrictions & warnings Allergies/immunotoxicity
Other concerns for ingredients used in this product:
Neurotoxicity, Organ system toxicity (non-reproductive), Miscellaneous, Irritation (skin, eyes, or lungs), Enhanced skin absorption, Contamination concerns, Occupational hazards, Biochemical or cellular level changes
#4 Nioxin: Ingredients in this product are linked to: Cancer Developmental/reproductive toxicity Violations, restrictions & warnings Allergies/immunotoxicity
Other concerns for ingredients used in this product:
Neurotoxicity, Persistence and bioaccumulation, Organ system toxicity (non-reproductive), Miscellaneous, Multiple, additive exposure sources, Irritation (skin, eyes, or lungs), Enhanced skin absorption, Contamination concerns, Occupational hazards, Biochemical or cellular level changes
So what does all this tell me? It tells me I need to change products. But if all of my friends and readers are like me, money doesn’t grow on trees around here.
So what will I do? Well for now I will simply finish off my products as I can’t afford to replace them all at the same time. But as I do replace them I will be visiting http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com to see if I can find some safer products that do the same thing. I can research online, write down a few on my shopping list then off to the store I go.
Now what the heck will I do about all the household products. UGH! I feel like our house is a toxic waste site that will burst into flames with me in it any moment.
What an eye opener that site was for me. Time to make some changes.
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Well thank you for your kind words. The hard part is keeping up with my brain, even my mouth stumbles cause I can’t talk fast enough. I guess my brain is overactive and out spurts funny, silly stuff. So I write like I talk, glad to make you giggle.
Oh I hope so to, dry skin is more of a pain than oily skin, itchy and I become charged with electricity easily so I zap hubby, puppy and my self often. Talk about a lightening bolt kiss, makes us both yell ouch and laugh.
Thanks for visiting and come back often.
I can’t help to laugh!
I love to read what you write… as you have a very good ‘ole jolly sense of humor!
I hope you finally, finally, finally find the right dry-skin-fixing thing for you, dear!
Hi and thanks for stopping by. I am glad you found the site useful. Some things we will not be able to avoid but if we can others all the better for our health I am sure.
Hey thanks for sharing this really useful site ! Your post was a real eye-opener …never really checked too much into how hazardous some of our day-to-day products are !
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