Personal Care Products (M2.4 Blog Assignment: Jane Hoolihan and Advocacy Organizations on Toxics)


Jane Hoolihan Advocacy Organization on Toxics in Personal Products video shocked us with the information about the chemicals in the cosmetics and the harmful effect that can produce.
 From the speaker, we know now that we have around 125000 chemicals in the cosmetics and the women are using around 12 products on daily basis which contain around 175 chemicals that they are exposed to, and the teenagers are using around 16 products daily, we are exposed through skin absorption, inhalation, and ingestion of these chemicals.
Less than 20% of these chemicals are tested for safety these chemicals have terrible effects including carcinogenic factors, interfere with body’s natural hormones like reproductive and thyroid, and other serious harmful effects.
Some examples of the chemicals and the bad effect that cause are:
1-    Formaldehyde is considered as carcinogenic.
2-    1,4 dioxan is cancer causing chemical like breast cancer.
3-    Toxic Tri is considered as carcinogenic and allergic.
4-    Toluene is considered toxic and affect kidney and liver
5-    Dibutyl phthalate affect thyroid function.
6-    Triclosan is thyroid and reproductive hormone disrupter.
7-    Coal tar cause cancer, human respiratory toxicant, and allergic reaction.
8-    Skin lightening creams decrease melanin pigments and cause skin cancer.
9-    Fragrance increase breast cancer and prostate cancer and also cause reproductive toxicity.

On personal level, we can take an action to decrease our exposure to the chemicals through:
1-    Use less products and less often.
2-    Read the ingredients label and compare it.
3-    Skip fragrance containing fragrance as an ingredient.
4-    Make our safe cosmetics by ourselves.
5-    Buy from companies making safer products or they are committed for safer products or they disclose their ingredients.

Other action we can take include
-       Take part in online action.
-       Participate in in our community action.
-       Speak up for the safe cosmetic act.
-       Donate to the non-profit organization.


Finally, we need to keep push on the legislators and the government to reform the policy and change the law to make the laws able to protect us by banning the carcinogenic and toxicants ingredients for the cosmetic products, give more power for the FDA to be able to assess the safety of pre-marketing products, authority for mandatory recalls, and force the companies to disclose the ingredients of the cosmetic products.

Comments

  1. Brittany AFebruary 4, 2018 at 10:14 PM

    You are absolutely right about pushing the legislators and the government to reform the policy and change the law to force companies to disclose the ingredients of the cosmetic products. It will force companies to put better ingredients in their products.

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  2. UnknownFebruary 5, 2018 at 7:45 PM

    Agreed, team! I believe the strongest impact for change will come from legislation. I think it is necessary and urgent. I was surprised at how little regulation there is.

    Ali, I am glad you included all the facts and science!

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