Toxic Beauty? (Video)

4/8/2014
Updated:
4/8/2014

Did you know there are something like 10,000 different unregulated ingredients in cosmetics? That’s why Celebrity makeup artist Katey Denno is here to walk us through the beauty products to stay away from and the best ones for going green!

This Simple App Tells If Your Beauty Products Contain Beastly Chemicals

At the end of the night when I suds up my face, I worry about removing all of my waterproof mascara. I’m not thinking about whether my skin-cleansing pads might make me sick. After all, I bought them at the local drugstore, not on the black market—and toxic chemicals are what the FDA is supposed to protect me from, right?

Well, after going through my bathroom cabinets with the Think Dirty app, I might need some skull and crossbones stickers. The free app lets consumers use search and bar code scanning to find out if our beauty products are potentially poisonous. 

This article was originally published on Take Part, April 08, 2014. Read the complete article here.

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