Believe it or not, your makeup products are not being tested for safety. Here’s why this is happening and why we need to start advocating for better beauty.
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I’ve considered myself a clean beauty advocate for quite some time, however, I think that everyone needs to be advocate for this cause, too. I’m on a mission to educate you all so that you get mad, just like me, and join the fight for better beauty for all. The first step is to educate yourself. The second step is to slowly start changing the products you are buying for you and your family. And maybe the third step is joining my Beautycounter team and making the mission your own.
The Disturbing Reason Your Makeup Doesn’t Have to Be Tested For Safety
First things first, think about all the beauty products you use on a daily basis. Or even break it down to just the things you are using before you leave your house in the morning. We’ve got: cleanser, soap, foundation, mascara….just to name a few. And of course, your family – YOUR CHILDREN – are using these products or similar ones, too.
These products that have become a part of our daily routines are not regulated by the government.
Do I need to repeat that?
I think I do.
THEY ARE NOT REGULATED BY OUR GOVERNMENT.
In fact, laws regarding products in the beauty industry have not been changed since 1938.
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1938 is the year that Congress introduced the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. This is the piece of legislation that placed cosmetics under the authority of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Now here we are, a little less than 100 years later, and thanks to our Beautycounter founder and CEO, Gregg Renfrew, and her testimony from a Dec. 4 hearing, things might be changing.
However, until the laws are officially changed, the FDA believes most cosmetic products that are bought and sold in the United States are safe to use, said Susan Mayne, director of the agency’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
You guessed it: moisturizers, perfumes, nail polish, makeup and hair treatments all fall under this category.
Furthermore, manufacturers are not required to register products or list their ingredients with the FDA before putting them on the market.
Um, gulp.
About a third of those companies have voluntarily registered with a database the agency hosts to keep track of cosmetic products that are commercially distributed in the U.S.
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Is there anything being done to change this?
Yes and no.
The Cosmetic Safety Enhancement Act of 2019, a bill drafted by Pallone, would allow the FDA to issue mandatory product recalls, require manufacturers to notify the agency of reported adverse events and provide additional funding to carry out these changes. This is a step in the right direction for the movement to actually modernize cosmetic safety. It would also forcibly drive manufacturers to start registering their ingredients in compliance with the FDA’s Cosmetic Good Manufacturing Practices.
Furthermore, the Safe Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Act of 2019, proposed by Schakowsky, would mandate that manufacturers list all ingredients used in their products — including those that fall under the category of “fragrance,” which are currently exempt from disclosure — among other ingredients. (Side note: manufactures currently do not need to ever list any fragrances currently used in products because it is considered a trade secret. No bueno.)
But until these bills become law, the only thing that you can do is make better choices for you and your family. This is a huge reason I joined Beautycounter and why I’ve switch the whole Cooper family to clean beauty.
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If you are looking for more information, PBS wrote a wonderful article that goes into more detail about what’s happening as a result of poisonous chemicals being put into so many of the beauty products on the market. I beg of you all to take some time to educate yourself on these matters because as we see some many medical issues rise here in the United States, it’s being directly correlated to what’s in our beauty products. We have the power to choose better beauty.
XOXO,
Allison
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