After numerous complaints from consumers about neurological and respiratory problems from use of Eternity, a perfume sold by Calvin Klein, the California-based Environmental Health Network in 1999 hired two independent laboratories to analyze Eternity’s ingredients. Testing revealed forty-one different toxic ingredients in concentrations ranging from 0.1 to 12 percent, including allergens, carcinogens, and other harmful substances.¹ The Cancer Prevention Coalition was asked to analyze and review these findings. Based on the products’ Material Safety Data Sheets, which chemical manufacturers must provide companies purchasing their products, they discovered the following disturbing information: twenty-six of the perfume’s ingredients fell into the categories “Toxicological properties have not been investigated” or “Toxicological properties have not been thoroughly investigated.” Twenty-five ingredients were classified as “irritants.” Five more ingredients were allergens or “skin sensitizers.” Three possessed “fetal, hormonal and reproductive toxicity.” And two more ingredients were designated as “may cause cancer.”² A subsequent Citizen’s Petition to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration urging the Agency to require a warning label on the perfume, filed jointly in May 1999 by the Environmental Health Network and the Cancer Prevention Coalition, was ignored. The FDA claimed the reason was “other priorities and the limited availability of resources.”³

Eternity is far from alone in its toxic composition among perfumes and cosmetics. An investigation by the Environmental Working Group in 2007 found that at least 400 cosmetics products sold in the U.S. contain ingredients that “the U.S. cosmetic industry’s own safety panel has determined to be unsafe when used as directed.” The analysis also revealed that 751 personal-care products marketed in the U.S. either “violate industry safety standards or cosmetic safety standards in other industrialized countries.”⁴

Perfumes and fragrances, including essential oils, are the largest single category of personal-care product. Fragrances are especially common as a component of hair, facial, eye, and nail products. And the most prominent dangers in perfume and fragrances are allergens.

Allergens are a large group of natural and synthetic chemicals that cause immunological sensitization of the skin, known as allergic contact dermatitis. This is entirely different from non-specific dermatitis, also known as irritant contact dermatitis, which originates with skin irritation from dryness and other damage.⁵

Allergic contact dermatitis involves two distinct stages. First, the skin comes into contact with an allergen, which sensitizes specific “memory cells” to that allergen. Subsequent exposure to the allergen, some five to ten days later, causes the sensitized cells to release specific molecules (known as cytokines), which trigger an allergic reaction. This reaction can range from mere itching and transient redness to swelling, blistering, and ulceration. While this reaction is initially localized to the immediate area of the allergen-exposed skin, it may spread and require treatment with antihistamines and cortisone, or even hospitalization. Fatal anaphylactic shock has even been reported as a rare complication.

There have been many and varying estimates on the frequency of allergic contact dermatitis in the general adult population, though the consensus is that the incidence of allergic contact dermatitis in most nations has expanded significantly over recent decades. Probably one of the best estimates is provided by a Danish study done on people between fifteen and sixty-nine years of age.⁶ It showed that the overall incidence of sensitization in the Danish population, which in 1990 was 15 percent, had increased to 19 percent by 1998.

Numerous allergenic ingredients are present both in perfumes, which are used mostly by women, and in fragrances, which are added to most cosmetics and personal-care products used by everyone, and there is a clear link between exposure to these allergens and the dramatic increase we have seen in allergies over the past few decades. A large-scale survey by the North American Contact Dermatitis Group found that the incidence of cosmetic allergy, which from 1992 to 1994 was 11 percent of the population, increased to 14 percent from 1994 to 1996⁷—an increase of millions of people, mainly women. Perfumes and fragrances are, by far, the most common causes of allergic contact dermatitis. In fact, the incidence of cosmetic allergy in the U.S. population (about 14 percent) is twice that of food allergy (about 7 percent), which is noteworthy in view of recent legislation requiring consumer-friendly label warnings for food allergens.⁸

This is particularly critical to know because the synthetic fragrance market is currently growing by leaps and bounds—and it is likely synthetics that are causing most of the trouble. The chemicals that give perfumes and fragrances their aromas are manufactured in one of three ways: chemical synthesis from petrochemicals; chemical modification of isolates from natural sources; or direct extraction from natural sources. In various combinations, perfumes and fragrances use at least 5,000 different ingredients, and about 95 percent of these are synthetic. A single American or French designer perfume can contain up to sixty ingredients, nearly all synthetic. These synthetic ingredients can appear at concentrations up to 35 percent in perfumes, though they are used at much lower concentrations in fragrances. The discovery of highly potent “aroma boosters,” which can be added to synthetic fragrances and perfumes to give them more power, means products will need less of the organic ingredients to achieve the same intensity of aroma. (Some of these boosters are also toxic in their own right. The latest of these boosters is cyclooctane carbaldehyde, which has been shown to be highly toxic to the kidneys.³)

Another link between fragrances and allergens: Fragrances may also be involved in causing asthma. Asthma is a chronic allergic condition that affects more than 20 million people in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and about 300 million people worldwide, based on World Health Organization statistics. More than half of all asthmatics have reported experiencing asthma attacks triggered by fragrances or odors, and numerous allergenic ingredients have been identified in perfumes. Warning labels for twenty-six of them are already required by the European Union. This may also provide a clue as to why one in ten people in the U.S. suffers from bouts of asthma, compared to only one in twenty of the world’s population. The U.S. has long been the world’s leading innovator in adding fragrances to products, especially cosmetics and personal-care products. Also, “The prevalence of asthma (in the U.S.) has been increasing since the early 1980s for all age, sex, and racial groups,” reports the National Institutes of Health’s Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and that jump in the incidence of asthma coincides with the immense surge of fragrances being added to consumer products in the 1970s and ’80s.⁶

Allergens are not, however, the only, or even the most serious, danger of perfumes and fragrances. In 2007, Consumer Reports financed lab testing of eight perfumes selected at random found hormone-disruptive phthalates DBP and DEHP in every one of them.

And in a 1986 report to a committee of the U.S. Congress, the National Academy of Sciences labeled certain fragrance ingredients as neurotoxins. And yet, despite this finding about the impact of fragrance chemicals on the human brain, the FDA rejected citizen petitions urging that product labels clearly list fragrance ingredients so consumers could, at the very least, make informed choices.

A revealing summary on the absence of regulatory oversight of the fragrance industry and the potential health problems associated with the regular use of or exposure to fragrances appeared in a 2002 issue of Flavor and Fragrance Journal. It is worth quoting a few passages from that paper to illustrate the challenges that consumers faced then and still face today:

There is little information available on the materials used in fragrance. Fragrance formulas are considered trade secrets and components that make up the fragrance portion of the product are not revealed on labels. Fragrance is increasingly cited as a trigger in health conditions such as asthma, allergies and migraine headaches. In addition, some fragrance materials have been found to accumulate in adipose tissue and are present in breast milk. Other materials are suspected of being hormone disrupters. The implications are not fully known, as there has been little evaluation of systemic effects. There are environmental concerns as well, as fragrances are volatile compounds, which add to both indoor and outdoor air pollution. At present there is little governmental regulation of fragrance. The fragrance industry has in place a system of self-regulation. However, the present system has failed to address many of the emerging concerns.⁹

As early as 1992, a publication in Obstetrics & Gynecology reported information that frequent talc use on the genital area increases a woman’s risk of ovarian cancer threefold—using information that was already a decade old. “The most frequent method of talc exposure,” the study reported, “was use as a dusting powder directly to the perineum [genitals].... Brand or generic ‘baby powder’ was

Table 7: Allergens in Perfumes and Fragrances

Alpha isomethyl ionone	Farnesol*
Amyl cinnamal*	Fennel oil
Amyl cinnamyl alcohol*	Geraniol*
Anise alcohol*	Hexyl cinnamal*
Balsam of Peru*	Hydroxycitronellol*
Benzyl alcohol*	Isoeugenol*
Benzyl benzoate*	Isomethyl ionone*
Benzyl cinnamate*	Jasmine absolute
Benzyl salicylate*	Lanolin and lanolin alcohols
Butylphenyl/methylpropional*	Lavender oil
Cetyl alcohol	Lemongrass oil
Cinnamal*	Limonene*
Cinnamic aldehyde*	Linalool
Cinnamyl alcohol*	Methyl coumarin
Citral*	Methyl-2 octynoate*
Citronellol*	Narcissus absolute
Clove oil	Nitro musks
Coumarin*	Oakmoss*
Eugenol*	Phthalates
Evernia furfuracea (treemoss extract)*	Resorcinol
Evernia furfuracea (treemoss extract)*	Vanillin
Evernia prunastri (oakmoss extract)*	Ylang-ylang*
Evernia prunastri (oakmoss extract)*
*Warning labels required by the European Union

used most frequently and was the category associated with a statistically significant risk for ovarian cancer.”¹⁰

In 1994 and again in 1996 (as related in chapter 4), the Cancer Prevention Coalition and the New York Center for Constitutional Rights, endorsed by the Ovarian Cancer Early Detection and Prevention Program and leading scientists, submitted a Citizen’s Petition to the FDA demanding that talc genital dusting powder be labeled with an explicit cancer warning. The FDA inexplicably denied the petition.

How to Diagnose Allergic Dermatitis

Diagnosing the cause of allergic dermatitis is done based on the location of the rash, coupled with information on recent product of use. For instance, a rash on the neck or wrists is commonly associated with the recent use of perfumes at these sites, while a rash on the head is generally associated with the recent use of hair dyes. A rash on the fingertips suggests a reaction to nail polish.

Diagnosis may be more difficult if a patient is not seen by a dermatologist until weeks after allergic dermatitis’s onset. By this time, the dermatitis may have spread well beyond the originally exposed area, and the patient may be hazy about his or her past product use. In these circumstances, diagnosis generally requires a diagnostic test known as the patch test.

In a patch test, a drop of liquid containing a mix of commonly known allergens is applied to the skin. The skin is then covered by an occlusive tape, and after two days the tape is removed and the skin inspected. Local redness and swelling indicate that the reaction is due to one of the allergens in the test mix. In the absence of any local reaction, the test is repeated with a different mix of allergens, particularly those recently used in products.

Commercial patch test kits are available as a “fragrance mix” (FM) of seven common allergens. Included in both the North American and the European Standard Patch Test trays: balsam of Peru; hydroxycitronellol; cinnamyl alcohol; cinnamic aldehyde; oakmoss; eugenol; and geraniol. The highest concentration of FM allergens is found in prestige perfumes. However, the FM test fails to identify up to 30 percent of fragrance allergens. Among the most important are essential oils, particularly lemongrass, jasmine absolute, and ylang-ylang.

“Fragrance-Free” and “Hypoallergenic”

Some cosmetics, and other fragranced products, are labeled “fragrance-free” even if they contain fragrance ingredients. Also, some companies misleadingly label their cosmetics, if they do not contain any of the few allergenic ingredients tested for in Standard Patch Test trays, as “hypoallergenic.” While the “hypoallergenic” label, not to mention other labels such as “allergy tested” and “safe for sensitive skin,” have considerable promotional value, they can mean just about whatever any particular company wants them to mean. Manufacturers of these products are not required to do any testing to validate these claims.

In the continuing absence of any action or response from the FDA, on May 13, 2008, the Cancer Prevention Coalition, with endorsements from leading scientific experts and consumer organizations, including the International Association for Humanitarian Medicine, the Organic Consumers Association, and Dr. Faye Williams of the National Congress of Black Women, submitted a second petition to the FDA, further updating the scientific evidence on the lethal effects of talc. It requested that the FDA require that all cosmetic talc products bear labels with a warning such as: “Frequent application of talcum powder in the female genital area substantially increases the risk of ovarian cancer.”

Evidence supporting the petition was based on twelve science articles published in such medical journals as Cancer, The Lancet Oncology, and the International Journal of Cancer since the previous petition was denied. These convincingly confirmed the causal link between genital application of talc and ovarian cancer. One of these major studies, in 2003 for the journal Anticancer Research, did what is known as a “meta-analysis” of sixteen other published studies involving a total of 11,933 subjects. This confirmed a statistically significant 33 percent increased risk of ovarian cancer associated with the genital use of talc.

As stated in the 2008 petition, J. Mande, Acting Associate Commissioner for Legislative Affairs of the Department of Health and Human Services, admitted in August 1993 that

We are aware that there have been reports in the medical literature between frequent female perineal talc dusting over a protracted period of years, and an incremental increase in the statistical odds of subsequent development of certain ovarian cancers.... (However) at the present time, the FDA is not considering to ban, restrict or require a warning statement on the label of talc containing products.

Also noted in the petition: In an August 12, 1992, New York Times article, manufacturer and retailer of talc dusting powder Johnson & Johnson admitted that frequent genital dusting with talc increases risks of ovarian cancer threefold—a risk belatedly admitted in 2008 by the industry’s Cosmetic Toiletry and Fragrance Association as well. And in 2002, Edward Kavanaugh, president of the industry’s Cosmetic Toiletry and Fragrance Association, acknowledged that talc is “toxic” and “can reach the human ovaries.”

The 2008 petition goes on to point out how in 1997, Senator Edward Kennedy, in a statement to the U.S. Senate, had urged the FDA to place a cancer warning on the label of talc products, along with other products containing known carcinogens. More than a decade later, the Agency still remained unresponsive.

As noted in chapter 4, the FDA’s response to this petition is still pending as of this writing.

What Is Really in Your Lipstick?

The practice of coloring one’s lips to appear more attractive to potential romantic partners has been around since the time of Cleopatra, who painted her lips with carmine and henna to give them a fashionable appeal for her Roman suitors. It turns out, however, that many of those colored kisses are poisoned: Most brand-name lipsticks sold in the U.S. contain detectable levels of lead that can be toxic to the wearer, according to a 2007 study by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. Of thirty-three brands of lipstick sent to an independent laboratory for analysis, 61 percent contained lead. Many lead levels were much higher than what the FDA allows for candy (0.1 parts per million)—the only standard we can use to measure against, because the FDA has set no limits for lead in lipstick.¹²

Beware of Powdered Titanium Dioxide

Titanium dioxide loose powder is used by cosmetics companies as a whitening agent in facial powders, which are marketed mainly to women.

Powdered and ultrafine titanium dioxide dust is a carcinogen that has been implicated in respiratory tract cancer in rats exposed during laboratory testing. Canada’s Centre for Occupational Health & Safety issued an alert in 2006 warning employers to “review their occupational hygiene programs to ensure that exposure to titanium dioxide dust is eliminated or reduced to the minimum possible.” Manufacturers were advised to alter product labels to reflect this danger.

The Canadian alert was based on the International Agency for Research on Cancer’s classification of titanium dioxide as a carcinogen in 2006. By 1995, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health had also confirmed that titanium dioxide induces lung cancer in rodents following inhalation and that there is no safe exposure level.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Material Safety Data Sheet on this substance further warns: “Precautions: Do not breathe dust. Causes respiratory tract irritation.” It also notes: “Protective Equipment: Be sure to use an approved respirator” if handling the powder.

Titanium dioxide powder particle size is very fine, less than one micron, which is why it is readily inhaled deeply into human lungs. Though titanium dioxide appears in sunblocks, toothpastes, and other non-powdered products, it poses no similar threat to health in those non-powder forms. But dozens of women’s facial powders containing titanium dioxide are widely available on store shelves, often without indicating titanium dioxide’s inclusion on product labels because it is not considered an active ingredient. Barbers and hairdressers sometimes fluff the powder on their customer’s faces. Actors and actresses, along with others who appear frequently on television, also have high exposure levels.

Manufacturers of some “natural” lines of cosmetics remain wholly uninformed or misinformed about titanium dioxide’s carcinogenic risk. Earth Beauty Cosmetics, for instance, advertises its Real Purity product as containing titanium dioxide. Our survey of other brands of “natural solutions” cosmetic powders, such as Logona Cosmetics and Sante Kosmetics, also found titanium dioxide to be a common additive.

Skin Whiteners

Skin whiteners or lighteners are now being intensively marketed to women of African and Asian descent. These lighteners are now the world’s fastest growing product category and comprise 10 percent of the Asian cosmetic market.

Whiteners contain two active ingredients, the potent natural hormone cortisone and the frank carcinogen hydroquinone (an ingredient banned in Europe that poses risks of leukemia and genetic damage¹¹). This combination inhibits the natural production of melanin, the compound responsible for dark pigmentation of the skin.

What the report fails to take into account is that the lead in lipsticks is a contaminant, not an ingredient, and as such is not subject to any regulation.

The four worst offending brands were:

• L’ Oreal Colour Riche “True Red”

• L’Oreal Colour Riche “Classic Wine”

• Cover Girl Incredifull Lipcolor “Maximum Red”

• Christian Dior Addict “Positive Red”

A year earlier, a television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, had five brands of lipstick tested by a laboratory, and lead was detected in every sample. Other similar tests initiated by media outlets in other parts of the country found lead in lipstick to be about four times the FDA safety limit for lead in candy sold in stores.¹³ Lead as a contaminant has also been found in lip glosses and lip conditioners.

This is bad news for most women and for the two-thirds of girls ten years old and younger who experiment with lip products. Each time a woman or girl wearing lipstick wets or licks her lips, especially when eating, she ingests some of the lipstick’s chemicals. Those same chemicals are also absorbed directly through her lips and into her bloodstream. The subsequent lead exposure can result in slow poisoning as lead accumulates in the body over time. Lead is readily absorbed by the body, accumulates in bone, remains highly persistent, and is highly toxic to the nervous system, particularly in embryos, and babies born with lead exposure that occurred in the womb, as well as children exposed to lead, can develop serious complications, including decreased attention span, impulsiveness, lowered IQ, seizures, aggressiveness, and even brain damage.

“The problem with lead in the body is that it mimics other biologically important metals such as iron, calcium, and zinc,” says Dr. Edward C. Geehr, former Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. “By taking the place of these metals in certain proteins and molecules, lead interferes with normal biological processes. For example, it hampers certain neurotransmitters responsible for learning and brain development. Lead also interferes with enzymes critical to the production of red blood cells, leading to a form of anemia similar to that caused by iron deficiency. Gastrointestinal symptoms of lead poisoning include constipation, diarrhea, vomiting, metallic taste, and weight loss.”¹⁴

Unsafe Lipsticks Versus Safer Lipsticks

Out of 393 brands of lipsticks rated on the “Skin Deep” Web site (www.cosmeticsdatabase.com) maintained by the Environmental Working Group, only six were given a top rating of safest (and one of these contained an ingredient potentially contaminated by toxins), while seventy-eight were categorized as hazardous based on the toxicity of their ingredients. The rest of the brands fell somewhere in between on a scale of 0 (most safe) to 10 (most hazardous).

The highest hazard lipsticks in the database:

• Avon Color Trend Essential Lipstick

• Avon Ultra Color Rich

• Color Me Beautiful Class Cream

• Dior Addict Lipstick

• Estée Lauder Pure Color Cystal

• Palladio Lipstick

• Philosophy the supernatural Cream Lipstick

• Philosophy word of mouth lipstick

• Revlon Moisture Cream Lipstick

• Revlon Moisture Frost (all colors)

• Revlon Moon Drops (thirty-three different variations)

• Revlon Super Lustrous (twenty-one different variations)

• Studio Gear Luxury Lipstick

• Sue Devitt Studio Matte Lipstick (four different variations)

• Sue Devitt Studio Sheer Lipstick (four different variations)

• Vincent Longo Cream Frost Lipstick, Natural

• Zhen Cream Lipstick

Five of the safer lipsticks from the study are listed under “Safe Products for Women” in this chapter. (The sixth, Afterglow Cosmetics lipstick, contains the potentially contaminated ingredient lanolin.)

Unfortunately, even after you find a brand of lipstick that has been tested for lead content and found safe, there is yet another safety hurdle to overcome. Laboratory tests done in 2004 by the National Environmental Trust discovered unlabeled hormone-disruptive phthalates in Revlon Moondrops Lipstick, as well as in other well-known brands.¹⁵

Table 8: Toxic Ingredients in Products for Women

INGREDIENT	TOXIC EFFECT(S)
Benzyl alcohol	Allergen
Ceteareths	Contaminated with the carcinogens eth ylene oxide and dioxane
Disodium EDTA	Penetration enhancer and hormone disrupter
Limonene	Carcinogen
Parabens	Hormone disrupters
Phthalates (DEHP and	Hormone disrupters DEP)
Polyethylene glycol (PEG)	Contaminated with ethylene oxide and dioxane
Laureths	Contaminated with ethylene oxide and dioxane
Talc (talcum powder)	Carcinogen
Triethanolamine (TEA)	Precursor of the carcinogen nitrosamine

Safe Products for Women

PERFUMES

Bella Mira Organic Angelica Root Essential Oil

One of several dozen fragrances in this product line with no chemical solvents.

INGREDIENTS (organic): steam-distilled angelica root essential oil

www.aundantlifeessentials.com

Coastal Classic Creations “Quiet Waters” Tuberose Perfume

INGREDIENTS: organic sweet almond oil, organic tuberose oil

www.coastalclassiccreations.com

Cosmic Tree Essentials Chocolate Cosmos Botanical Scent

INGREDIENTS: caprylic/capric trigyceride, theobroma cacao (cocoa) absolute, vanilla planifolia (vanilla) absolute

www.cosmictree.ca

GENITAL POWDER

Any common brand of talcum powder poses a threat to health. At least forty published scientific studies have found evidence that women who dust themselves with powder containing talc particles for hygiene purposes substantially raise their risks of ovarian cancer.

Organic cornstarch powder is a reliable, safe, and readily available alternative to talc for the dusting of genital areas and also for feminine hygiene.

LIPSTICKS

Barefaced Mineral Cosmetics Natural Lipstick

INGREDIENTS: castor oil, sesame oil, coconut oil, cocoa oil, candelilla wax, meadowfoam seed oil, cocoa butter, mango butter, shea butter, tocopherol, iron oxides

www.barefacedminerals.com

CARGO Reverse Lipliner for Gloss or Lipstick

INGREDIENTS: titanium dioxide, iron oxides, hydrogenated palm kernel glycerides, hydrogenated palm glycerides, hydrogenated vegetable oil, talc, tocopherol, caprylic/caprictriglycerida, Japan wax, ascorbyl palmitate

www.drugstore.com

Musq Lipstick

INGREDIENTS: castor seed oil, jojoba seed oil, mica, carnauba wax, candelilla wax, shea butter, orange peel oil, tocopherol, titanium dioxide, iron oxides, ultramarines, pigment violet

www.musq.com.au

RJ Mineral Cosmetics Lipstick

100 percent vegan in twenty-six shades.

INGREDIENTS: castor seed oil, jojoba seed oil, mica, carnauba wax, candelilla wax, shea butter, orange peel oil, tocopherol, titanium dioxide, iron oxides, ultramarines, pigment violet

www.rjmineralcosmetics.com.au

Valana Minerals Sparkle Lips Vegan Lipstick

INGREDIENTS: cocoa butter, candelilla wax, castor oil, meadowfoam seed oil, avocado butter, macadamia nut oil, mica, titanium dioxide, iron oxide

www.valanaminerals.com

MASCARAS

Dr. Hauschka Skin Care Mascara

INGREDIENTS: water, pyrus cydonia seed extract, alcohol, saccharum officinarum (sugar cane) extract, sorbitol, mica, ricinus communis (castor) seed oil, acacia senegal gum, cetearyl alcohol, beeswax/cera flava, camellia sinensis leaf extract, melia azadirachta leaf extract, euphorbia cerifera (candelilla) wax, lysolecithin, euphrasia officinalis extract, silk/serica powder, hydrogenated jojoba oil, rosa damascena flower wax, rosa damascena flower oil, fragrance/parfum, citronellol, geraniol, linalool, hectorite, maltodextrin, ferric ferrocyanide/CI 77510, carmine/CI 75470, iron oxide/CI 77491, iron oxide/CI 77499, titanium dioxide/CI 77891, ultramarines/CI 77007

www.drhauschka.com

SKIN CLEANSERS/FACIALS

Mountain Girl Botanics Aspen Spa Soap

INGREDIENTS: saponified oils of olea europaea (olive, organic), cocos nucifera (coconut, organic), elaeis guinnesis (palm, organic), mel (honey), Persea gratissima (avocado, organic) oil, avena sativa (oatmeal, organic), lavandula officinalis (lavender, organic) flower, calendula officinalis (calendula, organic) flower, matricaria chamomilla (chamomile, organic) flower, rosemarinus officinalis (rosemary) extract, essential oils of pelargonium graveolens (geranium), eugenia caryophillata (clove bud, organic), juniperus communis (juniper berry), and pogostemon patchouli (patchouli)

www.mountaingirlbotanics.com

Pangea Organics Facial Cleanser, Egyptian Calendula & Blood Orange

INGREDIENTS: purified water, organic lavender alcohol, organic coconut oil, organic extra virgin olive oil, organic hemp seed oil, organic jojoba oil, caprylic/capric triglyceride derived from coconut oil, soy lecithin, natural vegetable glycerin, almond oil, organic rice bran extract, organic shea butter, organic argan oil and evening primrose, safflower seed oil, pumpkin seed oil, vitamins E and C

www.pangeaorganics.com

What Is Really in Your Lipstick?

Perfume—Cupid’s Arrow, or a Poison Dart?

Talcum Powder and Your Risk of Cancer