7 Ingredients You Should Be Avoiding in Beauty Products

1,4-Dioxane creates suds in personal care items like baby soaps, bubble bath products, liquid soaps, hair relaxers and shampoos.

1,4-Dioxane is in many cosmetics and personal care products, but it's not listed on labels. It's a contaminant that is formed when product ingredients combine.

Look instead for sodium laureth sulfate and PEG compounds, as well as ceteareth, oleth and xynol.

It enters through the skin. It causes irritation, organ-system toxicity. The EPA says it is likely a human carcinogen. The California’s Proposition 65 list indicates that it can is suspected to cause birth defects and cancer.

Infants, pregnant women and adolescents are at greatest risk.

The FDA doesn't require it to be listed on labels since it is created in the manufacturing process.

Cosmetics that are certified under the USDA National Organic Program do not contain 1,4-Dioxane.

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1,4-Dioxane
http://safecosmetics.org/article.php?id=288

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