Now for makeup!!! The Beautycounter Cosmetics Collection is unprecedented in the industry with its union of high performance and unparalleled safety. See how beautiful, sophisticated and empowering CLEAN makeup can be! Let’s talk for a second about heavy metals. For the most part, cosmetics companies are not intentionally using heavy metals in their products. However, heavy metals are frequently found in makeup because they contaminate the colorants that companies use – whether they are natural ingredients that come from the earth, or synthetic. Heavy metals are harmful to humans and the effects of exposure can include lowered IQ, neurological effects, cancer, headaches, and kidney, lung and heart damage. Because the FDA has issued no limits for heavy metals as contaminants, cosmetic companies do not have to test for heavy metals or declare them on ingredient labels.We always strive to achieve undetectable levels of heavy metals in our products. “Undetectable levels” range from 0.5 to 5 parts per million, depending on the metal. Sometimes, “undetectable” is not possible for every metal in every formula; for this reason, we have established very low allowable background levels for each metal. You would be so incredibly shocked by the results of our 3rd-party lab that tested 12 ‘popular’ cosmetics for heavy metals. In fact, the lab was so shocked they had to run the test over again! Some of these cosmetics contained 240 parts per million (ppm) of toxic metals – at Beautycounter, we test every production batch of EVERY color EVERY time we produce it (since heavy metal contamination could change from batch to batch)
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 01:19:50 +0000
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