While industry and government officials debate the safety of nanotech, EWG analysts have already moved forward to identify 256 popular products where nanomaterials are listed as ingredients. Products include eye liner, moisturizer, bronzer, lip balm and sunscreen.
Take action now to urge the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to request that nanomaterials be clearly identified and assessed for safety before they are used in personal care products.
Why should you care? Nanomaterials are super-tiny manmade chemicals that may pose extraordinary and unpredictable risks to public health. The FDA is concerned about these micro-sized ingredients because their toxicity may be very different, and potentially more severe than normal-sized chemical ingredients.
The cosmetics industry is slowly adding more nanomaterials to personal care products, even though none of the nanomaterials found on product labels in Skin Deep have been assessed for safety.
Chemicals in your cosmetics = chemicals in you
Are you curious about the chemicals in your body? EWG, in partnership with Stanford University, is conducting a scientific study to test young women age 14-19 for chemicals found in many cosmetics and personal care products. If you're interested in participating, or know someone who might be, contact Becky Sutton at 866-222-7059 x304 to find out more about this study.
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