Danger: Check Your Cosmetics!

I saw the movie "America The Beautiful" last night as part of the AFI Dallas film festival. It was a world premier (i.e. never been seen before) and sold out.

The movie was a documentary that asks the question: Is America Obsessed With Beauty? I'll have more of a review in a later blog posting but I wanted to alert you to one thing that I learned in the movie (and later researched and found it to be absolutely true): The US Government allows cosmetic products that contain cancer causing ingredients, potential neuro-, liver-, and immunotoxins; and suspected hormone disruptors that could cause birth defects children.

Not only that, but these ingredients are found in varying quantities in probably nearly all of the cosmetics, lotions and sprays that you currently use.

You can read more about this here: The Ugly Side Of Cosmetics. I highly recommend checking your products against the database provided in the article to consider which of your cosmetics should be replaced.