Seattle Ladies Lotto met at art gallery-cum-bar McCleod Residence last Wednesday to hear a guest lecture from the lovely Kristen McCormick, Queen Bee of Ms. Beehave natural body care company! Some fascinating factoids from Kristen's show and tell:
- The average person uses 10-15 skin care products per day with 126 unique ingredients
- 98% of all products contain one or more ingredients never publicly assessed for safety
- 750 products are currently in violation of industry standards
- 82,000 chemicals registered for personal care products include carcinogens, pesticides and toxins
- There are no FDA regulations for ingredients
- The Cosmetics Database contains information an online assessments on nearly 30,000 consumer products.
- AHA (ALPHA HYDROXY ACID)
- ACETAMIDE MEA
- ALKYL-PHENOL-ETHOXYLADES
- AMMONIUM LAURETH SULPHATE
- ALUMINUM
- ALCOHOL
- BENTONITE
- BENZENE
- COAL TAR
- COCOMIDE DEA
- COCOMIDOPROPYL BETAINE
- CARBOMER
- DEA (DIETHANOLAMINE)
- DIOFORM
- DIMETHYLAMINE
- HYDANTOIN DMDM
- FDC-n
- FLUORIDE
- FORMALDEHYDE
- GLYCOLS
- IMIDAZOLIDYNL UREA
- LAURAMIDE DEA
- METHYLCHLOROISOTHIAZOLINONE
- MINERAL OIL
- PABA
- PEG (PETROLEUM)
- PROPYLENE GLYCOL AND BUTYLENE GLYCOL
- POLYQUATERNIUM
- SODIUM LAURETH SULFATE
- SODIUM CYANIDE
- SODIUM HYDROXIDE
- SODIUM OLETH SULFATE
- STYRENE POLYMER
- STEARAMIDOPROPYL TETRASODIUM
- TALC
- TOLUENE
- TRIETHANOLAMINE
L to R: Kim Jung, Robin Fair, Kiernan Boike, Emily Griffin, Sarah Hunt, Christina Collins, Kristen McCormick
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