7 Common American Beauty Ingredients That Are Banned in Other Countries
If there’s one thing beauty lovers know (and, who are we kidding?beauty lovers know approximately everything), it’s that there are huge (like, Grand-Canyon-levels huge) discrepancies between American beauty products and foreign beauty products?specifically, the vast number of ingredients allowed in US formulations compared to the incredibly restricted formulations of beauty products overseas. And when it comes to cosmetic ingredients here, quality is definitely not favored over quantity, especially when we tell you that Americans are currently slathering thousands of chemicals onto their bodies every single day that are totally and completely unregulated. Yup.
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Of course, when compared to the US, it may seem like other countries have gone a little overboard in their regulations. The European Union (EU), for example, has banned or restricted over 1,300 chemicals, many of which would never even appear in beauty products (jet fuel, anyone"), but even still, the US has only banned 11. It?s not that the US is slacking off per se, but unless a cosmetic contains an ingredient classified as a ?drug? by the FDA, the product doesn?t need FDA approval before hitting the market. It?s up to the manufacturer to determine a product’s safety (which sounds as sketchy as it is). Photo: ImaxTree
What it really boils down to is a straight-up difference in strategy. The EU is more into taking preventative measures, so ev...
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