7 Ingredients You Should Be Avoiding in Beauty Products

Formaldehyde and formaldehyde-releasing preservatives (FRPs) are found in shampoos and liquid baby soaps. It's found in hair products like gel and smoothing products. It's in nail polish and glues. Body washes and soaps, and color cosmetics contain formaldehyde and FRPs.

They are used to prevent the growth of bacteria but are absorbed by the skin and may cause cancer and allergic skin reactions. Formaldehyde is considered a human carcinogen.

Most at risk are babies and workers in salons and nail salons.

Formaldehyde may not be listed on a label. But you can avoid quaternium-15, dimethyl-dimethyl (DMDM) hydantoin, imidazolidinyl urea, diazolidinyl urea, sodium hydroxymethylglycinate, 2-bromo-2-nitropropane-1,3-diol (bromopol).

Make sure your nail products say "formaldehyde-free" or "toxic-trio-free" which means they don't contain DBP, formaldehyde and toluene.

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Formaldehyde And Formaldehyde-Releasing Preservatives
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