Start somewhere and expand your efforts to reduce your use of toxin-containing cosmetics and personal care products.
Long-term treatment with bee venom-containing cosmetics could be safe, because the irritation potential of bee venom is negligible.
However, there has been little research into the antiwrinkle effects of bee venom-containing cosmetics in humans.
This is the first clinical study to determine the effects of bee venom-containing cosmetics on facial wrinkles in human skin.
We therefore cannot exclude that a few individuals exposed to both skin trauma and certain mineral-oil-containing cosmetics may develop arthritis, but this is unlikely to be a common event.
The study was performed against the background that occupational exposure to mineral oil has recently been shown to be associated with an increased risk for RA in man, and that injection of or percutaneous exposure to mineral-oil-containing cosmetics can induce arthritis in certain rat strains.
The chemicals contained in cosmetics can irritate your skin and worsen your acne.
The decision also banned the import of cosmetics containing ingredients that have been animal-tested in this way.
The production or importation of cosmetics containing microbeads should immediately be halted in order to protect vulnerable marine life, a Senate inquiry has recommended.
The companies demanded more study and said that the change would be expensive and that the risk of children's dying from cosmetics containing hydrocarbons was very remote.
BRUSSELS — European Union regulators announced a ban Monday on the import and sale of cosmetics containing ingredients tested on animals and to pledge more efforts to push other parts of the world, like China, to accept alternatives.
