Green Science: Green beauty

by: Janna Palliser

The ingredient lists of your shampoo, makeup, and moisturizer are likely to include a dizzying number of unknown ingredients. What these ingredients are and do is a mystery to most consumers. However, many cosmetics contain ingredients that are linked to health problems and environmental concerns. While examining every ingredient in your beauty products would take a lot of research and time, there are a few ingredients that should be singled out because of their potentially harmful qualities.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 12/1/2010Stock # ss10_034_04_8Volume 034Issue 04

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