Lose the Make-up, Lose the Weight?
Here's another reason to simplify your beauty routine... check out this creepy study that claims women who use make-up daily absorb 5 pounds of chemicals into their body yearly- ugh. The article also urges consumers to question what they are putting on their skin, since we still don't know if they are all safe, especially when mixed with chemicals from other products.
Still can't abandon your drawers of lipsticks, mascaras, foundations and blushes? Then at least cut back on how many you have to use with these multi-purpose products.
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Yuck, yuck, yuck! 5 pounds? How can that possibly be right?
Posted by: WhyMommy | July 23, 2007 at 09:51 PM
Actually, if you read the Telegraph article closely, it doesn't say where that "fact" comes from. A quick google search shows other articles referencing it -- but as far as I can tell, they all quote the Telegraph.
Notice the words they use, "it is claimed." They don't say where, or when, or by who, or who funded the study.
The biochemist that they quote is also an advocate of organic products. Not exactly an unbiased source.
I'd take this "fact" with a grain of salt.
Posted by: WhyMommy | July 23, 2007 at 10:06 PM