First Derm

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Social media significantly influences the popularity of retinol among young people, leading to increased experimentation without considering safety. There’s a crucial difference between cosmetic retinol use and medical treatment with retinoids ; the latter is for specific skin conditions under professional supervision.

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The Beauty Brains

MARCH 4, 2019

They also have advice from a body called the scientific committee for cosmetic safety or SCCS, which is composed largely of academics with an interest in medicine and general science. This is a simply enormous database of every cosmetic formulation on the market along with its pack copy. Smaller producers? Not so much.

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The Eco Well Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

I’m sure at this point you’ve seen the recent headlines about chemicals in your cosmetics, specifically phthalates, being linked to early death. Annoyingly, the phthalates in question aren’t actually relevant to cosmetics. Do you have to worry about phthalates in your cosmetic products? Predominate exposure is from food.

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