{"id":16373,"date":"2021-08-31T16:47:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T20:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/?p=16373"},"modified":"2021-12-28T15:50:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T20:50:07","slug":"toxic-chemicals-found-in-many-cosmetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/toxic-chemicals-found-in-many-cosmetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxic Chemicals Found in Many Cosmetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16374\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16374\" style=\"width: 364px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16374 size-third_column\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/Cosmetics-PFAS-image-364x364.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/Cosmetics-PFAS-image-364x364.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/Cosmetics-PFAS-image-133x133.jpg 133w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/Cosmetics-PFAS-image-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/Cosmetics-PFAS-image-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/Cosmetics-PFAS-image-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/Cosmetics-PFAS-image-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/Cosmetics-PFAS-image.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image credit: Vladimirfloyd\/Adobe Stock Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acs.estlett.1c00240\">study<\/a> analyzed 231 cosmetic products purchased from retailers such as Ulta Beauty, Sephora, Target, and Bed Bath &#038; Beyond and screened them for fluorine, a proxy for the presence of PFAS. Three-quarters of waterproof mascara samples contained high fluorine concentrations, as did nearly two-thirds of foundations and liquid lipsticks, and more than half of the eye and lip products tested.<\/p>\n<p>The authors found that different categories of makeup tended to have higher or lower fluorine concentrations, with the highest fluorine levels found in products advertised as \u2018wear-resistant\u2019 or \u2018long-lasting\u2019. \u201cThe concerning thing about cosmetics is that these are products being applied to skin and face every day, resulting in a skin absorption route that\u2019s of concern, but also incidental ingestion of cosmetics is a concern as well,\u201d says study co-author Tom Bruton, PhD, senior scientist at the Green Science Policy Institute in Berkeley, CA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cThis study is very helpful for elucidating the PFAS content of different types of cosmetics in the U.S. and Canadian markets\u2026Previously, all the data had been collected in Europe, and this study shows we are dealing with similar problems in the North American marketplace,\u201d said Dr. Elsie Sunderland, STEEP scientist and professor of environmental chemistry at Harvard University, who was not part of the study. \u201cAt this point, there is very little regulatory activity related to PFAS in cosmetics\u2026The best thing to happen now would be for consumers to indicate that they prefer products without PFAS and to demand better transparency in product ingredient lists,\u201d Sunderland expands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/beauty\/news\/20210615\/toxic-chemicals-cosmetics\"><strong>Read full story<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study analyzing 231 cosmetic products found high fluorine levels in well over half of the products, raising concerns from scientists at the potential health risks and lack of product labeling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002,"featured_media":16374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pfas-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16386,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16373\/revisions\/16386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}