Top 20 ingredients you should avoid in cosmetics at all costs.

Top 20 Toxic ingredients which you should be avoiding at all costs.


1. Mercury Known human carcinogen.


2. Lead Acetate Known human carcinogen.


3. Formaldehyde Known human carcinogen


4. Toluene Reproductive/developmental toxin


5. Petroleum Distillates Possible human carcinogen


6. Ethylacrylate Possible human carcinogen


7. Coal Tar Known human carcinogen


8. Dibutyl Phthalate Reproductive/developmental toxin


9. Potassium Dichromate Possible human carcinogen


10. 2-Bromo-2-Nitropropane-1,3-Diol Forms carcinogens if mixed with nitrosating agents


11. Selenium Sulfide Possible human carcinogen.


12. Dimethylamine Respiratory toxicity hazards.


13. Zirconium Silicate Banned for use in cosmetics.


14. Acrylamide Possible human carcinogen.


15. Phenylphenol Possible human carcinogen.


16. DC Blue 6 Banned for use in cosmetics.


17. EXT DC Green 1 Banned for use in cosmetics.


18. EXT DC Red 1 Banned for use in cosmetics.


19. EXT DC Red 3 Banned for use in cosmetics.


20. Hexachlorophene Limited evidence of cancer.