M2.2 Blog: Personal Care Products


For my personal care product breakdown I chose to look more closely at my shaving cream and my face lotion. I wanted to pick personal products I use a majority of the week. Going in to the search of what is included in these products I was expecting a serious health hazard to be located based on what I had been reading. I was pleasantly surprised, in fact, relieved to know that at least one of the products I was using was generally safe. Almost every ingredient for both products contained some sort of evidence to support an allergy or toxicity and this was concerning. 

The lotion I use, Aveeno, contained generally safe ingredients. There was one ingredient that got a moderate warning at level 5. This ingredient is Benzyl Alcohol. This serves as a preservative and is also naturally occurring. Allery/immunotoxicity is the main concern for this ingredient.

For my Edge Shaving Cream, one ingredient registered as highly unsafe. It had a ranking of 7 on the unsafe scale. The main culprit was Isobutane. Isobutane is the propellent used to help spray out the gel for shaving. Allergy/immunotoxicity is the main issue for this ingredient. Additional information on Edge shaving gel can be found in my video above.

I think this information is great to have. However, I don’t think the FDA (or whoever is responsible) make it readily available or easily attainable. I think the public has a right to know what they are using and what is included in the items. I also believe that if the public actually knew then a lot of people would be scared. Industries would change and the food business may be disrupted. Information should be made available and access should be easy, no doubt. As a result of these findings with my personal products, I will most likely change up my shaving gel. I will look into a more natural soap based brush on product.

Comments

  1. Sandy TanSeptember 8, 2018 at 10:40 AM

    Hi Dan,
    I agree that everyone has the right to know about the harmful ingredients in their personal care products. If there there is a great demand from people to products that are certified by the EWG that it is safe, I think industries will start revise their formulas to meet customers' demand.

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  2. Hugo FGSeptember 9, 2018 at 8:47 PM

    Hey Dan,
    That's nice that your products were generally safe. One of my products didn't do so well. Ideally, no products would have any harmful components. I definitely agree that this information should be more accessible to the consumers so that we can make more conscious choices when purchasing these personal products.

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