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EWG is the Deep Throat of the Personal Care Industry with its Launch of Skin Deep 3.0

May 15, 2007 By: Anna8 Comments

I happened to be on the Environmental Working Group’s website checking my facts on an upcoming story about used furniture, when I noticed a press release today about the launching of EWG’s Skin Deep website with updated safety information for more than 25,000 personal care products. According to EWG, personal care products are not monitored for safety by the federal government. Their press release further states that only thirteen percent of the 10,500 ingredients in personal care products have been tested for their safety by the cosmetic industry review panel. Basically, companies can put anything in their products including mercury, lead, or placenta extract.

The new update version of EWG’s original Skin Deep site called Skin Deep 3.0 has been improved allowing the consumer to be able to shop based upon certain criteria that they wish to include in or exclude from their care products. You can designate if you want products that are organic, signed the Compact for Safe Cosmetics, and/or do not list fragrance in their ingredients. In addition, you can exclude a number of products that can cause certain conditions such as cancer, endocrine disruption, and allergies just to name a few.  Also, the search engine allows you to exclude products that have been tested on animals.

I looked up one of the listing, Johnson and Johnson baby shampoo which is suppose to be a mild shampoo. According to the listing, this shampoo is linked to numerous health issues including cancer, developmental reproductive toxicity, allergies, and organ system toxicity!

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  1. Anonymous says:
    May 15, 2007 at 9:36 pm

    EWG is the Deep Throat of The Personal Care Industry…

    Enviromental Working Group launched Skin Deep 3.0, a new update version of its orginal Skin Deep databased. This updated version lists about 25,000 personal care products in its database. It allows the consumer to pick the criteria of what is acceptab…

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    July 29, 2008 at 2:51 am

    […] by companies that adhere to or exceed the European Union’s formulation standards, and the Skin Deep database, which provide detail information about the toxicity of 30,000 plus […]

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    May 20, 2009 at 8:04 pm

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    February 2, 2010 at 3:01 pm

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    February 18, 2010 at 9:40 pm

    […] provided the Company provides  me with all the ingredients (and hidden byproducts) by using the Skin Deep Database, but I am still left with the question, does the organic make-up that I choose […]

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