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You can search for ingredients and compare them to different products on the market. Now also including products, it helps you “choose products and foods that are free of toxic ingredients, safe for your children and environmentally friendly”. The EWG created their Skin Deep Database as a resource on the safety of cosmetic ingredients. “provides information on personal care product ingredients from the published scientific literature, to supplement incomplete data available from companies and the government”. Created in the early 90s in response to poor regulation of cosmetic ingredients in the US, the EWG One well-promoted source of ingredient information is US non-profit EWG. You need to browse through the alphabetical list, rather than searching.ĮNVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP (EWG) SKIN DEEP DATABASE

This gives a short description and simple rating. It outlines what the ingredient is, what it is used for in cosmetic products, includes safety info according to both EU and US and lists it’s resources.Īnother good online source of information in plain language is the ingredient dictionary on Paula’s Choice. My favourite online source of general ingredient information is the Personal Care Products Council’s website. It is often a bit of a detective hunt to figure out what an ingredient is, what it is used for and any potential health or environmental issues it may have associated with it. Unfortunately there isn’t a single source of information to research cosmetic ingredients in Australia. But where can you learn about what ingredients actually are and any potential issues with them? So now you know whether your product lists all the ingredients on the label, and what ingredient naming convention it uses.

In the third post I talk about the confusion caused by the several different naming conventions for ingredients so you can learn to make accurate comparisons between products.

The second post is about regulation in Australia and how some products do not need to list all the ingredients on the label.

In the first post I talked about the importance of making sure you’re informed so you can make the best choices for your family.

So you can make informed choices for yourself and your family and manage your exposure to toxic chemicals. This is the fourth post in a series on ingredients in body care products in Australia where I give you some resources to research ingredients in the products you use on your body. How To Find Out What You’re Putting On Your Body