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12 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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In this short conversation, Mona Sharma and Aly Cohen discuss how the FDA approves cosmetic ingredients, often allowing them on the market until proven harmful. They highlight the risk of synthetic and potentially toxic chemicals in popular products, using the example of a teen's desire for a Hailey Bieber lip gloss that contains many chemicals. The dialogue then shifts to the concept of tracking personal exposure to these chemicals, considering daily, weekly, and monthly cumulative doses, emphasizing the hidden health impact of everyday cosmetic use.

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It is frightening, you know, when we think about the fda. I know for cosmetics, for example, when you're looking at ingredients and toxins, they'll approve these ingredients until they're proven to be harmful. Meaning, okay, let's get this out into the world. Let's find a celebrity to endorse it. And there's a bit of heat on this ingredient, but it hasn't been proven.
To be toxic yet.
So let's see what happens. And to your point about children, I have a girlfriend who was a teenager who wanted the new Hailey Bieber lip gloss. And it's full of chemicals.
If you sit and you survey your body and your home, you can start to get a picture.
Of how many.
Exposures, just exposures in a 24 hour period to.
Synthetic chemicals.
Perhaps toxic chemicals.
And how when.
You calculate.
A day's.
Exposure, a week's exposure, a month's exposure.
And so I added that up and.
It came up to almost a million exposures over the course of an average lifetime.