How Safe Are Your Cosmetics? | Environmental Working Group

The patchy state of cosmetics regulation, why it’s so important to know what goes into the products you use everyday! – Mercury in mascara? Lead in lipstick?  Scientific studies have shown that many common personal care products contain dangerous chemicals.  EWG’s Skin Deep Cosmetics Database evaluates nearly 80,000 personal care products and close to 10,000 [...]

Beware creative food labels from non-existent places – Which?

When the ‘farm’ you’re buying from doesn’t really exist! Why knowing who makes the products you’re buying (and what’s really in the ingredients!) is so important. – Manufacturers and supermarkets are increasingly using creative language to sell their products – even if it means creating place names that don’t exist. Marks & Spencer sells 11,000 [...]