The Magazine Blacklist Que Choisir has something to fear.
It identifies cosmetic products that contain ingredients that are harmful to health.
No less than 400 beauty and hygiene products have in their composition ingredients hazardous to health.
In this long list, some are particularly harmful because they combine several dangerous molecules...
...or worse because they are intended for vulnerable audiences such as pregnant women, babies and children.
One would think that the manufacturers avoid endangering the vulnerable population and well not at all! Watch:
We are sometimes very far from this objective. Some manufacturers continue to sell products intended for babies or children containing MIT.
What is MIT? Methylisothiazolinone is a recognized allergen that has distinguished itself by receiving the "Allergen of the Year 2013" award.
Nice to think about children by making them allergic, right?
Alas, that's not all...
On the shelves of supermarkets and pharmacies, there are also products containing endocrine disruptors.
Guess who their target is? The so-called sensitive populations precisely!
Without further ado, here are the 10 products with toxic ingredients that you should never buy again :
Activilong's ultra-smoothing junior magic spray contains ethylhexyl methoxycinnamate, cyclopentasiloxane and BHT.
It's the magic formula to put 3 endocrine disruptors in a single product.
Great performance!
And unfortunately, we cannot trust the reassuring mentions "paraben-free" or even "with organic sweet almond" which appear on the packaging.
In the viewfinder of Que Choisir , also features the Avène cold cream that parents know well to apply to the skin of their babies and children.
Bad news, this cream may leave the skin soft, but it also leaves an endocrine disruptor and phenoxyethanol.
This last ingredient is considered toxic for the little ones by the National Medicines Safety Agency.
Also on the dock is the Dexeryl cream which contains propylparaben.
In this regard, the Pierre Fabre laboratories explain that this cream is not a cosmetic product, but a medicine.
This drug is supposedly "indicated in the adjunctive treatment of dry skin states of certain dermatoses such as atopic dermatitis, ichthyotic states and psoriasis.
Apart from these authorized medical indications, the use of the drug is not recommended, since the laboratory, having not carried out clinical studies, cannot guarantee either the efficacy or the safety of the drug."
It is the laboratory itself that says it:it is better to avoid it to moisturize the skin or protect the baby's bottom from irritation!
For baby's skin, nothing beats the liniment you can make yourself by following this simple recipe.
Pregnant women are not spared either. Indeed, they should avoid Elancyl's stretch mark prevention cream.
Why ? Because it contains cyclopentasiloxane, not recommended during pregnancy.
Instead of applying this chemical cocktail to the skin, we recommend this natural treatment against stretch marks.
Some products make it even stronger because they contain 4-5 unwanted ingredients.
A hell of a cocktail that is very harmful to your health!
In this category, we find the Eau Précieuse purifying gel, intended for teenagers.
In this anti-pimple formula, there are 2 endocrine disruptors and 2 allergens:MIT and MICT.
To fight against acne, nothing beats a homemade product!
We recommend these 11 effective natural recipes against acne instead.
And it is not because you buy your product at a pharmacy or parapharmacy at a high price that you are guaranteed to have products that respect your health. The proof with the Klorane brand. Indeed, Klorane's soap-free nourishing shower gel is no better. It also contains endocrine disruptors.
Aussi' Miracle Intensive Care boasts of repairing your hair and giving it shine and suppleness.
But the real tour de force that this hair treatment achieves is to combine 2 allergens (MIT and MICT) and 2 endocrine disruptors.
Yves Rocher's sun spray also breaks records with 4 endocrine disruptors in its ingredients.
The whole family will enjoy it during the holidays...
If you're looking for 100% natural sun protection for the whole family, try this homemade recipe instead.
And Carrefour intimate wipes are supposed to bring daily freshness to our intimate hygiene. But that's not all. The sodium lauryl sulphate they contain has the particularity of being... irritating! Not very nice, right?
Finally, the last of this "top 10" is not a product, but a category:I named hair dyes.
Indeed, you must also be wary of hair dyes which often contain allergens such as MIT, MCIT and p-phenylenediamine.
Nothing illegal, however, since these ingredients are only prohibited in cosmetic products that are not rinsed out.
But admit that the exposure time of a color gives them plenty of time to penetrate the epidermis. You be the judge!
