Hunt-and-peck the ingredient's name into Environmental Working Group's Cosmetic Safety Database (it's called "Cosmetic", but it's all personal-care products, not just makeup). For many ingredients, the results are not pretty.
Body burden. Toxic trespass. Chemical contamination. What does it all mean?Each of these phrases refers to the load of synthetic chemicals that each human being on this planet carries. Yes, even you. Not even people...
After the Exxon-Valdez disaster, a law was passed requiring oil tankers to have double hulls. That didn't help the wildlife in San Francisco Bay and as far north as Point Reyes when a Korean ship...