Cosmetic chemists know that these compounds are essentially identical with minimal differences. For example, they have listings for both Sodium Coceth Sulfate and Sodium Laureth Sulfate. Nonsense ratingsĬreating a hazard score is a dubious activity anyway (since it is the dose that makes the poison) but they aren’t even consistent within their own scoring system. And they don’t care to fix it because this has been pointed out to them directly. If they had a cosmetic chemist review the information they were putting up before entering it into the database, perhaps this wouldn’t be a problem. How they managed to come up with a toxicity score and links to studies about a non-existent chemical is baffling and it certainly doesn’t build faith in the reliability of their data. Unfortunately, there is no chemical called polyparaben. They even give it a chemical rating and call it an endocrine disruptor. For example, they have a listing for Polyparaben. There is false information in the database but they don’t seem interested in fixing it. There are a few obvious flaws in the database that have been pointed out to the EWG but they don’t seem interested in changing them.
SKIN DEEP DATABASE FULL
Unfortunately, it is full of misleading information & many things that are just wrong. It’s an interesting concept and they’ve clearly put a lot of work into it.
SKIN DEEP DATABASE SKIN
The primary place that consumers (and beauty bloggers) find out about the EWG is through their online ingredient resource called the Skin Deep database. They don’t think very much of cosmetic chemists or formulators. They seem to believe that there are cosmetic chemists who want to create formulas that will poison their families and cause widespread cases of cancer. And cosmetic chemists can not be trusted to create safe formulas. From their perspective cosmetics are not safe. The EWG & CFSC are unnecessary.īut I’m certain that the good folks at these groups would disagree.
However, cosmetic chemists, formulators and the cosmetic industry already support this goal so the cosmetic products we produce are already safe. Ostensibly, they are consumer advocacy groups who endeavor to ensure that cosmetic manufacturers produce only safe products.Ī laudable goal and one that all cosmetic chemists can get behind. The EWG focuses on providing information while the CFSC attempts to get legislation passed. If you work in the cosmetic industry, then you should know about the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and their off-shoot group the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. The EWG has changed some aspects of their Skin Deep Database which prompted the writing of this fresh look at why the EWG Skin Deep Database is a dubious resource.**** **NOTE: This post was written in 2012 and at the time was accurate.
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