Cosmetic ingredients the FDA doesn’t want you to use

A brief discussion on the various cosmetic ingredients used by cosmetic manufacturers and the concerns FDA has recently found as a result of their own study into the process

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So, generally speaking, the FDA does not require approval for use of cosmetic ingredients or products before they're used in cosmetics. Now, generally speaking, manufacturers are allowed to use any ingredient that they want as long as the ingredient and the finished product are safe and that the product is appropriately labeled and the ingredient does not actually render that cosmetic product adulterated or misbranded. So that does that's the general theme we're looking at. However, the FDA recently conducted a study that looked at 1,744 cosmetic product formulations. They looked at these in the US and they apparently looked at PFAs. And they were looking at whether these PFAs containing cosmetics products, which represented only 0.4% of the total products registered in August 2024. They looked at things like eyeshadows, face and neck products, uh eyeliners, face uh face powders, foundations, um, and they looked at approximately 56% of PFAs contained within these cosmetic products. The most common one, PTFE or polytetrafluoroethylene, is the most commonly used one. It appeared in 490 products, of which 28.1% of them uh it accounted for 28.1% of PFA containing cosmetics products. They looked at a few others as well. There's a table, there's a 258 uh page report. Um, the big takeaway is they looked at things like exposures, they looked at uh uh absorption, distribution, metabolism, um, and other types of issues. And what they found out was they categorized it into three separate uh results. There was insufficient data for safety conclusions, low safety data saying that's a low concern, if you will, and then uh having high concerns. And off the high concerns, perfluorohexalethylene, triethyl, triethyl, tri ethoxycylene, that's I'm gonna put that into words here. Um, those were considered to be the highest concern. So watch out for more information coming in. If your products contain that, look out for that. Um it's gonna be an area of higher concern as we continue. If you have questions, follow Darshan talks.