Ingredients's safety is issue.
Recently, Ingredient's safety is a controversial issue in food, cosmetic, medicine.
So, People more and more take interest in health and safety.
Smart customer who study ingredients before buy are increasing.
There is an organization that give reference information.
EWG provide information about cosmetic ingredients.
It is EWG that not-profit Environment Group in USA.
EWG's Skin Deep provide information about 'cosmetic ingredients'.
In EWG's Skin Deep, you can find safety of ingredient through grade and data.
EWG's Skin Deep
1) Grade
d
0 ~ 2 green grade : safe(low hazard)
3 ~ 6 yellow grade : moderate hazard)
7 ~ 10 red grade : high hazard)
2) Data amount
d
None : zero data
Limited : a little data
Fair : appropriate data
Good : many data
Robust : so many data
But do not have blind faith in EWG grade.
EWG also gives green grade(0~2) to some ingredients that have zero or limited data.
And Ingredients that receive yellow or red grade have its standards content.
So if cosmetic are produced according to standards content, they don't cause trouble.
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EWG‘s Skin Deep provide customer with useful information.
But It is not good to believe blindly EWG grade.
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