Pause 4 Prevention // Beauty Detox

When it comes to the products you put on your body, skin, or hair, one thing’s for sure: most companies that makes those products don’t have your back. Heather White, Executive Director of the Environmental Working Group, explains why our lotions, makeup, and shampoos are loaded with dangerous chemicals, why babies are born with hundreds…

PAUSE FOR PREVENTION // Toxins, Toxins Everywhere

Did you know the average woman wears 515 chemicals a day? 5-1-5. What?! Of the 82,000 ingredients found in beauty products, one in eight is an industrial chemical. Our skin absorbs 60 percent of any topical product we use, which often contain chemicals linked to cancer or hormone disruption.

Advertisers spent an astonishing $144 billion in 2011 to entice shoppers to buy more and more stuff, and there is shockingly little regulation on how they are able to label their products, and what toxic chemicals go in them.

Pause 4 Prevention // Is Your Makeup Bag Toxic?

Morning routine: Wake up. Take a shower. Do your hair. Smear some lead and formaldehyde on your face. Wait what?? Yup. Your makeup and beauty products might contain some really gross ingredients that you don’t know about, including chemicals and toxins linked to an increased breast cancer risk. Even products labeled “natural” or “organic” may…