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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Episode Transcript
So, generally speaking, the FDA does not
require approval for use ofcosmetic ingredients or products
before they're used incosmetics.
Now, generally speaking,manufacturers are allowed to use
any ingredient that they want aslong as the ingredient and the
finished product are safe andthat the product is
appropriately labeled and theingredient does not actually
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render that cosmetic productadulterated or misbranded.
So that does that's the generaltheme we're looking at.
However, the FDA recentlyconducted a study that looked at
1,744 cosmetic productformulations.
They looked at these in the USand they apparently looked at
PFAs.
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And they were looking at whetherthese PFAs containing cosmetics
products, which represented only0.4% of the total products
registered in August 2024.
They looked at things likeeyeshadows, face and neck
products, uh eyeliners, face uhface powders, foundations, um,
and they looked at approximately56% of PFAs contained within
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these cosmetic products.
The most common one, PTFE orpolytetrafluoroethylene, is the
most commonly used one.
It appeared in 490 products, ofwhich 28.1% of them uh it
accounted for 28.1% of PFAcontaining cosmetics products.
They looked at a few others aswell.
There's a table, there's a 258uh page report.
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Um, the big takeaway is theylooked at things like exposures,
they looked at uh uh absorption,distribution, metabolism, um,
and other types of issues.
And what they found out was theycategorized it into three
separate uh results.
There was insufficient data forsafety conclusions, low safety
data saying that's a lowconcern, if you will, and then
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uh having high concerns.
And off the high concerns,perfluorohexalethylene,
triethyl, triethyl, triethoxycylene, that's I'm gonna
put that into words here.
Um, those were considered to bethe highest concern.
So watch out for moreinformation coming in.
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If your products contain that,look out for that.
Um it's gonna be an area ofhigher concern as we continue.
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