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Should You Be Worried About Formaldehyde In Your Face Cream?
In short: no.
There are a truly impressive number of beauty products in this world. Not only are there dozens — if not hundreds — of different brands, but each general type of product can break down into a dozen iterations. Moisturizer is broad, but then you’ve got under-eye moisturizer, hand lotion, and on and on. No wonder it’s a massive international market.
And, according to recent headlines, these products are not just making us more beautiful. They may also be giving us cancer — well, some of them at least. Yes, according to headlines, many beauty products, particularly those used by Black and Latina women, contain cancer-causing chemicals.
Fortunately for all of us who like to moisturize, the data is not nearly as worrying as the headlines imply. There’s no need to throw out all of your beauty products just yet.
Let’s look at the science.
The Science
The new study that’s come out looking at beauty products was based on a survey study whereby Black and Latina women living in South Los Angeles were asked to log their product use in an app each day. The authors asked the women to take photos of the product labels of the various things they were using — creams, make-up, etc — and log it all daily…
