My go-to App for food and beauty ingredients

Education is key

Helping to demystify what’s in your beauty products and food.

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〰️ Do you look at the ingredients on your skincare? On your food? What you put in and on your body has a huge effect on your health. The average female uses 12 personal care products a day containing around 168 different ingredients*
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The beauty industry is sadly not regulated meaning that there is no legally required premarket health testing for cosmetics before they are launched. Chemicals are therefore used in beauty and personal care products on the presumption they are safe unless proven otherwise. Australia follows America and has only banned around 10 chemicals in the last 40 years whereas Europe has banned over 1300 in the last 15. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

6 years ago I decided to remove sugar from my diet for a month and after reading the labels I was horrified by how many products it snuck into, including Tuna! I began reading the labels of anything I was about to buy and almost always, I couldn’t pronounce or understand half the ingredients. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

A great app that massively helped me is called CHEMICALMAZE. It’s fairly simple to use and works for both food and cosmetic ingredients. I would highly recommend this app to make yourself aware of what’s in your cleanser, toothpaste, almond milk, nail polish, ice cream etc.

It costs $10.99 but is well worth the investment. It’s very easy to navigate and understand, with simple rating codes (smiley, neutral and sad faces) for each additive which allows you to identify the risk levels of each ingredient. You can also filter by symptoms such as products that can cause asthma or headaches & migraines. You can also filter by Vegan or Celiac to ensure what you can’t, or choose not to eat, isn’t also making it’s way into your cosmetics products.

Available here for Apple users.

Available here for Android users.

*Source = Environmental Working Group, Ewg.org⠀