Heavy Metals & Its Growing Significance in Cosmetic Industry

Posted by Koel Colours on November 21st, 2017

The need for women to appear beautiful and desirable is universal and it has been the case since dawn of civilization. However, it is just not enough to buy and use various skincare and cosmetics products for that need. It is equally important for users of color cosmetics products to ensure stuffs they are using are made with skin friendly and safe ingredients. Along with companies making such grooming and skincare products, the buyers also need to be aware of importance of using skin friendly ingredient based products. This is applicable for literally any colors cosmetics stuffs that you use on your skin and hair, including makeup powder, hair color or lipsticks and eyeliner.

The Risk Factors You Need to Understand

Using OTC skincare and cosmetic products randomly is quite risky for you and the long term repercussion cannot be overlooked. Presence of heavy metals used in pigments in the colours cosmetics products can pose serious health risk to you in long run. While the damages to health may not be visible initially when they are detected it can be too late. Studies have revealed continuous usage of cosmetic dye and other cosmetic products laden with specific heavy metals can cause major diseases. Apart from dermatological disorders, you can get afflicted with ailments affecting eyes, scalp and internal organs of body. Some of these ingredients have proven carcinogenic properties.

Rise of Cosmetic and skincare products with safer ingredients

Owing to the risk posed by color cosmetics products containing heavy metals, consumer safety groups have become vocal about the need for using safer ingredients in such products. The role played by entities like FDA deserve applauds in this context. Ingredients like mercury,cadmiumand lead which were used a lot in making grooming products are no longer used by major companies belonging to this sector. The companies serving as suppliers of pigments for use in cosmetic dye and related products have taken note of this development. KoelColours has taken major initiatives in this regard.

The countries like Canada, Japan and China have deployed stringent legal measures for limiting usage of such heavy metals in making skincare and cosmetic products. The same is true of the USA where the FDA has made it near impossible for skincare giants to use such heavy metals in their product range. While Indian government is yet to adopt similar strict measures on usage of these substances in cosmetic stuffs, the cosmetics manufacturers in India have become aware. Contenders like KoelColours have already started using safer and organic pigments for use in their products.

What you should do as a consumer?

To be on safe side, you should be careful when shopping for color cosmetics products. Before buying any such product, spend some time in reading the product label and find out type and amount of pigments and chemical ingredients present in the product. You should also look out for any warning published on any of the ingredients. It would be better if you buy and use the cosmetic products made with safer natural pigments and herbal ingredients.