Is Your Makeup Poisoning You?

I have no idea what told me to look at the ingredients in my makeup this morning, but I pulled out my tube of Clinique Even Better makeup broad spectrum SPF 15 for evening and correcting and low and behold… Its active ingredient is an endocrine disruptor.

OCTINOXATE 5.9% – Octinoxate is a UV filter that can
be rapidly absorbed through the skin. It is sometimes also listed as Octyl Metoxycinnamate.
Octinoxate
is an endocrine disruptor that mimics estrogen and can disrupt thyroid function.
I have Thyroid disease, Hashimoto’s to be specific.

It filters UV-B rays only, not A. It dissolves …read more