[INGREDIENT DATA] Top tips for safer products 02 - For teens and tweens

Tips for teens and tweens

Teens use cosmetics. Sometimes lots of them. From hair gels and straighteners to eye makeup, body wash and lotions. And then some! Knowing which ones are healthy – and which ones aren’t – is important.

Here’s why: EWG found that adolescent girls’ bodies are contaminated with chemicals commonly used in cosmetics and body care products. In fact, we detected 16 potentially toxic chemicals – phthalates, triclosan, parabens, and musks – in blood and urine samples from 20 teen girls. Studies these chemicals to potential health effects, including hormone disruption.


To make matters worse, teens may be particularly sensitive to exposure to hormone-disrupting chemicals, given the complex role they play during puberty, precisely when girls typically experiment with an increasing number and variety of body care products. In fact, when we surveyed them, our teen study participants reported using an average of 17 personal care products each day, 40 percent more than an adult woman.

Teens can easily make safer choices by reducing the number of body care products they use, viewing marketing claims with skepticism, always checking the ingredients (a good lifelong habit!) and following EWG guidelines to select safer products:

- Contents Source from EWG's Skin Deep