People these days, particularly the women, are sure to be looking for alternatives to the usual stuff they would need for beauty and skin care to store in their medicine cabinets. While checking out the contents and ingredients made to produce various cosmetic products such as lipstick and nail polish is a good manner to control these things, it simply remains that you need further information to avoid the toxins and chemicals that such products provide.

Fortunately, there are some groups that can help you in determining the level of toxic content (if any) and the products you should endorse and check out.

Luckily, Web sites such as the Environmental Working Group’s cosmetic safety database Skin Deep and PristinePlanet.com have done much of the work for you. On Skin Deep, the Environmental Working Group has compiled information on ingredients in thousands of personal-care products and matched them against data in more than 50 toxicity and regulatory databases. Based on the results, each product is given its own “hazard” score. Pristine Planet, which grew its traffic from 50,000 to 100,000 shoppers over the past year, lets consumers browse, compare and review sustainable companies’ products, including price points, says Catherine Finn, owner and co-founder.

(Source) Forbes