Clean beauty ignores the very basics of ingredient safety. Here's how it gets everything wrong, and how safety assessments actually work (hot tip: they're being done correctly already). Featuring an actual real-life toxicologist (not a fake clean beauty one).
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In this video:
🧼 What is clean beauty?
🧼 There's no such thing as clean and dirty ingredients
🧼 Hazard vs risk
🧼 How scientists ACTUALLY work out risk
🧼 Parabens: personally victimised by clean beauty
🧼 Why take any risk at all?
🧼 How did we get here, and how do we get out?
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Thanks to Dr Fred Lebreux for being so generous with his time and expertise - more from him here:
Basic Principles of Toxicology in Cosmetics: https://youtu.be/HLycA1aIGBg
How to Do a Safety Assessment: https://youtu.be/CvFX-xyUO_c
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