MAKEUP PRODUCTS (NON-PERMANENT)

While the majority of chemicals in beauty products and cosmetics pose hardly any or no threat, dozens have been associated with considerable medical issues, including developmental delays and cancer. Cosmetic chemicals gain entry to a person's body through ingestion, inhalation, and internal use, and pose the same problems as food chemicals, per this site.

Chemicals linked to cancer are found in food and several other commonly used goods. Still, no classification of consumer goods is accountable to less government oversight than cosmetics and other personal products, including My first make-up - eyeshadow. While most of the chemicals in cosmetics probably pose minimal risk, exposure to some is linked to critical health problems, including cancer.