MAKEUP PRODUCTS (NON-PERMANENT)

While many chemicals in beauty products and cosmetics pose slight or zero threat, several dozen have been associated with severe medical issues, including neurological harm and cancer. Chemicals in cosmetics get into your body through the skin, inhalation, ingestion and internal use, and lead to similar risks as food chemicals, per this site.

Contaminants and chemicals associated with cancer are found in food and several other common items. However, no category of consumer items is accountable to less government management than cosmetics, including Burt's Bees Lip Shine. Though most of the chemicals and contaminants in cosmetics in all likelihood pose very little risk, subjection to a few is associated with critical health issues, such as cancer.