MAKEUP PRODUCTS (NON-PERMANENT)

While most chemicals in cosmetics pose slight or no risk, dozens are associated with significant health problems, including cancer, and neurological harm. Chemicals in cosmetics gain entry to a person's body through inhalation, ingestion, and the skin, and cause the same dangers as food chemicals, per this site.

Contaminants and chemicals linked to cancer can be found in food and many other everyday items. Still, no kind of consumer items is subject to less government inspection than cosmetics and other personal care products, including Eye pencil. While many of the chemicals in cosmetics likely pose very little risk, exposure to some is linked to critical health problems, such as cancer.