I believe many people have had the following feelings:At a wide variety of each brand counter beautiful ornaments, compact, lipstick, cream, only feel dazzling, wish all things will look into your own shopping bag, and then a wipe on herself, wanted the white skin, acne is gone overnight, wrinkles light, in a nutshell from day to day more beautiful.
However, along with the increase of brand products in the market, many negative news has come lightly, which makes consumers pay more attention to the safety of cosmetics.In fact, harmful substances not only from the makeup of the cosmetics formula, a substandard packaging materials will also cause unavoidable harm to the safety of cosmetics.
So those who can affect the toxic and harmful substance of cosmetic safety come from where?
First, it is the additive in the packaging. There are many kinds of additives, and the most common ones are
1.Filler (change the hardness, wear resistance and dimensional stability of plastic, commonly used gypsum, metal powder, paper and wood, etc.)
2.Plasticizer (to enhance the softness, elasticity and fluidity of plastics, commonly used phthalic acid, epoxy compounds, etc.)
3.Stabilizer (prevent aging, degradation, commonly used aromatic amine, etc.)
4.colorant
These additives plus the plastic itself after the degradation of the monomer in full contact with cosmetics will migrate into the cosmetics, and then buried hidden dangers to human health.
Second, the content of heavy metals in the packaging
Heavy metals can cause great damage to human health when ingested too much.Too much lead, for example, can interfere with heme synthesis, affecting intellectual development and the reproductive system;Chronic exposure to excessive chromium compounds may cause contact dermatitis and eczema.Mercury affects the central nervous system.If the packaging material comes into contact with cosmetics, especially weak acid products, it will slowly enter the cosmetics and then be absorbed by the skin.Not only that, when the packaging is discarded, the heavy metals contained in it will slowly seep into the soil or water, causing extremely deadly damage to our environment.If we can establish the standard of heavy metal content in cosmetic packaging materials, it will be a great improvement to the safety of cosmetics, but also to make a contribution to our society and our environment.Therefore, the research and detection of the potential risk of chemical substances contained in cosmetics packaging materials can not only add the corresponding knowledge reserve to the inspection system of cosmetics quality, but also add a powerful barrier to the protection of people’s health and safety and the environment.