Laura DiGirolamo
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And so the European Union decided to take that as a recommendation, as a voluntary recommendation for brands.
If you're going to use that ingredient, try and make a food grade.
I mean, that's how the industry at the ingredient level definitely sees that there is an issue with some of these things going into the body.
It's just right now nothing is required anymore.
from brands or anyone making this stuff to say, is it safe to be ingested?
Because at the end of the day, it's for external use only, not for ingestion.
But yet we're flavoring this stuff like food and we're taking our six-year-olds or eight-year-olds or 10-year-olds, here, pick a lip gloss.
And you don't realize that actually 80, they say 80 to 90% of those lip glosses are made from microplastics.
So things like copolymers, things like, you know, they're plastic ingredients flavored like food.
It's a what?
It was a big aha moment for me and I was in the industry for over 20 years.
So if I was just seeing it at that moment, what are brands going to think when this stuff starts to come out?
Fact.
REACH, which is the organization in Europe that is responsible for chemical law, has instituted a phase-out of microplastics, for example, from, I think, you know, it was a few years ago, four years ago, to 2035, okay?
So remember when there was this big thing about microplastic beads in body wash?
Like, no more microplastic beads in body wash because you're washing it off and it's going into the environment.
Okay, so I applauded that.
That's great.
But they also have in this same document that by 2031, lip products need to come with a warning on the box that says contains microplastics.
And then by 2035, we need to phase those out.
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