These are terrible for humans, so we don't use them!
Restricted Ingredients
- 1,4 Dioxane – skin irritant, potential toxicant
- Aluminum Zirconium – potential carcinogen
- Animal by-products – materials harvested from the death of an animal.
- Benzalkonium/Benzethonium Chloride – potential carcinogen
- Benzyl Acetate – potential neurotoxin
- Bronopol – releases formaldehyde & nitrosamines into products
- Butyl Acetate – flammable, repeated exposure causes skin cracking
- Butylated Hydroxytoluene/Hydroxyanisole (BHT/BHA) – potential carcinogen and hormone disruptors
- Ceteareth Compounds – irritant, alters skin structure
- Coal Tar – carcinogen
- Cocamide/Lauramide DEA – potential carcinogen, highly irritating
- DMDM Hydantoin – formaldehyde releasing preservative
- Ethyl Acetate – highly flammable
- Ethylene Glycol – potential toxicant
- Formaldehyde – known carcinogen
- Hydroquinone – skin irritant, possible links to organic toxicity
- Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate – potential carcinogen and allergen
- Lead and Lead Compounds – toxicant, carcinogen
- Mineral Oil – Non bio-degradable, pore clogging ingredient
- Oxybenzone – developmental and reproductive toxicity
- P-Phenylenediamine (PPD) – potential irritant, may trigger asthma
- Parabens – potential carcinogen
- Pentasodium Pentetate – potential irritant
- Petroleum Distillates – clogs pores, non-biodegradable
- Petrolatum – can be contaminated during the refining process with probable carcinogens
- Phenyl T-Butylnitrone – synthetic antioxidant
- Phenylbenzimidazole sulfonic acid – synthetic UV filter
- Phenylisopropyl dimethicone – synthetic conditioning agent
- Polyaminopropyl biguanide – synthetic preservative, probable carcinogen
- Polybutene – possible irritant
- Polydecene – possible toxicant
- Polyethylene – possible irritant
- Polyethylene glycol - contains contaminates Ethylene Oxide & 1,4 Dioxane
- Pthalates – Irritant, probable endocrine disruptor
- Quaternium -15 – formaldehyde releasing preservative
- Sodium trideceth sulfate – Irritant, potentially contaminated with 1,4 Dioxane and Ethylene Oxide
- Sorbeth-30 tetraoleate – potentially contaminated with 1,4 Dioxane and Ethylene Oxide
- Stearamide MEA – potentially contaminated with Nitrosamines
- Steareth-2 – Irritant, potentially contaminated with 1,4 Dioxane and Ethylene Oxide
- Talc – carcinogen
- Toluene – carcinogen, contribute to reproductive toxicity, highly flammable
- Triclosan – potential irritant
- TEA-Carbomer – potentially contaminated with 1,4 Dioxane and Ethylene Oxide
- TEA-Lauryl sulfate – potentially contaminated with 1,4 Dioxane and Ethylene Oxide
- Tetrahydroxypropyl ethylenediamine – potentially contaminated with 1,4 Dioxane and Ethylene Oxide
- Trideceth-12 – potentially contaminated with 1,4 Dioxane and Ethylene Oxide
- Tridecyl neopentanoate – potential allergen and irritant
D4 (Cyclotetrasiloxane) and lower Molecular Weight Silicones – toxic to human reproductive system and accumulates in the environment