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What’s in your makeup? By Ana Mendoza The Collegian Mayra Pulido, a junior at Fresno State, not only sells cosmetics produced by Mary Kay, but uses 15 products every morning before she leaves for school. Pulido, however, is not an uncommon student. From foundation to lipstick, many women use more than six products every day. But are these products safe? The list of ingredients in these products are hard to pronounce and even harder to understand. When they are tested by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other non-profit organizations, the results are telling. Lead, animal waste from slaughter houses, and harmful chemicals known to cause cancer have been found in the cosmetic products Americans use every day. Currently the FDA has very little jurisdiction over the contents in these products. In November 2009, the FDA reported on their website the results of their analysis regarding the findings of lead in lipsticks. The analysis found that in a sample containing 20 brands of lipstick, all of them contain lead. The brands with higher lead levels were Cover Girl, L’Oreal, Body Shop, Maybelline and Revlon. Cover Girl, the brand with the highest level of lead, showed a level of 3.06 ppm (parts per million). This was more than 30 times higher than the least polluted brands that were tested. According to lead.org.au (Lead Education and Abatement Design group inc.), lead is known to cause learning, behavioral, health problems and sometimes even death. Because lipstick is usually applied several times a day, it is difficult to predict how it might affect each individual. Animal products are also used in cosmetics, including fish scales, bones, cochineal beetles, whale sperm and other decomposing animal parts. According to PETA, ingredients such as hyaluronic acid (juices from the umbilical cord and the joints), gelatin (boiled animal skins, tendons, and ligaments), and even crushed snails are used as cheaper alternatives to either thicken or enhance makeup and other products. The most popular ingredient is lanolin, which according to safecosmetics.org, is “a fatty substance secreted by sheep.” The names used in the ingredient list of these products, however, do not always specify the origin of each
By Janessa Tyler The Collegian
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“We should have safe products like the Europeans do.”
— Susana Villagomez, Student, Fresno State
ingredient. Words like glucosamine, pearl essence (silvery-white substance obtained from the scales of certain fishes or derived synthetically, as from mercuric chloride), cochineal dye, lanolin, carmine, carminic acid, ambergris and other scientific names are used instead. “[Often] they don’t use the proper scientific name, which makes reading the label very hard,” said Dr. Melissa
Students count sheep
L. Golden of the chemistry department at Fresno State. Chemicals that are known to cause cancer are a danger to consumers as well. The European Union currently has stricter laws than the United States. Regardless of the concentration of cancer causing chemicals, European laws acknowledge that “chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects simply don’t belong in cosmetics,” as reported by safecosmetics.org.
“We should have safe products like the Europeans do,” said Susana Villagomez, a junior at Fresno State. In January 2003, the European Union Directive was revised. This revision banned 1,100 chemicals from cosmetics that were linked to cancer and other health problems. The FDA has been able to ban or restrict only 11 chemicals in our cosmetics. Apart from the FDA, the Cosmetic Ingredient Review (CIR) has also been designed to serve as a watchdog of cosmetic companies. Among many other accusations, the CIR has been called, “the largely self-policing safety review board of the cosmetic industry” by the Environmental Working Group (EWG). The CIR has been in existence for See COSMETICS, Page 3
Picture this: It’s 7 a.m. and your coffee maker just broke as you’re rushing to get out the front door. Now you’re scrambling around the kitchen looking for some alternate caffeine drink. A long day consisting of class lectures and possible pop quizzes dawns ahead and you can’t stop thinking about when you get to go back to sleep. Oh, the typical life of a college student. Many students find themselves falling asleep in class after only a couple of hours of being on-campus. Eventually, students start wanting one thing, and one thing only, after the coffee and energy drinks wear out a nap. There are a ton of places on campus where students can find a spot to nap. One place is the Henry Madden Library, where five levels of new furniture give students plenty of comfort. Ambur Guerrero, 19, escapes the heat and finds tranquility in the library when she has time between her history and communication classes. “I go to the second floor of the library because it’s air-conditioned and food friendly,” said Guerrero. Guerrero said she finds herself falling asleep in class during the winter, but not as much during the warmer seasons. “I’m in my sweats and the heater is usually on,” said Guerrero. “I feel all snugly.” The library isn’t the only place on campus with couches and spots to rest. The staff at the Health Promotion and Wellness Services Department provides a “couch map” where students can find suitable places to nap around campus. Some of the locations include the Kremen Education building, the Business building and the Joyal Administration building. The Kremen Education building has four small couches in the basement, and the Business building has six small couches on the third floor. The Joyal Administration building has a couch on each floor near the women’s restrooms. Students sometimes forget to guard their belongings when they nap on campus, so the staff recommends using your backpack as a pillow to prevent theft. Whether it’s in the library or in a campus building, many students feel tempted to close their eyes and doze off between classes. Pre-veterinarian major Taylor Hall, 20, said she usually eats a snack when she is tired, but she isn’t ruling out taking a quick nap in the nature on-campus, during her break. “I’ve always wanted to take a nap on the grassy hills by the library,” said Hall. Hall said she goes to the University Student Union (USU) to watch music videos on their multiple television screens or she goes home to her Delta Zeta sorority house to take a quick nap if she has a long break. Kinesiology major Curtis Kleinman, 23, puts energy back into him by eating