Since ingredient labels aren’t always straightforward, it often falls on consumers to decode them. Here’s what to watch for and how to cut through the buzzwords.

Common personal care and beauty products like lotions, soaps, shampoos, eyeliner, and even eyelash glue can contain formaldehyde or preservatives that release formaldehyde—a known carcinogen ...

Of 64 women, researchers found that 53% reported using soap, lotion, shampoo, conditioner, skin lightener, eyeliner, eyelash glue and other beauty products that contained formaldehyde and ...

A common beauty item could lead to blindness, a leading doctor has warned. Dr Saurabh Sethi, a US-based doctor trained at ...

The most common are parabens, imidazolidinyl urea, Quaternium-15, DMDM hydantoin, phenoxyethanol, methylchloroisothiazolinone, and formaldehyde. All have been linked to skin allergies. The beauty ...

Keeping the routine use of formaldehyde products in view, particularly those that stay on the skin throughout the day, such as lotions and creams, victims are subjected to prolonged exposure to ...

it may be due to an allergy to dyes or formaldehyde resins used in the manufacture of the clothing. Generally, textile dermatitis conforms to a pattern that coincides with places on the skin where ...

A prominent US-based doctor has issued a stark warning about the long-term health risks associated with fake eyelashes, ...

DMDM hydantoin was the most common formaldehyde-releasing preservative. Roughly 47 percent of skin-care products and 58 percent of hair products with formaldehyde-releasing preservatives contained ...

Since these products go directly on our skin, the health risks get personal, fast. A new study by the Silent Spring Institute — a research organization investigating environmental links to breast ...

“These results could inform the types of regulations needed to protect the U.S. population from adverse health risks due to formaldehyde exposure from personal-care product use,” the ...

While researchers have focused on the health risks posed by formaldehyde in hair straighteners and nail treatments, a study released Wednesday highlights the extent to which the carcinogen ...