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13 Gross Ingredients Hidden in Your Beauty Products

Lipstick that contains bug juice, soap made of human breast milk ... see what you've been slathering on your face and body

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Road Kill (tallow)

According to Skin Deep Cosmetic Safety Database, the process of rendering animal fat consists of boiling animal carcasses in a pot to create fatty byproducts. The decaying animals used come from every source imaginable: lab animals, deadstock (animals that die before they reach the slaughterhouse), euthanized zoo and shelter animals, expired meat from grocery stores and -- wait for it -- road kill. The majority of this fat is used as a skin-conditioning agent and an emollient in cosmetics like lipstick, eyeshadow and soap.

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I feel like some of these products are even in our food products. Anyone heard about Starbucks using insect red dye to make their baked goods? On the bright side, thanks to consumers, Starbucks is finally changing it around and usually tomato red dye instead.

by MissXu Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 10:27AM Report as inappropriate

Sometimes I just like being dumb and happy.

by beautybody Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 10:56PM Report as inappropriate

Shock Value..that's all. A great article would be ... just what ARE those ingredients in my beauty products (names I can't pronounce) and what are they suppose to do. Come on, those photos were just disgusting and belong on a creepshow blog.

by islands4me Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 08:18AM Report as inappropriate

"Snail ooze"?! Seriously, what would inspire someone to use this "ingredient" in ANYTHING?

by LUCYGOOSEY74 Saturday, March 10, 2012 at 02:48PM Report as inappropriate