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What You Really Need to Know About the Chemicals in Your Nail Polish

Are non-toxic nail polishes all they're cracked up to be? Here's what you need to know
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8- and 9-Free Nail Polish
These polishes are for natural nail lovers who truly want to commit to their cause. Eight-free polishes exclude all the previous ingredients mentioned, plus triphenyl phosphate, a possible endocrine disruptor that may be easily absorbed through the nail, according to one study.

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Butter London Nail Lacquer + Pantone in Greenery, $10
Butter London, an eight-free nail polish brand, teamed up with Pantone to bring you a lacquer in this year's color of the year. It's as green as your natural nail polish intentions

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Tenoverten Nail Polish in 043 LA, $18
This is the perfect eco-friendly, eight-free, poppy red polish to toss on a fur stole at your next animal rights protest -- you know, if you're into that kind of thing by now.

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Smith & Cult Nail Lacquer in Ghost Edit, $18
If Spring comes and goes and you didn't paint on a nude that screams "bridesmaid in the throes of wedding season," was it ever really Spring? Smith & Cult's eight-free nail polish thinks not.

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9-Free and 10-Free Nail Polish
These are an ambitious, if small, bunch. A quick refresher: These non-toxic nail polishes are free of all ingredients previously mentioned: formaldehyde, toluene, DBP, camphor, formaldehyde resin, xylene, triphenyl phosphate and parabens, and they also tout a lack of animal ingredients and/or fragrance. However, take this plumped-up non-toxic nail polish list with a grain of salt: animal ingredients typically aren't included in most polishes (like E.L.F., NCLA, Zoya, SpaRitual, Wet n Wild and China Glaze, to name a few). Still, it's a nice pat on the back to be certain your polishes are guilt-free as can be.

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BY EMILY WOODRUFF | MAR 7, 2017 | SHARES
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