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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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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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Trust Fund Beauty Nail Vernis in Mermaid Vibes, $15
Just in case you were iffy on the status of the whole fantastical, ethereal makeup and nail trend, there's this gorgeous new color for Spring 2017 to convince you. Plus, it's 10-free so you can feel environmentally friendly: Save the mermaids.

BY EMILY WOODRUFF | MAR 7, 2017 | SHARES
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