A 2021 study led by researchers at Notre Dame ran tests on 231 cosmetic products, and found PFAS in nearly half of them.
, which represents firefighters who have been exposed to PFAS in heavily contaminated gear and heat-and-water-resistant firefighting chemicals and are now suffering from related health effects.—“What we’re finding through science is that it takes far less of these chemicals to produce disease, and it takes a much longer time, as we know, for many cancers to develop,” said Conroy. “So you’re seeing the litigation really react to the scientific information that’s coming out.
“When the science becomes more definitive about the causation links, then you see the litigation begin to make some progress because you can prove the link between exposure and disease,” she said. “The same thing has happened with PFAS.” Axiology’s line of makeup products are made from a pool of the same simple, non-toxic 10 ingredients—no more and no less. Those ingredients include organic coconut oil, avocado oil, castor seed oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, sunflower seed wax, grape seed oil, Sambucus nigra fruit extract, sunflower seed oil, tocopherol, and Azadirachta indica seed oil.
“Companies need to know where PFAS may exist in their products, and where there are opportunities to replace PFAS while still allowing for the same functionality of the product,”, a chemical engineer by trade and the current technical director at PreScouter, told The Daily Beast.
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