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FACE PAINT 2 YEAR OLD SKIN

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FACE PAINT 2 YEAR OLD SKIN

The good news for parents is that it’s pretty easy to keep these scary ingredients away from your little one’s sensitive skin this Halloween (and throughout the rest of the year). Talc has also been linked to mesothelioma, inflammation and ovarian cancer and found in face paints.

Talc: Can be contaminated with asbestos, and then considered a carcinogenic.

Barium, if ingested, leads to severe stomach pains.

Barium: A rat poison, has been found at levels 40 times higher than their regulated safety limit in children’s face paint.

They are also endocrine disruptors and have been found in breast cancer tissue.

Parabens: These are preservatives that are often added to face paints and cosmetics.

Fragrance: Often a composite of dozens of undisclosed chemicals, ‘fragrance’ usually contains phthalates that are hormone disruptors, among other potentially dangerous chemicals.

Chromium: A heavy metal and known skin allergen that is widely restricted from use in cosmetics yet still found in face paints.

Cadmium: A hormone disruptor that has been linked to breast, kidney, lung and prostate cancer, has been found in over 30% of face paints tested.

No amount of lead is considered safe for a child. Some face paints contain shocking amounts of lead: 15,200 ppm.

Lead: Yes, the extremely toxic neurotoxin linked to lower IQ, learning and behavior problems is commonly found in face paint.

The following toxins or ingredients have been found in store-bought face painting kits and should be avoided at all times. What’s more, paints are usually applied near areas such as the eyes and mouth where they can easily be ingested and absorbed. Face paints can also contain a whole host of worrying additives that have been linked to long-term adverse health effects like cancer, birth defects, hormone disruption or learning disabilities.Ĭhildren, who these products are marketed at, are especially vulnerable to toxins due to their developing bodies and sensitive skin.

Because face paints don’t require any FDA approval, many ingredients commonly found in face painting kits are even scarier than the costumes themselves.Ī report by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics that tested 10 popular face paint brands, found traces of heavy metals such as lead, nickel and chromium alarmingly high levels. I always thought children loved having their faces painted! Is it normal that my niece freaked out having it done? And why was she afraid to look at friends with face paint on? IIN?Īlso, at the party I was going to have my face painted just for the hell of it (the little guests would have loved it because they found me quite entertaining when playing the party games) but Tia begged me not to as well.As Halloween approaches, kids around the country will have their faces painted as butterflies, fairies, lions, superheroes and, of course, scary zombies. On the way home she said how she hated face paint and was afraid that her friends would be like it forever (don't worry, we told her it would have gone by the time she saw them at school). She felt so uncomfortable that she had to leave the party early in a state. She was suddenly afraid to talk to everyone because of all the new coloured faces the kids had. When it was Tia's turn, she asked for penguin face paint, but when the face paint artist started applying it, she didn't like the feeling of the wetness on her face and asked it to be stopped. The parents of the birthday girl had hired a face paint artist for the party, and everyone was getting their faces painted as a lot of different things.

Today my niece, Tia, who is 5, went to a friend's birthday party, and my family and I went too to join in with the little kids' games to entertain them.