Now all they need to do is tell everyone how TOXIC make up is. Are you willing to risk your health for beauty ?

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So just which "scientists for profit" contributed to this article. Names and specializations please, and the companies they work for ! Obviously, if any real scientists were to contribute positively to this article, they would tell you about all the dangerous, and toxic chemicals in make-up, from those that cause cancer to others that cause nerve and celluar damage, possibly brain damage, kidney damage, liver damage, lymph system damage, and the list goes on.

How can women be so ignorant, and too lazy to look into what they are putting on their skin. What goes on the skin gets absorbed into the body. While we are talkiing about toxic chemicals let's bring up hairspray, perfumes, shampoos etc ! Women you are deceived for money, and you are used based on your insecurities and weakness. Doing this to yourself for a man ? He isn't worth it. Doing it for a job ? Another dumb employer who discriminates on gender. Women in the US have not come along way baby. NO, they are not any further ahead in the gender game then they were before.

This is what 'scientests' say?

The most important thing about make-up, something which this article completely ignores, are the tremendous toxins in make-up - especially lipstick. I've never been interested in a made up face... to me it speaks to a person's insecurity with their physical appearance. I'll take the un-made-up face of a confident woman anyday!

Huh, they never mentioned how harmful these things are as the article headline states. Interesting.

A perfect foil for the Cover-Girl make-up ads displayed through out the articles page. Maybe we should all just wear a paper sack over our heads, and then we would be judged by our voices, which would lead to voice cosmetic companies.

Toxic Chemical waste repackaged into colorful glossy plastic cases and 'marketed' by geniuses that can convince women that they are unattractive without face paint. Makeup reminds me of the pictures from the 1950's National Geographic Magazines of primitive tribes of face painted women. I'll always take a natural woman over a face painted clown. And don't get me started on those toxic fragrant chemicals that these same women seem to love on their cloths... Bounce sheets are not perfume - just more toxic chemicals!!!

Main problem with makeup...its all made up! There's women that need it and women that don't, just that simple. Yet I've seen them blob it on like Tammy Faye and others that look like they're the corpse in a funeral parlor, pancaked and peachy. If you are going to enhance, then fine. Too many try to paint it on to look like someone they're not, and all too often they are mentally affixed to the cover up they create in the mirror and not the person underneath. Find a woman that spends a fortune on looking good, and I'll show you a mental misfit almost every time.

What kind of garbage journalism is this? A story on science and cosmetics into which is embedded a couple ads for Cover Girl cosmetics? Give me a break. Who's editing this stuff? This is the kind of unethical journalism that will make me go back to cnn.com. What would your journalism profs think of you? You can do better. You owe it to yourselves and to your readers. Please.

I don't see a problem with ENHANCING your features, to the point that if you're not wearing makeup, you look pretty much the same; the problem is when you make yourself out to look totally different and once the makeup is off, people can no longer recognize you and run the other way! The key to makeup is making yourself out to look natural, not like a cheap whore who needs four layers of makeup to look halfway decent, but many women don't seem to get that.

Most, if not all, of today's makeup(foundations) contain sunscreen, which helps to protect your skin from the sun's rays and gives your skin a smooth, even tone. If you have delicate, easily burned skin, I would think this fact alone would be enough to justify using makeup. The whole purpose of makeup is to enhance your desirable features(eyes, lips, cheek bones, etc) and to de-emphasize your undesirable ones. I think if more women kept this in mind, we would have more "natural-looking" attractive women.

Personally, I'm glad I never bought into all that baloney. My father told my sister and me when we were in our teens that we had beautiful skin and would not need makeup (he called it 'war paint') until we were 'old bags'. That did it for me. I have seldom worn makeup in my life. My father's remark is one reason; the other is that I found that putting on makeup in the morning used up time that I would have preferred to have spent still sleeping. And of course, now, why would I want to admit that I am an old enough 'bag' to need it? Actually for my age, I still have good skin unsullied over the years by anything other than a good moisturizer and avoidance of long periods in the sun. Being olive-skinned, I was never into sunbathing. I also find the deception behind makeup off-putting. I want my real face to be what the world sees. All the things that people do these days to make themselves 'attractive' or youthful remind me of the Edgar Allen Poe story called 'The Man Who Was Used Up" about this handsome hero who had to remove his artificial parts. When he had removed them all, there was nothing left but his voice. Most of the things people do to remain youthful don't really accomplish anything but to emphasize that they are wearing tons of makeup or have had work done. Everyone knows how old they are, and there's no hiding the age of the eyes.

Levi777

I didn't think there were men in this world who thought like that, you're my kind of guy.   I feel the same way, as long as he don't look like a monster, I would much rather have a man who looks beyond the physical,  into the soul.  My husband and I have been together 25 years and I hope another 25.

I was hoping for the truth about makeup.  Like what kind of crap makeup is made from.  I'm sick of articles that don't match the headline.

This ancient fossil would have thought that the scientists' conclusions were obvious to all. Good looks are a plus in life. Always have been, always will. You don't have to like it, but that's the way it is.

just an ad purporting to be news.

I have seen women spend 2 hours putting on the most expensive of make-up. When they are done, they look exactly the way they did before! So, if you do all this to look the same as you do without it, why are you spending all that money? And then there are the "cover-ups". ladies, when it comes off, as it will, will the one you have fooled into thinking your something your not take off screaming into the nite? Just a thought---

My mother, during her lifetime, was a sales rep for Chanel and other cosmetic lines. She taught me, however, just to keep my face clean and moisturized, and that a healthy diet would do much more than makeup to maintain my skin. This natural, fuss-free style has worked for me; but other people are free to do what makes them feel best about themselves.

Seems the authors totally neglected the long term negative physical health impacts of applying these products. They generally contain toxic chemicals, which the companies are not bound to reveal or test. The government has very little authority in the matter. There is a growing movement to get the US to catch up to Europe and its chemical control laws. Search under terms such as "chemical sensitivity." A book, Not Just A Petty Face, addresses the ugly side of the beauty industry. Beauty is more than skin deep when the skim absorbs the stuff and the result is none too pretty.