We’ve known for a while now that nail polish and standard polish remover are not terribly healthy and even less healthy for the environment, but what alternatives do we have?
According to a study conducted in 2015 by Duke University and the Environmental Working Group (EWG), painting your nails with regular nail polish may release an endocrine-disrupting chemical into the body.
The study found that women who painted their nails with nail products including triphenyl phosphate (TPHP) had a metabolite of the chemical in their bodies 10 to 14 hours later. Their levels of diphenyl phosphate (DPHP), which forms when the body metabolizes TPHP, increased by nearly sevenfold, according to a news release.
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“It is very troubling that nail polish being marketed to women and teenage girls contains a suspected endocrine disruptor,” study co-author Johanna Congleton, Ph.D., MSPH, a senior scientist at EWG, said in a news release. “It is even more troubling to learn that their bodies absorb this chemical relatively quickly after they apply a coat of polish.”
For their study, researchers tested 10 polishes for TPHP and discovered the chemical in eight- two of the eight did not included TPHP in the ingredient label.
More than 1,500 nail products- including those made by Sally Hansen, OPI and Wet N Wild- contain TPHP, according to EWG’s Skin Deep cosmetics database.
According to researchers, previous laboratory studies have shown that TPHP exposure causes endocrine disruption and animal studies found the chemical caused reproductive and developmental problems. More recently, a study found that TPHP may contribute to weight gain and obesity.
TPHP is likely used as a plasticizer in nail polish to make it more flexible and durable, researchers noted. It’s been used in plastics manufacturing and as a fire retardant in foam furniture.
We set out to become more educated about non-toxic nail polishes and met up with Adair Ilyinsky co-owner of the Tenoverten salon to find out more. Watch the video above for an exclusive interview.
(Photo : Courtesy/Tenoverten Spa ) Nadine Abramcyk and Adair Ilyinsky
All tenoverten nail polish and nail care is rid of formaldehyde, dibutyl phthalate (DBP), toluene, formaldehyde resin, camphor, ethyl tosylamide, xylene, and triphenyl phosphate (TPHP), making them “8-free.” Tenoverten products are also cruelty free, vegan, and made in the USA in a factory that honors the Leaping Bunny Program manifesto.
This program provides the best assurance that no animal testing is used in any phase of product development by the company, its laboratories or suppliers.
(Photo : Courtesy/Tenoverten Spa ) Tenoverten Nail Spa
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