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One of the Beauty Brains community works for the National Library of Medicine and she passed on several links that are really helpful if you want to look up safety information on ingredients used in household and personal care products. So check out the links below if you want to learn about chemicals that make up the products you use everyday.

Cosmetic ingredient database

1. Household Products Database (HPD)

Links the chemicals listed on the Material Safety Data Sheets of 8,000 brand name products (including personal care items) to health effects. HPD also links to more information about those chemicals.

2. Hazardous Substances Data Band (HSDB)

Contains comprehensive, peer-reviewed toxicology data for about 5,000 chemicals For hard core chemical information.

3. ChemIDplus

Provides access to structure and nomenclature authority databases for over 380,000 chemical records, of which over 289,000 include chemical structures.

The Beauty Brains bottom line

There are alternatives to some of the fear-mongering sites that are vocal about chemical dangers. And if you’re still hungry for more info check out http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro.html for additional useful databases.