What Makeup Can I Use While Pregnant?
9 Easy Beauty Routine Swaps You MUST Make Once You're Pregnant
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Swap out: products with undisclosed "fragrance" or "parfum"
"A scented product is not necessarily problematic," Nneka Leiba, director for Healthy Living Science at EWG, told me. "However, it becomes a problem when a manufacturer uses the term 'fragrance' rather than disclose the ingredients." Leiba said that "fragrance" is a largely unknown mixture of any number of the fragrance industry's 3,000 ingredients. "Some of these ingredients have been linked to hormone disruption, which should be particularly worrisome for pregnant women," she warned. So better to avoid the vague ingredient!
Swap in these safe options instead: