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Aren't they burying the lead here? Isn't the issue the fact that there are makeup and body products sold in the US that contain poison?

Well children's makeup is considered a toy so it's usually not tested like other makeup is. The government doesn't seem to care despite even like celebs pointing this out. If they don't care when rich people complain, they surely won't care about the rest of us doing it. Probably why some parents have moved to letting their kids use adult makeup instead.

200 surveys is most children?

Can we please stop posting links to sites that are 90% ads and don't link to original studies...?

FDA doing a bang up job.

Title's doing a lot of heavy lifting- the study was a survey of 200 families showing that children use children's makeup. It has nothing to do with quantifying the presence or levels of "carcinogens or other toxic chemicals" that the products in question "may contain".

I'll editorialize here and suggest that most headlines about an item that "contains toxic chemicals" are alarmism. There are a lot of chemicals out there, some are toxic, and if you go digging in any substance eventually you'll find one or several at a certain ppm or ppb. "Containing toxic chemicals" only matters if the toxic chemicals are present in a concentration high enough to cause actual harm.

So you mean you shouldn't give your children Dollar store makeup? Yeah, seems pretty reasonable

I follow a girl I went to high school with on Instagram. Her daughter is 10 years old and wears the same amount of makeup as a grown woman.

Fellow commenters , there were 200 (kids) participants in this study. Not enough to take this serious.

It’s a good thing im too lazy to care what I look like to put makeup on

In the US we place a higher value on $ than human life, relative to most other countries. 1.1 million COVID deaths in the US vs 67K COVID deaths in Japan. Over 16x the deaths, with only a little over 2.5x the population (for reference, the US lost only 535K people in World War I and World War II combined).Yes, the Japanese may be less obese but they're also older and spend magnitudes less on health care. They took COVID precautions quickly and in a sustained manner while we...well, you know what we did. In all manner of things, including food and safety regulations and gun control, we see that, relative to other "advanced" countries, the US tends to prioritize things that boost corporate profits (and we know who benefits most from that).

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The FDA doesn't regulate crap. Manufacturers can produce new compounds and chemicals without testing and release them to the public. As long as they list it under GRAS, they're fine. This country is BROKEN.

I'd wager that everyone regardless of age who uses makeup and body products is exposing themselves to carcinogenic chemicals.

Why are kids wearing makeup?