COSMETICS INCLUDE HEAVY METALS: LAWS RELATED TO IT AROUND THE WORLD
AUTHOR – ANJANAH G J, STUDENT AT SASTRA DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY
Best Citation – ANJANAH G J, COSMETICS INCLUDE HEAVY METALS: LAWS RELATED TO IT AROUND THE WORLD, Indian Journal of Legal Review (IJLR), 3 (2) of 2023, Pg. 71-77, APIS – 3920 – 0001 & ISSN – 2583-2344.
ABSTRACT
Beauty creates an impression of an individual when someone meets or looks at him/her. Beauty is gender neutral but it is mostly women who fall for this trap of looking better than men. The picturization of women is always done in an imaginary way and in such way, she is depicted as beautiful. But it is often not imagined that she is also a human being, having hormonal secretion and whatever way she looks it’s just “her”. In order to attain of what is being picturized, the consumers fall for these cosmetic products. These products deceive the consumers by saying that they it is safe and will add various kinds of contaminants. One such contaminant being the heavy metals puts the health of the consumers in huge trouble and continuous use of which might even affect the nervous system, kidney system and even reproductive system of the human body[1]. The author in this paper has tried to explain the hazardous outcome which emanates along with the use of cosmetics including personal and hygiene care products. The paper also tries to throw light on the laws related to cosmetics enacted in India as well as major countries with similar or better regulations. This paper is majorly based upon the study conducted by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)[2] on Heavy Metals in Cosmetics, January 2014[3].
Keywords: Cosmetics Product, Heavy Metal, Drug and Cosmetics Act, 1940, ppm (parts per million), Coloring Agent
[1] (Kim et al., 2015, Bocca et al., 2014, Senesse et al., 2004, Agoramoorthy et al., 2008, Al Amry et al., 2011, Smith et al., 2015) and also in “Evaluation of heavy metals in cosmetic products and their health risk assessment” by Hamna Arshad,Moniba Zahid Mehmood, Munir Hussain Shah, and Arshad Mehmood Abbasi (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7335825/) (visited on 24.03.2023)
[2] Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is a not-for-profit public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi, India. Established in 1980, CSE works as a think tank on environment-development issues in India, poor planning, climate shifts devastating India’s Sundarbans and advocates for policy changes and better implementation of the already existing policies. https://www.cseindia.org/ (Visited on 22.03.2023)
[3] Heavy Metals in Cosmetics, Investigators: Mr. Ramakant Sahu, Ms. Poornima Saxena and Dr. Sapna Johnson; PML/PR-45/2014 (https://cdn.cseindia.org/userfiles/Heavy_Metals_in_Cosmetics_Report.pdf) (Visited on: 26.03.2023)