yes, but brands also have a history of including ingredients that turn out to have long-term negative repercussions in products - take the mario badescu steroid example, above. at least when clean-marketed brands say they don’t include phthalates, which are associated with increased adverse reproductive outcomes, type ii diabetes, oxidative stress, insulin resistance, allergies, and asthma, that reduces my exposure.

https://www.epa.gov/americaschildrenenvironment/biomonitoring-phthalates

but then you’re paying a racist

disagree. I don’t want phthalates in my lipstick or lotion on top of all the other, less controllable daily exposures in food packaging

it is though. because of the known using slave labor