Sounds great and looks great: It smells really like nothing. I wondered immediately whether as a "water-like" product because really clean would and made according to the application - which seemed already to deliver a visibly good cleaning results in my day make-up - the test with another cleansing lotion ... and indeed, there was nothing. Were merely the eye make-up still "remains available", the eye make-up remover were then removed better and completely with a "right". So basically "really" great - why only really?
I was curious to see how the fluid works and what it does with this "micelle" technology on and was shocked:
The product contains tiny plastic beads. Precisely those who can not be cleaned out in the sewage treatment plant and then (eg fish) to be resumed just in the water also of animals.
The additives contained trisodium EDTA and PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil are anything but harmless, if you researched times - and you know obviously not new:
The feature of EDTA, heavy metals and calcium to bind to itself, makes the material an undesirable ingredient for the environment. It is also known since the eighties that EDTA causes allergies.
The letters PEG before a word indicate that it is a Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) derivative of the relevant substance. So for example: "PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil '- as in the case of the cleaning fluid from NIVEA maybe looks like as if it is natural castor oil, but in truth the oil received a chemical treatment with ethylene oxide (it was ethoxylated) . and ethylene oxide is a petrochemical means ...
PEG acts also apparently "penetration-promoting," that is, the skin becomes more permeable to drugs, but also for possible toxins, which can thus easily enter the body. Therefore, the use of PEG is highly controversial in cosmetics.
I was always a big fan of NIVEA products - but this is now the second product where Nivea has quite disappointed me and I feel led me as a consumer into error: If I have a "Sensitive" Cleaning Fluid buy me that advertises what it all does not use, but then I go on the assumption that it is not used for other substances that are just as damaging if not worse ... * kopfschüttel *
