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Breakin' the Law
  • Curses
    I ran across an Etsy makeup seller who's hawking a glow-in-the-dark eyeshadow. (I'm such a masochist... I like to look through Etsy MU to find all the ridiculous claims and improper labeling.) As far as I know, there's only one fluorescent/phosphorescent/luminescent (not sure which is the most accurate term here) substance that the FDA allows in makeup--zinc sulfide, which is what this lady's using--and it's not approved for use around the eye. So how does a consumer report a violation to the FDA? What usually happens in situations like this?

    This sort of thing is why I don't buy a lot of personal care stuff from small companies. Either she's selling this stuff because she doesn't care about safety regulations or she's unaware of them. Either way, I don't want to put anything such a person makes around my eyes!
  • Left BrainLeft Brain
    "I'm such a masochist... I like to look through Etsy MU to find all the ridiculous claims and improper labeling."  - lol! 
    Seriously, if you want to report them the FDA makes it relatively easy.
    http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm095859.htm
    Although, unless people are complaining of actual injury I'm skeptical the FDA will do much about it beyond writing a letter to the offender. 
  • PurpleRulesPurpleRules
    I think we're dancing around the real issue here, which is why the Hell would anyone want to wear glow-in-the-dark eye shadow? Safety is all well and good but does it really matter if you're wandering around looking like a special effect from a low budget horror movie? 
  • JamiSingsJamiSings
    Purple - Ravers. They love crazy crap like that.
  • Curses
    I'd wear it for certain clubs or occasions if it were safe. I own a lot of blacklight reactive shadows, but they're all interesting colors in normal light. This glow-in-the-dark one is the same greenish-cast white that all glow-in-the-dark stuff is, so I imagine it'd be hard for a lot of people to wear. The fact that this seller didn't even try to make it look wearable, maybe by blending in a pigment or something, just seems lazy to me. At that point, she basically just took a wholesale ingredient, put it in her own plastic jar, and claimed to be a cosmetic formulator. Besides, I found a review that says the texture is like fine sand, so even if you loved it, you probably wouldn't be able to blend it or even keep it in place very well.

    Thanks for the link, Jami. I'm really thinking about reporting it. Whether the seller is ignorant or underhanded, she shouldn't put out such an unsafe product. Besides, ravers should only go to the hospital for dehydration or Ecstasy overdose, not scratched corneas!
  • JamiSingsJamiSings
    That wasn't me, that was LB. I just was replying to Purple. Those ravers wear crazy stuff.
  • Curses
    Oops. Thanks, LB!
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