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The 13 Gross Cosmetic Ingredients

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Are you aware what creams and cosmetic products use as main ingredients? Are you aware what kind of gross things you put on your face and body during your health management?  Maybe most of those ingredients are good for us, but where they come from is just bizarre… Starting from number one:

Snail Slime

1 Snail Slime The 13 Gross Cosmetic Ingredients

The Glycolic acid and elastin in a snail’s secretion helps skin with bacterias and cuts. The Snail Slime is also great source for proteins and it helps in skin regeneration.

Bull Semen

2 Bull Semen The 13 Gross Cosmetic Ingredients

Yes, the Bull semen! According to multiple researches, the semen is great for conditioning your hair. A lot of luxury salons offers special treatments with bull semen as special ingredient.

Whale Intestinal Waste

3 Whale Intestinal Waste The 13 Gross Cosmetic Ingredients

The Whale vomit, or “Ambergris” is a thing that is extremely valuable. The perfumes like Channel and Lanvin uses the Ambergris in order to create their scents.

Crushed Beetles

4 Crushed Beetles The 13 Gross Cosmetic Ingredients

The red color from a lot of dyes and manu other cosmetic products comes from  Cochineal Beetles. The bugs are soaked in boiling water, then drued and crushed for red color. They have wide usage in products like dyers and lipsticks. They are well known under the name “Carmine” in ingredients list.

Rust

5 Rust The 13 Gross Cosmetic Ingredients

Also known as ferrous oxide, the rust is mostly used as dyer for cosmetics like calamine lotion  and it’s pink coloring.

Dead Algea

6 Dead Algea The 13 Gross Cosmetic Ingredients

The dead algae are widely used in cosmetics. This ingredient has been used in deodorants, cuticle cream, toothpastes, powders and many more products known for abrasiveness.

Hot Pepper Oil

7 Hot Pepper Oil The 13 Gross Cosmetic Ingredients

A lot of limp plumping cosmetics uses the pepper spray as the ingredient. the pepper will be labeled as “Oleoresin Capsicum” in bottles.

Chicken Bone Marrow

8 Chicken Bone Marrow The 13 Gross Cosmetic Ingredients

The chicken bone marrow is widely used as the anti-inflammatory for tropical skin care such as moisturizers and face creams.

Egg Whites

9 Egg Whites The 13 Gross Cosmetic Ingredients

Sticky but useful and widely used in a lot of skin-firming products.

Fish Scales

10 Fish Scales The 13 Gross Cosmetic Ingredients

Guanine is a crystalline material obtained from fish scales. In cosmetics and personal care products, Guanine is used to give a shimmer or sheen to the product.

Wool Wax

11 Wool Wax The 13 Gross Cosmetic Ingredients

Sheep wool naturally produces oil called Lanolin, which is a natural water repelling substance. Lanolin and its many derivatives are used extensively in high value cosmetics to provide barrier protection to chapped skin, soothe dryness, and provide moisture.

Placenta

12 Placenta The 13 Gross Cosmetic Ingredients

Many products claim that placental proteins makes for a super rich and strong hair formula. Grossed out by the prospect of human afterbirth in your face mask product? Some companies use pig placenta instead, oh boy!

Foreskin

13 Foreskin The 13 Gross Cosmetic Ingredients

In the medical field, human foreskin has been used for years as a method to cultivate new skin growth, instead of performing skin grafts on burn patients. It’s been proven to work much more effectively. The same method is also used in the cosmetics world. Companies use foreskin fibroblasts in cosmetic creams and collagens, especially those made to reduce wrinkles.


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