Okay this thing about Vitamin E has been eating at me, so I went to the link you directed us to which is the FDA Approved
ANIMAL Drug products. Now I ain't the prettiest Geek on the site, but I sure ain't no dog lol! So either you have directed us to the wrong site, or you should be on a vets forum, or you are totally misleading us!!!!!
So I went to the FDA home page and looked up cosmetics and this is what I found - and I have been researching this for the last 3 hours so it isn't something I have done lightly! Firstly I put in a search for Vitamin E which only brought me up with some drugs for animals. Then I went the whole shabang and looked up cosmetics (guys if you want to have a look it is full of loads of USEFUL information based on fact, particularly about MMA and formaldehyde in nail poducts, heres the link
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/%7edms/cos-toc.html).
So here we go, I'll actually print from their site .............
COSMETIC INGREDIENTS - UNDERSTANDING THE PUFFERY ...........
Although the debate about the value of vitamins in skin care products continues, it is generally accepted that a sufficient quantity of vitamin E (shown on ingredient lists as tocopherol), an antioxidant, preserves the fatty components in cosmetic creams and lotions to prevent off-color and off-odors.
COSMETIC SAFETY - MORE COMPLEX THAN AT FIRST BLUSH,( raises your point, but strangely this is under the heading "What's Natural" and not the Headed paragraph above it " Allergic reactions" (
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/cos-safe.html) ) .............
Anyone who has ever had poison ivy knows that "natural" and "hypoallergenic" are not necessarily interchangeable terms. For example, some manufacturers of cosmetics marketed as natural products use naturally occurring vitamins E and C as preservatives. But, according to Alexander Fischer, M.D., author of Contact Dermatitis, "Topical vitamin E is a potent sensitizer which can produce both delayed allergic contact dermatitis and immediate allergic hives."
(funnily there is no reference to respiratory problems which was the whole point of this thread, adn definitely no reference to causing problems to lungs like you suggest)
(further down this link is a list of banned ingredients):
Except for color additives and a few prohibited ingredients, a cosmetic manufacturer may use any ingredient or raw material and market the final product without government approval. The prohibited ingredients are:
- biothionol
- hexachlorophene
- mercury compounds (except under certain conditions as preservatives in eye cosmetics)
- vinyl chloride and zirconium salts in aerosol products
- halogenated salicylanilides
- chloroform
- methylene chloride
So guys go look on all your nail/ beauty/ products and if any of you find these listed on your ingredients I suggest you report back to the FDA!!!!!!!!!
There are so many health scares in these blasted journals these days that you'd never eat or drink anything again if you believed the half of what is written and this is one I could have done without.
Having reread and reread your thread I am not surprised that Gigi defended her product. You have quite clearly made remarks at a particular product (ie Solar products) and not to topical vitamin E as a whole, so perhaps you would like to post on here the evidence that you have come across to substantiate your claim. By the way I have no agenda, I have no links to Creative, I would just like the information on this site to remain as it was - informative and helpful. I should be very careful what you post in the future, your information is misleading, scaremongering and downright unprofessional and I for one would rather do without it.