BOb is this your grudge again?
Is every bit of acrylic paint and every gem stone your other half uses cosmetic grade?
Errr.. what grudge? Do I attack specific products? Do I ever state that our products are better than anyone elses? Do we even sell in the UK? So how could I benefit by making grudge statements?
For the record, Iryna used a lot of different products in the past - most nail artists do the same and choose what they think is best from each manufacturer. So do many salon competition competitors - no one company can reasonably say everything they make or do is the best. We respect good products and manufacturers, however we do not respect manufacturers that don't publish their ingredients or don't follow the law.
I'm sorry that you took my post in this way. I thought that I was giving the benefit of my knowledge having deeply studied the European Cosmetic Directive and having done specific research into what glitters we could add to our products. As a manufacturer, that's our responsibility to follow the law. As a friend of nail techs everywhere and whatever product they buy, I try sometimes to educate.
If people decide to ignore information that's really their choice. As we all know, some techs still use MMA liquid because some idiots mix it up in a back room somewhere. Other techs buy acrylic and gel from China which for sure has had no clinical trials and dubious safety. Other techs ignore the need for adequate ventilation and put both their health and the customers at risk. However, we are professionals aren't we? If someone gives advice about potential health risks isn't it our responsibility to heed that advice or at the minimum do our own research?
Whether acrylic paint can cause overexposure is as far as I know unknown. What I am reasonably sure of (and stand to be corrected) is that there is no form of cosmetic acrylic paint. So the choice does not exist. However, we don't sell acrylic paint and wouldn't until I did more research and understood the implications. The fact is that some pigments are carcinogenic - so this is not something to take lightly.
In the past, Iryna did buy loose glitter from companies that sell glitter for nails. Sometimes not from known nail manufacturers but companies who specialize in nail decoration and whose source was perhaps questionable.
But once we became informed that cosmetic glitter existed and had to be FDA approved, her old supply of glitter in her salon was discarded. Since then she only uses acrylics/gels that have cosmetic glitter, or cosmetic glitter we buy from FDA approved manufacturers that sometimes she uses to make one-off effects.
I thought that I was simply trying to help and that my last sentence expressed that with a bit of humour. Sorry that I didn't communicate that well enough.
