10 Super Weird Ingredients You Won’t Believe Are In Your Cosmetics

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Fish Scales

Love to wash your hair or paint your nails? Well you might think twice about it now that you know what you’re covering your body with is fish scales. We’re talking about crystalised guanine, a shiny substance that is found in fish scales. Cosmetics companies add it to shampoo and nail polish to give it that shimmery look that we all love to much. Yep, that fancy shampoo that’s supposed to make your hair into a glimmery curtain contains a big pile of fish scales scraped from catches all over the world. If you want to look out for it, just for fun, you’ll usually find it listed under the name CI 75170. Descriptive we know.

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Clare Whitfield is the Editor of Stay at Home Mum and a recognised voice in practical home management for Australian families. Based in the northern suburbs of Sydney, she balances editorial leadership with life as a stay at home mum to two school age children. Her background in home economics and more than a decade of experience in recipe development, family budgeting, and household systems inform her work.

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