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Nail Polishes Contain Undeclared DEHP, Among Other ‘Regrettable Substitutions’ – Study

 
• By Ryan Nelson

A study led by Harvard public health researchers explores a multipart question: If dibutyl phthalate has been phased out of nail polishes, what plasticizers are replacing the ingredient, are they labeled or otherwise declared, and are they any safer than DBP?

DEHP (Bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate, diethylhexyl phthalate, dioctyl phthalate, DOP) plasticizer molecule. Skeletal formula.

The media is in a tizzy over a new study on nail polish chemicals and claims, and NGOs are likely to trumpet its findings as well, though the analysis does nothing to alter the risk picture for ingredients that industry maintains are safe.

Published Oct. 10 in the American Chemical Society’s Environmental Science & Technology, the

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