Based on the international best selling book "The Chemical Maze" - with over 8 years of research.
What preservatives and additives are in your food and how do they effect you?
What ingredients are in the cosmetics you’re wearing?
Identify dangerous food additives and cosmetics ingredients with ease.
The Chemical Maze app was written to make it simpler and easier to recognize food additives and cosmetic ingredients having the potential to cause discomfort and ill-health. With this recognition comes freedom of choice and for many a new lease on life.
Easy to Use:
Easily browse through either Food Additives or Cosmetic Ingredients
Search for Food Additives by name
Search for Food Additives by INS number - Example 621 or E621 - MSG
Search Cosmetic or Personal Care ingredients by name
Add identified Food Additive or Cosmetic Ingredient to your favorites list
Find out detail information about the Additive or Cosmetic Ingredient:
Functions - What the chemical is used for eg: Thickener, Stabilizer etc
Potential Effects - How it may effect you eg: Asthma, Migraines, rash etc
Possible uses - Where the chemical may be used eg: Food, Shoe polish, Jelly
A face guide shows just how user-friendly each additive/ingredient is, from safe and/or beneficial through to potentially hazardous to health.
Today's informed consumers are no longer content to accept that all the additives and ingredients in foods and personal care and cosmetic products are benign and therefore can do no harm. This increased awareness is a result of both personal experience and the proliferation of information via various media exposing the potential damaging effects of many of the synthetic chemicals in use today, including those used in foods and cosmetics.
This application has been produced to make it simpler and easier for you to recognize safe foods, cosmetics and personal care products so you can help protect your health, the health of your family and the health of the environment.