Wow, this was a frightening one to research.

So I was flipping through A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetics Ingredients, and was intrigued by the fact that there seemed to be pretty much no restrictions on what a company could put in their products in America, but that the author kept referring to the "Canadian Ingredient Hotlist", so I decided I wanted to know more about the differences in regulations in the two countries.

It's not pretty.

Here are two examples of direct comparisons...

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