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

Oceana Setaysha
· April 11th, 2016

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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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Oceana Setaysha

Senior Writer A passionate writer since her early school days, Oceana has graduated from writing nonsense stories to crafting engaging content for...Read Morean online audience. She enjoys the flexibility to write about topics from lifestyle, to travel, to family. Although not currently fulfilling the job of parent, her eight nieces and nephews keep her, and her reluctant partner, practiced and on their toes. Oceana holds a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Writing and Indonesian, and has used her interest in languages to create a career online. She's also the resident blonde at BarefootBeachBlonde.com, where she shares her, slightly dented, wisdom on photography, relationships, travel, and the quirks of a creative lifestyle. Read Less

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