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What does ‘Ten Free’ mean?

Did you know that the chemicals in commercial nail polish can be really bad for your health? Ya huh, they can.

Our motto here at HANAMI is “cosmetics with a conscience” and this includes our polishes too. While nail polish cannot be made entirely with organic and natural ingredients (hopefully sometime soon though!) we have done our best – and ensure that our polishes are safer for you by using a ‘Ten Free’ formula. What the heck does this mean? Well, most commercial nail brands contain toluene, formaldehyde, DBP, camphor, formaldehyde resin, ethyl tosylamide and xylene, parabens, phthalates and benzophenone (ugh!) – those nasty ingredients can do a bunch of harmful things to your body, from triggering allergies to causing havoc in your endocrine system.

Ethyl Acetate, Butyl Acetate, Nitrocellulose, Adipic Acid/Neopentyl Glycol/TrimellItic Anhydride Copolymer, Acetyl Tributyl Citrate, Isopropyl Alcohol, Trimethyl siloxysilicate, Stearalkonium Bentonite, N-Butyl Alcohol, Acrylates Copolymer, Polyvinyl Butyral, Trimethyl Pentanediyl Dibenzoate, Mica (CI77019), Polyethylene Terephthalate.May Contain +/-: CI 15850 Red 7 Lake, CI 15850 Red 6 Lake, CI 77499 Black Iron Oxide, CI 77891 Titanium Dioxide, CI 15880 Red 34 Lake, CI 77163 Bismuth Oxychloride, CI 77491 Iron Oxide, CI 77510 Ferric Ferrocyanide, CI 19140 Yellow 5 Lake, CI 45380 Red 22, CI 60725 Violet 2, CI 47005 Yellow 10, CI 47000 Yellow 11, CI 77000 Aluminium Powder, CI 42090 Blue 1, CI 77007 Ultramarine Blue, CI 60730 Violet 2 EXT, CI 45410 Red 28, Silica.