A little-known and highly dangerous earth metal used to craft spaceships has been found in wildfire-ravaged homes and in the ...

The Scary Truth About Your Kid’s Face Paint With Halloween around the corner, Sen. Chuck Schumer thinks the FDA should be required to test face paint for toxic metals.

The only face paint company listed in the Environmental Working Group's Skin Deep Database is Elegant Minerals (their products are a 2/3 on a scale of 1 to 10 for toxicity). They sell a set of 15 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A word of warning from an environmental watchdog group about some of that makeup and face-paint your child may be wearing this Halloween: It could contain heavy metals. "When it ...

The toxic metal is found in cast iron or steel enamel tubs coated with a porcelain ... Results indicated both had been exposed to the toxic heavy metal. But to their surprise, paint wasn’t the ...

Lead, a toxic metal, has a known risk of causing serious health effects, some of which can be permanent, particularly in young children. ... Lead-based paint was banned in 1978, ...

Some children's art supplies contain toxic chemicals. One brand wants to change that. Honeysticks has launched a new, non-toxic Finger Paint that is better for kids and the planet.

In Southwest Side viaducts, peeling paint contains toxic levels of lead. But is it a hazard? Three years ago, a teacher and her sixth-graders found levels hundreds of times what would be ...

One driver for the researchers: A desire to avoid toxic materials. To create these colors, synthetic materials like heavy metals are used to create vivid paints.