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Beauty Secrets: Table 5. Consumer products ranging from skin cream to oral pharmaceuticals can contain up to 20 percent DBP
| Company | Product | DBP in product by weight |
|---|---|---|
| Procter & Gamble (Cincinnati, OH) | long wear nail polish | 7% |
| Shiseido Company, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) | oil essence | 10% |
| Woodward Laboratories, Inc (Los Alamitos, CA) | nail coating | 3.4% |
| L'Oreal (France) | treatment base for nails | 3.8% |
| Procter & Gamble (Cincinnati, OH) | pump hair spray | 0.2% |
| Kirker Enterprises, Inc (Paterson, NJ) | nail enamel | 7% |
| Maybelline Cosmetics Corporation (Wilmington, DE) | nail enamel | 5% |
| Shiseido Company, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) | night cream | 5% |
| LVMH Recherche (France) | nail enamel | 6-8% |
| Shiseido Company, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) | skin cream | 20% |
| Wacker-Chemie GmbH (Denmark) | nail varnish | 2% |
| L'Oreal (France) | nail varnish | 5% |
| Digestive Care Inc. (Lebanon, NJ) | coating for oral drugs | 2% |
| Kao Corporation (Tokyo, JP) | cosmetic emulsion | 7% |
| Procter & Gamble (Cincinnati, OH) | oral drugs | 5 mg per dosage unit |
| Anheuser-Busch, Incorporated (St. Louis, MO) | antiperspirant gel | 10% |
Source: Environmental Working Group.