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Beauty Addicts: How Toxic Are You?

sisters Emma and CharlotteEvery year we splash out £6.4 billion on beauty products, but do we ever stop to think about what's in them or what they could be doing to us? The beauty industry spends £600 million a year marketing its products as pure, simple, organic and natural, but what's the truth behind the hype?

EmmaPresenter Sarah Beeny wants to find out. First she meets Emma and Charlotte, two beauty-obsessed sisters. Between them they spend almost £1,000 a month on their beauty regime, but they have no idea how many man-made chemicals are in their favourite products or whether these could be damaging their health.

CharlotteSarah has the girls tested, and with the help of our experts, is able to reveal the chemicals being stored in their bodies and then shows them how to detox by removing some chemicals from their lives.

Two young MumsThen Sarah meets two young mums to see whether the chemicals in the products they use are being passed on to their babies, before taking to the streets to find out whether parents really know what's in the special baby products they are buying.

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