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This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Erika Beras. Got a minute?

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"Clinically Proven." "Breakthrough Technology." "Ten Years of Genetic Research."

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These are phrases you might expect to find in the pages of Scientific American.

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But these descriptions also show up in commercials and print ads for cosmetics.

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Now a study finds that some, well, make that a lot, of those science-sounding claims are simply not true.

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Researchers looked at nearly 300 ads in magazines such as Vogue.

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They analyzed claims in the ads and ranked them on a scale ranging from acceptable to outright lie.

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And they found that just 18 percent of the boasts that the researchers looked at were true.

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23 percent were outright lies.

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And 42 percent were too vague to even classify.

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The study is in the Journal of Global Fashion Marketing.

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The Food and Drug Administration regulates what goes into your cosmetics and what goes on the label.

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If a claim is blatantly untrue, the FDA can take action.

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Vague language on labels may be a way to keep the FDA at bay.

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Meanwhile, ads are regulated by the Federal Trade Commission.

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Just last year they charged L'Oreal for deceptive advertising of its Genifique products,

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which the company said were "clinically proven" to boost genes' activity that would lead to the production of proteins causing "visibly younger skin in just 7 days."

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A settlement agreement forced L'Oreal to back off on the claims.

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So take those cosmetic ads with a grain of that salt scrub,

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after all, if scientists had really come up with a product that reversed your wrinkles or grew your eyelashes, it would sell itself.

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Erika Beras.

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