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The American Wellness Network supports The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics.
We encourage you to visit the sites below and find out how you can be heard while at the same time learning how you can avoid the thousands of toxic chemicals that are used in the manufacture of cosmetics and body care products as well as your environment.
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is a coalition working to protect your health by calling for the elimination of chemicals used in the cosmetics industry linked to cancer, birth defects and other health problems.
At www.safecosmetics.org you can read up on your health, access scientific reports, materials and resources, check the FDA regulations for yourself and, most of all, TAKE ACTION. You can be heard.
The Campaign in the News
The high price of beauty
The Nation, 10/8/07
Concern rises over effects of parabens
Chicago Tribune, 9/4/07
An Inconceivable Truth: The link between infertility & the environment
Vogue, August 2007
Compact for Safe Cosmetics
We also encourage you to do business with the companies that have signed the Compact for Safe Cosmetics.
When companies sign the Compact for Safe Cosmetics, they are pledging not only to make safer products, but also to provide greater transparency to consumers about their products. But who defines what “safer” is? And how do we know they’re actually making good on their promise?
To help answer these and other questions related to implementing the Compact for Safe Cosmetics, The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics has developed step-by-step instructions for companies who sign the Compact for Safe Cosmetics. Click Here for more information and a list of companies.
A new book by Stacy Malkan, "Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry," tells the inside story of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and our five-year effort to pressure the U.S. cosmetics industry to use safer ingredients.
Did you know that the FDA has no authority to require companies to safety test their ingredients or the power to require recalls of unsafe products? It's true. As a matter of fact cosmetics are the least regulated products at the FDA.
Visit www.notjustaprettyface.org for more information or to order Stacy's book.
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