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How is it possible that there's lead in lipstick and phthalates in baby shampoo?
Simple. The $50 billion beauty industry is so powerful they’ve kept themselves unregulated for decades.
Read all about the toxic secret ingredients in everyday personal care products — and how activists are forcing the industry to clean up its act — in the new book by Campaign for Safe Cosmetics Communications Director Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry. Purchase the book through SafeCosmetics.org and a portion of the sale will benefit the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics.
Not Just a Pretty Face tells the inside story of the activists who went knocking on the doors
of the world’s largest cosmetics companies to ask tough questions — Why
do beauty companies market themselves as pink ribbon leaders in the
fight against breast cancer, yet use chemicals that may contribute to
that very disease? Why do products marketed to women and children contain chemicals and heavy metals linked to reproductive harm? — about our health.
The
U.S. Food and Drug Administration may turn a blind eye to these
problems while the cosmetics industry funds its own "regulatory" panel,
but you don't have to.
Practice self-love this Valentine's Day with Not Just a Pretty Face. It's a great way to protect yourself and those you love.
Visit to the book's blog » Here's what people are saying about Not Just a Pretty Face:
A must-read for everyone.
- Horst Rechelbacher, founder and former owner of Aveda
This
book should be read by women and men who have trusted, for too long,
the companies whose products get inside their bodies and their minds,
to the detriment of their health.
- Ralph Nader, consumer advocate, author of Unsafe at Any Speed
How
is it possible that our skin products continue to go unregulated by the
FDA? Shame on them for neglecting the American people in this way.
Thank you Stacy for exposing the truth. The jig is up!
- Fran Drescher, star of the Emmy award-winning series, The Nanny; president of Cancer Schmancer; uterine cancer survivor
This book should be required reading for all teenagers, including the young men.
- Theo Colborn, Ph.D., president of The Endocrine Exchange; co-author of Our Stolen Future
If
you've ever thought twice about what's in your shampoo bottle or a tube
of lipstick, it's thanks to the fine work of the Campaign for Safe
Cosmetics. In Not Just a Pretty Face, Stacy Malkan introduces
us to the brilliant and dedicated women behind the campaign, who have
dared to take on Big Beauty and managed to reinvent the environmental
movement at the same time.
- Virginia Sole-Smith, environmental/women’s health journalist
