Not Just a Pretty Face The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry

Name: Not Just a Pretty Face The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry
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ISBN: 9780865715745

ISBN-10: 0865715742

ISBN-13: 9780865715745

Edition: 2008

Authors: Stacy Malkan

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Coal tar in dandruff shampoo, lead in lipstick, and 1,4-dioxane in baby soap? How is this possible? Simple: The $35 billion cosmetics industry is so powerful that they've kept themselves unregulated for decades. Not one cosmetic product has to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration before hitting the market. Incredible? Consider this: The European Union has banned more than 1,100 chemicals from cosmetics. The United States has banned just nine. Only 11 percent of chemicals used in cosmetics in the United States have been assessed for health and safety-leaving a staggering 89 percent with unknown or undisclosed effects. More than 70 percent of all cosmetics contain…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: New Society Publishers, Limited
Publication date: 10/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Stacy Malkan is Communications Director of Health Care Without Harm and media strategist for the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a national coalition working to eliminate hazardous chemicals from personal care products. Stacy is a former journalist and newspaper publisher who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.



Acknowledgments


Prologue



Indecent Exposure



Not Too Pretty



Because We're Worth It!



Skin Deeper



Beauty Myth Busters



Pinkwashing



Because We're Worth It Too!



Tricks of the Trade



Unmasked



A Healthier Foundation



The Face of the Future



Extreme Makeover


Epilogue


Notes


Index


About the Author