CAMPAIGN FOR SAFE COSMETICS
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.
Personal care products are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or any other government agency. As a result, of the more than 10,000 chemical ingredients found in personal care products -- everything from shampoo to nail polish to after shave -- 89% have not undergone safety testing. Many of these chemicals have found their way into our bodies, our breast milk and our children. With breast cancer, birth defects and other health problems on the rise, there is no reason for these chemicals to be in our products.
Since WVE helped launch the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics in 2004, tens of thousands of concerned consumers have demanded the beauty industry clean up their act and remove toxic ingredients from products. The Campaign is making great progress because of the support we have received from consumers like you.
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Click here to learn more about the Campaign. |
TAKE ACTION!
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Despite label claims like “gentle” and “pure,” dozens of top-selling children’s bath products are contaminated with the cancer-causing chemicals formaldehyde and 1,4-dioxane. For more information, read the new report co-released by Women's Voices for the Earth and the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. |
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The FDA still has not released any data on its own lipstick tests or taken any action to protect people from dangerous ingredients in cosmetic products. Click here and demand the FDA take action on lead in lipstick. |
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Ask Bath and Body Works to stop using toxic chemicals in their products! |
RESOURCES
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Click here for reports on chemicals in cosmetics. |
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Find out how your favorite products rate in the Skin Deep database |
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Read Not Just a Pretty Face to learn about the dark side of the beauty industry. |
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WVE help found the National Healthy Nail Salon Alliance to address workplace exposure to toxic chemicals in nail products. Click here to learn more. |