Companies: Sign the Compact for Safe Cosmetics
On any given day a consumer may use as many as 25 different cosmetics and personal care products containing more than 200 different chemical compounds.
Consumers want to know that the cosmetics and personal care products they're using are safe. And you can win their confidence, their loyalty - and their market share - by taking a pledge, the Compact for Safe Cosmetics, to formulate the products you manufacture domestically and/or globally to use only ingredients that are not known or suspected of causing cancer, mutation, birth defects or other health harms.
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The EU Cosmetics Directive
In January 2003, the European Union amended its cosmetics directive (76/768/EEC) to ban the use of chemicals that are known or strongly suspected of causing cancer, mutation or birth defects. The amendment went into force in September 2004 and bans carcinogens, reproductive toxins and mutagens from cosmetics. Companies are required to remove these chemicals from cosmetic and personal care products sold in the EU. Since the EU directive requires that all cosmetic products containing toxic chemicals be reformulated for the EU market, we're asking cosmetics companies to make those reformulated products readily available in every market they serve - both domestically and globally.
Benefits of Signing the Pledge
Hundreds of companies have already demonstrated that toxic chemicals are unnecessary to the chemical make-up of products that consumers trust and depend on. We need to hear from businesses, like yours, that place value on providing customers with safe, high quality products.
In our media outreach, through our website and through community forums, we will highlight companies that sign the Compact for Safe Cosmetics in order to promote healthy cosmetics and the companies that produce them. Addressing the problem of harmful chemicals in personal care products is an empty gesture without a clear sense of the solutions and alternatives that are already out there. We look forward to exploring these and other opportunities for collaboration with you!
For more information, contact:
Lisa Archer
Coordinator, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
lisa@breastcancerfund.org
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