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Toxic Hair Treatments: Lawsuits Settled on Brazilian Blowout; California Attorney General Suit Forces Hazard Warning
Market Shift: Hundreds of Cosmetics Companies Fulfill Safe Products Pledge
Johnson & Johnson Promises to Remove Carcinogens from Baby Products
Toxic Baby Shampoo: Johnson & Johnson Agrees to Global Reformulation Under Pressure from Health Groups
Toxic Pesticide in Summertime Soaps
New Bill to Modernize 1938 Regulations that Allow Harmful Chemicals in Shampoos, Cosmetics
Toxic Heavy Metals Widespread in Cosmetics, New Study Finds
Congressional Leaders to FDA: Protect Public from Toxic Hair Treatments
Beauty Salon Workers in Danger: Toxic Brazilian Blowout
Hundreds of Cosmetic Companies Leading the Market on Safer Products, Consumer Right-to-Know
News Coverage
2012 New Coverage
Brazilian Blowout fallout
Brazilian Blowout: Perfect Case Study for our Broken System
Brazilian Blowout Maker Agrees to Warn Consumers About Formaldehyde
Brazilian Blowout maker settles with state over formaldehyde claim
Brazilian Blowout maker agrees to labeling changes
Brazilian blowout case raises safety concerns
Brazilian Blowout agrees to post formaldehyde warning
‘Skin deep’ in more ways than one
Breaking Brazilian Blowout News
Brazilian Blowout Legally Labeled Carcinogenic ... Will It Matter?
2010 News Coverage
Stacy Malkan and Fran Drescher talk safe cosmetics
The proposed Safe Cosmetics Act 2010 could be a boon to green beauty
California sues Brazilian Blowout over high levels of formaldehyde initially found in Oregon
Lead in lipstick not such a myth after all
At some nail salons, feeling pretty and green
Warning: Toxic formaldehyde found in popular hair treatments known as Brazilian Blowouts
Attorney general targets Brazilian Blowout over chemical
Brazilian Blowout blowup
Natural skin care company Weleda backs Safe Cosmetics Act
Ask Umbra addresses environmental links to breast cancer
2011 News Coverage
The Health Cost of Black Women’s Hair Products
Cancer Prevention Coalition: Multiple Carcinogens in Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Shampoo
Five Things You Should Know About Environmental Links to Breast Cancer
Compact for Safe Cosmetics: 321 companies changing the beauty industry
Smelling good without stinking up the environment
Safe Cosmetics: What You Need to Know to Protect Your Health and to Motivate Change
Campaign for Safe Cosmetics urges makeup companies to update ingredients
Campaign Gets Companies To Make Safer Cosmetics
True Beauty: Cosmetics Companies Ban Chemicals, Disclose Ingredients
Campaign gets companies to make safer cosmetics
2009 News Coverage
Chemical Relaxers: The Facts Might Not Be So Relaxing
Study: Chemicals, pollutants found in newborns
Dr. Oz's Tips for Pregnant Women
Nanotech widespread in cosmetics, report finds
More evidence nanoparticles damage DNA
Trick-or-treaters beware
The Scariest Part of Halloween
Some Face Paints May Contain Lead
Health: Dangers of Halloween Face Paint
Study: Some face paints linked to allergies
2008 News Coverage
Products That May Reduce Your Risk of Breast Cancer
Government Fails to Assess Potential Dangers of Nanotechnology
Poison perfume: Now less poisonous
Fewer phthalates found in perfume, similar products
Cosmetic companies using fewer plastics additives — report
Good phthalate news & top green lip balms
Beauty Industry Removing Phthalates from Cosmetics
GirlTalk podcast with Mia Davis of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
Not Cosmetic Accusations
Personal care products might contain harmful chemicals
2007 News Coverage
Mercury in Mascara? Minn. Law Bans It
Product Safety Debate
Are your products safe? You can't tell.
Some red lipsticks contain unhealthy levels of lead: study
Not Just a Pretty Face
A Poison Kiss: The Problem of Lead in Lipstick
Swear Off Cosmetics Until We Are Sure They Are Safe
Don't Pucker Up: Lead In Lipstick
FDA to Look at Claims of Leaded Lipstick
Lead tests raise red flag for lipsticks
2006 News Coverage
Banned Elsewhere, Compounds Still Used in United States
Will lipstick be safe?
Nail Polish Makers Yield on Disputed Chemical
Chemicals linked to cancer removed from some nail polish lines
Three nail polishes drop controversial chemical
The Makeup Industry Gives Itself a Health Hazard Makeover
Cancer lobby group targets nail varnish maker
Is there really no such thing as natural beauty?
Afterglow Cosmetics lashes out over ingredients regulation
Shareholder Network Launched to Curtail Toxics in Products
2005 News Coverage
Study: Unsafe cosmetics may cause cancer
Campaigning For Safe Cosmetics, Tougher FDA
European Parliament OKs Rules on Chemical Safety
Security Guards: Cosmetic safety is goal of Quincy health group
Skin Deep: Is It Organic? Well, Maybe
Is that mascara safe? Go online
New law puts focus on cosmetics ingredients
From an Ingredient In Cosmetics, Toys, A Safety Concern
Citizens Advisers Releases Research Examining EU Rules for the Cosmetics Industry: What They Mean for U.S. Companies, Consumers and Shareholders
Powder flies as backers, foes press positions on cosmetics bill
2004 News Coverage
The downstream dangers of your perfume
A Makeover for the Cosmetics Industry
Toxic Chemicals Left Off Many Product Labels
More Than Cosmetic
Look Good, Get Cancer?
Household Toxic Chemicals Not Adequately Regulated
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