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The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is an umbrella coalition of groups with a focus on perceived risks of potentially toxic/dangerous chemicals used in cosmetics.

Founding campaign members include Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, the Breast Cancer Fund, Commonweal, Environmental Working Group, Friends of the Earth, National Black Environmental Justice Network, National Environmental Trust and Women's Voices for the Earth.

History[edit]

The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics consumer campaign began with a campaign over presence of phthalates, believed to impair fertility and be potentially harmful to developing humans, in cosmetics.^[1]

The release of the 2002 report and the succeeding studies that supported its findings prompted a coalition of public health, educational, religious, labor, women's, environmental, and consumer groups to call for consumer health protection from authorities and safer cosmetics from manufacturers.^[2]

References[edit]

^ Cohen, Larry; Chavez, Vivian; Chehimi, Sana (2007). Prevention is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being. San Francisco: John Wiley & sons. p. 239. ISBN 9780787995638.
^ Cohen, Chavez & Chehimi, p. 239.

Cone, Marla, “Testing finds traces of carcinogen in bath products”, Los Angeles Times, 2/9/07. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-bath9feb09,1,2514820.story?coll=la-news-a_section, accessed 12-12-07.
Malkin, Stacy. Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry, New Society Publishers (2007), pp. 23, 25, 38, 41, 45–50, 93, 95–98, 109.

External links[edit]

www.safecosmetics.org

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