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
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is an American activist group that specializes in research and advocacy in the areas of agricultural subsidies, toxic chemicals, drinking water pollutants, and corporate accountability. EWG is a nonprofit ...
,
Friends of the Earth,
National Black Environmental Justice Network,
National Environmental Trust and
Women's Voices for the Earth.
History
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics consumer campaign began with a campaign over presence of
phthalate
Phthalates (, ), or phthalate esters, are esters of phthalic acid. They are mainly used as plasticizers, i.e., substances added to plastics to increase their flexibility, transparency, durability, and longevity. They are used primarily to soften ...
s, believed to impair fertility and be potentially harmful to developing humans, in cosmetics.
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.
[Cohen, Chavez & Chehimi, p. 239.]
References
* Cone, Marla, “Testing finds traces of carcinogen in bath products”, ''
Los Angeles Times
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'', 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
www.safecosmetics.org
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