Love (and makeup) is a Battlefield
May 10, 2008 by Noel Boehm
Filed under Beauty Products
Over at Grist there’s an interview with Stacy Malkan, of Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. It’s very interesting and she brings up some good points that I have been thinking about lately. What if you don’t have access to “green” products or can’t afford to feed their families solely organic food? I don’t have the answer, it’s just something that’s been bugging me. Anyway check it out and tell me what you think.
Via Grist
I am so thankful and happy that Stacy wrote this newest book about the chemicals in the products we use everyday. As a member of the Cancer Prevention Coalition and Director for the Los Angeles, we have been giving seminars to the public for the past 10 years about this very subject. I had been giving the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics information over the past years, to help them in our fight to get the carcinogens out of the products we use daily. http://www.publicsright2.org
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I disagree with the notion that personal care products, cosmetics, and our food are poisoning us. People are living longer than ever, incidences of cancer are decreasing (http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PRO/content/PRO_1_1_Cancer_Statistics_2008_Presentation.asp), and we’re healthier too.
Any chemical can be dangerous. It all depends on the level of exposure. The California government decided that the lead in lipstick issue was not a significant problem for them to regulate it. And California leads the world in regulation of chemicals.
It’s prudent to minimize your exposure to chemicals but there’s no need to scare people unnecessarily. You are not making yourself safer by the lipstick or other cosmetic you choose to use.
That was an interesting article!