The Story of Cosmetics Notes
- Cosmetic items link to asthma, cancer, learning disabilities, damaged sperm
- Average woman in U.S uses about 12 personal care products daily
- Average man uses about 6 daily
- Less than 20% of chemicals have been assessed for safety
- Chemicals in cosmetics are getting into humans
- Babies are being born pre-polluted
- Big cosmetic companies say the doses of poison products that are small are harmless
- Companies are sending the wrong message in their products
- Companies set up own committee to self police their products
- Real action is the people working to change the system
- Makers use toxins and forget about human health impacts
- No laws to get rid of chemical problems in cosmetics
- They banned only 8 out of over 12,000 chemicals in cosmetics since 1937
- FDA also doesn't require all the chemicals be listed on labels
- Cosmetics industry is making the rules and decide whether or not to follow them
- It's a whole broken system ignoring 'toxics in, toxics out'
- Neurotoxins/reproductive toxins which are proven to mess up brain development and reproduction
- Smarter laws would help companies find safer ways for their products
- "Green" chemists are designing products that are safe and nontoxic
- We think we are making an environmentally friendly choice but we're not, we're being lied to