Common cosmetics use can negatively impact the environment as well as the user.
Women News Network
May 29, 2013
While natural body-care products represent the fastest growing segment of the cosmetics market, your local pharmacy shelves are still full of products laden with toxic chemicals linked to cancer and reproductive harm.
To address this problem, today, U.S. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-Illinois), and Congressman Ed Markey D-Massachusetts), introduced the Safe Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Act of 2013, which would give the Food and Drug Administration authority to ensure that all personal care products are free of harmful ingredients. Existing law, which has not been significantly updated since 1938, has loopholes that allow chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects, learning disabilities and other illnesses in products we use on our bodies every day.
