Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry
By:
Stacy Malkan
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Lead in lipstick? 1,4 dioxane in baby soap? Coal tar in shampoo? How is this possible? Simple. The $35 billion cosmetics industry is so powerful they’ve kept themselves unregulated for decades. Not Just a Pretty Face chronicles the quest that led a group of health and environmental activists to the world’s largest cosmetics companies to ask some tough questions: - Why do companies market themselves as pink ribbon leaders in the fight against breast cancer, yet use hormone-disrupting and carcinogenic chemicals that may contribute to that very disease?
- Why do products used by men and women of childbearing age contain chemicals linked to birth defects and infertility?
As doors slammed in their faces and the beauty myth peeled away, the industry’s toxic secrets began to emerge. This scathing investigation peels away less-than-lovely layers to expose an industry in dire need of an extreme makeover. The good news is that while the major multinational companies fight for their right to use hazardous chemicals, entrepreneurs are developing safer non-toxic technologies and building businesses on the values of health, justice and personal empowerment.
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Customer Review: 4 out of 5
Informative - This book is very informative. It makes you more aware of the products that you use and the materials that are in them.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
One of the best books i've read on the subject - I read A LOT of books on this subject, and related subjects, due to my occupation. This is one of the best I've read. It's an easy read, and quite eye opening for most people. Everyone should read this book!
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Empowering - This book has drastically changed what I look for in beauty and health products and has made me more informed, conscious and skeptical as a consumer. I always assumed that anything that could be sold in grocery, department, and other legitimate stores in the U.S. would have to be safe, but this book has shown me how untrue that assumption is. Some might be tempted to pass on reading this because, as I've done in the past, they assume that anyone who buys into these types of theories about the significant dangers of widely-used products (or widely-occurring actions, events, etc.) is probably gullible, uninformed, over-dramatic and/or bored. In reality, however, the arguments put forth in this book are rational, reasonable, substantiated and, I believe, would make a lot of sense to most intelligent readers. For instance, the author points out that common brands of everything from shampoo to toothpaste to nail polish to cologne (and thousands of other household items) currently sold in the U.S. contain ingredients that the E.U. has banned due to all the research showing they are unhealthy. Malkan argues that the fact that these ingredients continue to be allowed has a lot to do with the Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association (CTFA), the organization that is supposed to be regulating these, consisting (entirely, I believe) of representatives from the cosmetics and beauty industry. I could spend pages elaborating on the other helpful and eye-opening information in this book, but it would be better to just read it yourself.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Things I never knew about make-up - What an eye opener. I now use the website Skin Deep all the time to check products before I buy. I am trying to discard products that I have always used and replacing them with non-toxic products. A must read. Especially if you have children. You need to start out fresh. Worth the read. I have already passed it along to a friend.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Not Just a Pretty Face; The ugly side of he Beauty Industry - Wow! What an eye opener. I have since tossed all of my cosmetics and shampoos, conditioners etc. I met Stacy (the author) at a Xango convention and now am a distributor for their products. She endorses them so I firmly believe in her and her endorsement. The book itself arrived quickly and I wouldn't have known it had been used. If you'd like to reach me for any questions (no solicitation) about the book and the products go to[...]. Have a SAFE DAY!
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