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Lipstick: The Price for Pretty Lips May Be Heavy... Metals
Are Your ‘Natural’ Beauty Products Really Natural?
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Pressure Mounts For FDA Decision On Safety Of Triclosan
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Chemicals from Personal Care Products Pervasive in Chicago Air
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2012 New Coverage
How safe are our cosmetics? (video)
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Could Your Shampoo or Body Lotion be Harmful to Your Health?
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Cosmetics Safety: Which Retailers are Naughty and Which are Nice?
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Does Lipstick Contain Lead? ‘GMA’ Tests Lipsticks and Lip Glosses
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Stacy Malkan and Fran Drescher talk safe cosmetics
The proposed Safe Cosmetics Act 2010 could be a boon to green beauty
California sues Brazilian Blowout over high levels of formaldehyde initially found in Oregon
Lead in lipstick not such a myth after all
At some nail salons, feeling pretty and green
Warning: Toxic formaldehyde found in popular hair treatments known as Brazilian Blowouts
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Natural skin care company Weleda backs Safe Cosmetics Act
Ask Umbra addresses environmental links to breast cancer
2011 News Coverage
The Health Cost of Black Women’s Hair Products
Cancer Prevention Coalition: Multiple Carcinogens in Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Shampoo
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Compact for Safe Cosmetics: 321 companies changing the beauty industry
Smelling good without stinking up the environment
Safe Cosmetics: What You Need to Know to Protect Your Health and to Motivate Change
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Campaign Gets Companies To Make Safer Cosmetics
True Beauty: Cosmetics Companies Ban Chemicals, Disclose Ingredients
Campaign gets companies to make safer cosmetics
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Chemical Relaxers: The Facts Might Not Be So Relaxing
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The Scariest Part of Halloween
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Health: Dangers of Halloween Face Paint
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2008 News Coverage
Products That May Reduce Your Risk of Breast Cancer
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Poison perfume: Now less poisonous
Fewer phthalates found in perfume, similar products
Cosmetic companies using fewer plastics additives — report
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Beauty Industry Removing Phthalates from Cosmetics
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Personal care products might contain harmful chemicals
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Mercury in Mascara? Minn. Law Bans It
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Are your products safe? You can't tell.
Some red lipsticks contain unhealthy levels of lead: study
Not Just a Pretty Face
A Poison Kiss: The Problem of Lead in Lipstick
Swear Off Cosmetics Until We Are Sure They Are Safe
Don't Pucker Up: Lead In Lipstick
FDA to Look at Claims of Leaded Lipstick
Lead tests raise red flag for lipsticks
2006 News Coverage
Banned Elsewhere, Compounds Still Used in United States
Will lipstick be safe?
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Three nail polishes drop controversial chemical
The Makeup Industry Gives Itself a Health Hazard Makeover
Cancer lobby group targets nail varnish maker
Is there really no such thing as natural beauty?
Afterglow Cosmetics lashes out over ingredients regulation
Shareholder Network Launched to Curtail Toxics in Products
2005 News Coverage
Study: Unsafe cosmetics may cause cancer
Campaigning For Safe Cosmetics, Tougher FDA
European Parliament OKs Rules on Chemical Safety
Security Guards: Cosmetic safety is goal of Quincy health group
Skin Deep: Is It Organic? Well, Maybe
Is that mascara safe? Go online
New law puts focus on cosmetics ingredients
From an Ingredient In Cosmetics, Toys, A Safety Concern
Citizens Advisers Releases Research Examining EU Rules for the Cosmetics Industry: What They Mean for U.S. Companies, Consumers and Shareholders
Powder flies as backers, foes press positions on cosmetics bill
2004 News Coverage
The downstream dangers of your perfume
A Makeover for the Cosmetics Industry
Toxic Chemicals Left Off Many Product Labels
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