Tell Congress to Support Safer Beauty for All!
We all deserve personal care and beauty products free from cancer-causing and other harmful chemicals, no matter where we live, work, or shop.
Send a letter urging your congressional representative to support Safer Beauty for All!
Right now, companies can legally sell make-up and personal care products with chemicals that can cause serious harm to our health and our environment. From cancer-causing asbestos in baby powder to hormone-disrupting phthalates in body wash to brain-damaging lead in lipstick, we are all at risk.
The following bills will close critical gaps in cosmetic safety that affect everyone, especially women of color and professional salon workers. This much-needed legislation will:
1. Ban the worst first. Ban 11 of the most toxic chemicals, including mercury, formaldehyde, parabens, phthalates, and phenylenediamines (hair dye chemicals). California, Maryland, and the EU already ban these chemicals. Learn more
2. Defend the health of women of color and salon workers. These two vulnerable populations are among the most highly exposed to toxic chemicals because of the products marketed to them or commonly found in their workplaces. Learn more
3. Reveal fragrance ingredients. Require the disclosure of the secret, unlabeled, and often toxic fragrance and flavor chemicals in our personal care products on product labels and websites for both retail consumer products and professional salon products. Learn more
4. Ensure supply chain transparency. So that cosmetics companies can get the information they need from their upstream suppliers to make safer products. Learn more
5. Ban PFAS. Including the entire class of PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ (per- and polyfluorinated substances) from personal care and beauty products sold in the United States. Five states have already banned intentionally-added PFAS from cosmetics – California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, and Minnesota – and other states have regulatory frameworks that could phase out the use of PFAS in cosmetics. Learn more
Your voice matters. Tell your congressional representative to support Safer Beauty for All!
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