The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
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Herbal Essences: A Totally Chemical Experience
With a name like Herbal Essences, one might think that these products contain natural ingredients. Not so!
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Did you know that only 11 percent of all personal care products are tested for safety, and that many contain carcinogens and other toxic chemicals?
The FDA has no authority to regulate the personal care products you use every day. That's where the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics comes in.
The Breast Cancer Fund is a founding member and leading partner in the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a coalition working to protect your health by calling for the elimination of chemicals used in the cosmetics industry linked to cancer, birth defects and other health problems.
What's New?
In April, Breast Cancer Fund and 20 other organizations urged mutual funds to support shareholder resolutions in effort to highlight the health risks of nanomaterials in Avon's cosmetics and pesticides produced by Dow. Read the letter sent to 38 mutual funds.
What You Can Do
Whether you have a few minutes or a few hours, the Campaign can use your help. By educating yourself, making smarter choices and getting involved in outreach and legislative efforts, you can make a difference.
Start now and join the Campaign today.
Cosmetics and Breast Carcinogens
Breast carcinogens have no place in cosmetics and personal care products. Yet despite growing concern from consumers, the U.S. government does not systematically assess the safety of personal care products, and major U.S. companies continue to market cosmetics with known and suspected carcinogens, mutagens and reproductive toxins.
Learn more, and find out where breast carcinogens are found »
States Making Change
In a landmark advance in the safety of cosmetics products, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the California Safe Cosmetics Act into law in October 2005. The Breast Cancer Fund played a key role in its passage, and now guides other states who want to pass their own legislation.
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