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Not Just a Pretty Face
Stacy Malkan
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Description for Not Just a Pretty Face
Paperback. The girls' guide to giving the cosmetics industry a makeover. Num Pages: 192 pages, 10 B&W illustrations and photographs. BIC Classification: JFFT; KNSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 318.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
New Society Publishers United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Gabriola Island, United States
ISBN
9780865715745
SKU
V9780865715745
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Stacy Malkan
Stacy Malkan is communications director of Health Care Without Harm, and a media strategist and cofounding member of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a national coalition working to eliminate hazardous chemicals from personal care products. Stacy is a former journalist and newspaper publisher, and a longtime environmental health advocate who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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