Campaign for Safe Cosmetics

The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is an umbrella coalition of groups with a focus on perceived risks of chemicals used in cosmetics.

Founding campaign members include Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, the Breast Cancer Fund, Commonweal, Environmental Working Group, Friends of the Earth, National Black Environmental Justice Network, National Environmental Trust and Women's Voices for the Earth.

History

The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics consumer campaign began with a campaign over presence of phthalates, believed to impair fertility and be potentially harmful to developing humans, in cosmetics.[1]

The release of the 2002 report and the succeeding studies that supported its findings prompted a coalition of public health, educational, religious, labor, women's, environmental, and consumer groups to call for consumer health protection from authorities and safer cosmetics from manufacturers.[2]

References

  1. Cohen, Larry; Chavez, Vivian; Chehimi, Sana (2007). Prevention is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being. San Francisco: John Wiley & sons. p. 239. ISBN 9780787995638.
  2. Cohen, Chavez & Chehimi, p. 239.
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