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
- Cohen, Larry; Chavez, Vivian; Chehimi, Sana (2007). Prevention is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being. San Francisco: John Wiley & sons. p. 239. ISBN 9780787995638.
- Cohen, Chavez & Chehimi, p. 239.
- Cone, Marla, “Testing finds traces of carcinogen in bath products”, Los Angeles Times, 2/9/07. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-bath9feb09,1,2514820.story?coll=la-news-a_section, accessed 12-12-07.
- Malkin, Stacy. Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry, New Society Publishers (2007), pp. 23, 25, 38, 41, 45–50, 93, 95–98, 109.