Overview and Table of Contents:
Toxic chemicals are widespread in beauty products - and in our bodies. Not Just a Pretty Face covers the latest news about the science and politics of chemicals in personal care products, and offers an inside look at the five-year campaign by environmental and health groups to pressure the US cosmetics industry to use safer ingredients. The book delves into the dark side of the beauty industry and looks to hopeful solutions for a healthier future.
1. Indecent Exposure: Are cosmetic chemicals getting into you? What the latest science tells us about the links between chemicals and disease.
2. Not Too Pretty: The detective search for chemicals suspected of causing birth defects in shampoo, deodorant, fragrance and hair spray.
3. Because We’re Worth It!: Breast cancer activists and environmentalists ask the world’s largest cosmetics companies to stop using chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects.
4. Skin Deeper: What else is in cosmetics? Environmental Working Group builds the world’s first database of toxic ingredients in personal care products, Skin Deep.
5. Beauty Myth Busters: From the “whitening trend” in Asia to the airbrushed models in the ads, the beauty industry sells toxic dreams around the world.
6. Pinkwashing: What the pink-ribbon marketing campaigns don’t tell you about carcinogens, hormone disruptors and strategies to prevent breast cancer.
7. Because We’re Worth it Too!: Teens and beauty queens take on California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the world’s largest nail products manufacturer.
8. Tricks of the Trade: The beauty industry gears up for a backlash.
9. Unmasked: Behind the scenes of Big Beauty… The author goes undercover to the largest cosmetics industry conference of the year to learn about the industry’s plans to launch a PR and lobbying campaign to keep itself unregulated.
10. A Healthier Foundation: The good news is, scientists and entrepreneurs are innovating safer products and building businesses on the values of health, justice and personal empowerment.
11. The Face of the Future: Green chemistry, green politics and the hopeful face of the new future.
12. Extreme Makeover: Giving the Cosmetics Industry and the Government a Makeover! What you can do.
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