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Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010 Introduced in U.S. Congress

22nd July, 2010 - Posted by carsi - No Comments

Recently, I looked into how green and non-toxic my cosmetics are and wasn’t too happy with the conclusion. As it turns out, a lot of people are also starting to discover that their cosmetics and beauty products have all sorts of weird and toxic chemicals in them. Annie Leonard, creator of the Story of Stuff and the Story of Bottled Water, put out a new video on this topic, the Story of Cosmetics:

Scary, right? Luckily, just this week, Reps. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc., introduced the Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010, which would “require all ingredients in a cosmetic product to be listed on the product’s label and would give the Secretary of Health and Human Services two years to develop a list of prohibited or restricted ingredients.” Let’s hope this bill passes so that the burden isn’t on consumers to seek out non-toxic products. Until then, use the Environmental Working Group’s Cosmetic Safety Database to find the products out there with the least amount of chemicals.