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Toxic Beauty : How Cosmetics and Personal-Care Products Endanger Your Health... and What You Can Do About It.
Title:
Toxic Beauty : How Cosmetics and Personal-Care Products Endanger Your Health... and What You Can Do About It.
Author:
Epstein, Samuel S.
ISBN:
9781935251200
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (229 pages)
Contents:
Praise -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART ONE - How Our Products Got Toxic -- 1 - History's Beauty Industry Influences -- A New Cleopatra -- As Synthetics Multiplied, So Did Health Problems -- 2 - The Chemical Threat to Your Health -- Your Skin Is a Carrier, Not a Barrier -- What We Know and How We Know It -- The Vulnerability of Children -- Types of Carcinogens -- A Roadmap of Chemical Dangers -- 3 - Losing the Winnable Cancer War -- The Folly of "Damage Control" -- Cancer Risks from Smoking Versus Personal-Care Product Use -- 4 - You Lost Your "Right to Know" -- Mounting Criticisms of the FDA -- What Protection Does Labeling Afford Us? -- PART TWO - Identifying Product Dangers -- 5 - Products Targeting Infants and Children -- From Mother to Fetus and Child -- "Gender Bender" Chemical Effects -- The Six Families of Hormone Disrupters -- Safe Products for Infants and Children -- 6 - Products Targeting Women -- Perfume-Cupid's Arrow, or a Poison Dart? -- Talcum Powder and Your Risk of Cancer -- What Is Really in Your Lipstick? -- Safe Products for Women -- 7 - Products Targeting Beauty and Nail Salons -- The Problem with Hair Dyes -- A Closer Look at Nail Salons -- Some Needed Reforms -- Safe Products and Ingredients for Beauty and Nail Salons -- 8 - Products Targeting Sun Worshippers -- What Sunscreens Do -- What Sunscreens Don't Do -- More Problems with Sunscreens -- Why Are Nanoparticles in Sun Protection Products? -- An Emerging Regulatory Nightmare -- Safe Products and Ingredients for Sun Worshippers -- 9 - Products Targeting Youth Seekers -- Skin Peelers -- Twelve Categories of Cosmeceutical Ingredients -- 10 - Products Targeting Everyone -- What Is Really in Your Air Freshener? -- What Is Really in Your Shampoo and Conditioner? -- What Is Really in Your Deodorant or Antiperspirant?.

What Is Really in Your Toothpaste? -- What Is Really in Your Soap and Cleanser? -- Safe Products and Ingredients For Everyone -- PART THREE - Getting Us Out of Danger -- 11 - Reforming the Cosmetics and Personal-Care Products Industry -- There Are Safer Options -- Needed Reforms -- California Pioneers U.S. Legislative Change -- Europe's Seventh Amendment -- Problems with the Seventh Amendment -- More European Safety Regulations -- Safety Regulations in Other Countries -- 12 - Two Healthy Trends in Your Future -- Green Chemistry Means Safer Chemistry -- Organics Emerge as Safe, Price-Competitive Alternatives -- Principal Categories of Organic Cosmetics and Personal-Care Products -- What Does Organic Certification Mean? -- Organic Certification Standards -- The Organic Trade Association Deceives Consumers -- 13 - A Guide to Protecting You and Your Family -- Four Deadly but Avoidable Killers -- Deciphering Product Labels -- Tips for Choosing Safe Products and Alternatives -- Strategies to Protect Your Health -- The Bottom Line -- APPENDICES -- REFERENCES -- Acknowledgements -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- Copyright Page.
Abstract:
Splashy ads and commercials for personal care products are everywhere we turn, promising to keep our appearances fresh and our partners satisfied. But do consumers really know what they're applying to their faces and bodies in their quests for youth and beauty? Do they know the health risks they're taking by simply applying lipstick, face moisturizer or deodorant? Toxic cosmetics and personal care products clutter the shelves at retail stores everywhere, and consumers don't know the avoidable risks they're taking by following a simple beauty regimen. Written by Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, a founder and chairperson of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, Toxic Beauty gives the lowdown on salon safety, health risks hiding in everyday products, how we put our children in danger and more. Toxic Beauty will also educate you and your family on easily implemented solutions through the use of a variety of positive alternatives. Through the help of Dr. Epstein and Toxic Beauty, you can protect yourself from the possible long-term effects of a simple beauty product.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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