Not Just a Pretty Face

The Dark Side of the Beauty Industry

By: Stacy Malkan

Narrated by: Ann Richardson

Lead in lipstick? 1,4-Dioxane in baby soap? Coal tar in shampoo? How is this possible? Simple. The $35 billion cosmetics industry is so powerful they've kept themselves unregulated for decades. Not Just a Pretty Face chronicles the quest that led a group of health and environmental activists to the world's largest cosmetics companies to ask some tough questions:

• Why do companies market themselves as pink ribbon leaders in the fight against breast cancer, yet use hormone-disrupting and carcinogenic chemicals that may contribute to that very disease?
• Why do products used by men and women of childbearing age contain chemicals linked to birth defects and infertility?

As doors slammed in their faces and the beauty myth peeled away, the industry's toxic secrets began to emerge. This scathing investigation peels away less-than-lovely layers to expose an industry in dire need of an extreme makeover. The good news is that while the major multinational companies fight for their right to use hazardous chemicals, entrepreneurs are developing safer non-toxic technologies and building businesses on the values of health, justice, and personal empowerment.

©2007 Stacy Malkan (P)2015 Post Hypnotic Press, Inc.

Eye opening

Think US companies have our best interest at heart? Think again. Listen to this. Excellent information.

Treasury of pretty cool ideas for safer options in cosmetics and lifestyle!

Just the data bases in the text boxes make it worth buying the book! Stacy gives so many examples of dangerous things we actually pay money to bring into our own homes and our bodies, which have safer alternatives already or require green chemistry to create such alternatives. All we need is awareness and demand! This book is a great aide for raising both.

beware of chemicals

couldn't finish, found it to be quite scary about all the chemicals, rather not know