Posts Tagged ‘Campaign for Safe Cosmetics’
Diabetes Risk Factors Include Obesity, Family History, and… Cosmetics?
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), if current trends continue, by 2050, one in three U.S. adults will have diabetes. Today, the disease is the leading cause of new cases of blindness, kidney failure, and limb amputations not related to accidents or injuries. In fact, a person with diabetes has a [...]
Lead-Stick Beware — Winner of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics Contest
Monday, June 18th, 2012Here is the video winner from the “Kiss Lead Goodbye! Contest” sponsored by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. Here are more details about this contest from their website: “It came down to just a few votes, but the Kiss Lead Goodbye! contest has a winner: congratulations to Iona Pelovska from Toronto! Iona’s video was part [...]
The FDA Finds Lead in 400 Lipsticks—How to Protect Yourself
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012It was about five years ago that the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics found lead in nearly two-thirds of the 33 brands of lipstick they tested, at levels up to 0.65 parts per million (ppm). Now, according to a recent FDA analysis, 400 shades of popular brands of lipstick contain trace amounts of lead—with the highest [...]
