They are out to scare you. Don’t worry – I am on the case.
I have spent a lot of time over the last week looking at the coverage of the Story of Cosmetics video in the blogosphere, and sometimes challenging stuff written there. I have to say it wasn’t a particularly productive thing to do. For a start, not many of the things I posted ever appeared. It […]
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I hope I haven’t tried the patience of my UK Twitter followers too much lately with my tweets drawing attention to the shortcomings of the proposed Safe Cosmetics Act which is the brainchild of the arch donation-hungry scaremongers the EWG. It is a very silly bit of legislation which would cost manufacturers and taxpayers a
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There has been a lot of publicity on Twitter recently about a video called the Story of Cosmetics. It is fronted by someone called Annie Leonard in association with an organisation called the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. I am not sure of the precise structure of the affiliations or how it all fits together, but
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Oregon Soap Trail on Twitter asks a question. ‘In reading your beauty pages, I wonder, what is your opinion on the current phthalate controversy?’ This took me back a few years because this was something that was a bit of a hot topic in the UK about 6 or 7 years ago. I remember having
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Should pregnant women avoid fragrances? Probably, but the case isn’t a strong one yet.
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The Daily Mail has published an article by Kate Lock drawing people’s attention to how bad cosmetics are. Kate Lock asks Are Your Beauty Products Killing You? I had never heard of Kate Lock before, so before responding I have tried to find out a bit about her online. She seems to be a journalist.
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