Hello SOSers,

The past couple of days, all over the social media universe, I’ve seen a lot of posts expressing strong emotions towards what’s happening with Komen, Planned Parenthood and, of course, our favorite reoccurring character, money. While clicking around from link to link, I happened to come across this trailer for Pink Ribbons, Inc.

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If you liked The Story of Cosmetics and the messages it conveys, please feel free to share it far and wide! Host a screening at a house party, or classroom, or church group, or neighborhood association or any other location.

To make things easy, we’ve compiled just about everything you need to organize a successful event HERE.

And when you’re done having an awesome screening party, you can drop a pin on the SOS Community Screenings Map!

When we released The Story of Cosmetics a year ago this week to rally support for the Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010, we weren’t terribly

surprised when the Personal Care Products Council—an industry front group—called the movie “a repugnant and absurd shockumentary.” After all, for years the multi-billion dollar cosmetics industry had been largely left alone to decide what was safe to put in their products. You know, things like lead in lipstick. Neurotoxins in body spray. Carcinogens in baby wash.

From www.toxies.com:

If you haven’t heard of “The Toxies”, it’s a satirical awards ceremony highlighting “bad actor chemicals.” This 2nd annual event, created by the statewide coalition Californians for a Healthy and Green Economy (CHANGE) and led by Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles (PSR-LA), has now come together with groups across the country to share the concept of “bad actor chemicals” by bringing them to life with a Hollywood spin.

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If you’re using Chrome or Safari,click the image below to view the annotated script in your browser. Otherwise, you can right-click the image to download it and open with the PDF-viewer of your choice.

If you’re using Chrome or Safari,click the image below to view the annotated script in your browser. Otherwise, you can right-click the image to download it and open with the PDF-viewer of your choice.

If you’re using Chrome or Safari,click the image below to view the annotated script in your browser. Otherwise, you can right-click the image to download it and open with the PDF-viewer of your choice.

Our Creative Commons License permits you to download and share our films for free  so long as you play it in its entirety for non-commercial use. And while sharing our films in full for non-commercial use is free, the production cost and hosting fees are not! Donations in any amount are always appreciated. You can make a secure, tax-deductible on-line contribution via our donation page and help keep this information free. Thanks!

Please be patient, when downloading. Our films are large files.

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Help us spread the word! Feel free to use these images on your site or blog. We just please ask that you link back to us. Simply right-click on your PC or ctrl-click on your Mac to download a zip file of images from each film. This file is 1.5 MB.

This probably comes as no surprise to anyone already in the SOS Community, but a recent study conducted at the University of Washington found that fragranced products, including “green” ones, release many chemicals that are not listed on the label.  Some of said chemicals are even classified as toxic…. FULL POST »

Surprise, surprise:  the big cosmetics companies aren’t such big fans of the Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010—legislation introduced yesterday to more strictly regulate their business—or of our new movie. The Personal Care Products Council went so far as to issue a statement calling The Story of Cosmetics a “repugnant and absurd…shockumentary.” Whoa!

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Lawmakers Debating Whether FDA Should Step Up Regulation of Makeup

By JOYCE FRIEDEN, MedPage Today

July 22, 2010—

Congress and the cosmetics industry are both calling for tighter regulation of the chemicals used in cosmetics and other personal care products due to concerns over possible carcinogens and other toxic ingredients…. FULL POST »

Lead in Lipstick? Coal Tar in Shampoo? As New Bill Calls for Stricter Rules on Beauty Products, a Debate Between Campaign for Safe Cosmetics Founder and Cosmetics Industry Spokesperson

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