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!
posted by 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.
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posted by 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….
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Excerpt of article written by Annie Leonard & Stacy Malkan for the Huffington Post…
posted by Major loopholes in U.S. federal law allow the $50 billion beauty industry to put unlimited amounts of chemicals into personal care products with no required testing, no monitoring of health effects and inadequate labeling requirements—making cosmetics among the least-regulated consumer products on the market….
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