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Lead in Lipstick? Require FDA Regulation of Ingredients in Cosmetics!
Target: US Congress
Sponsored by: Care2.com
Sponsored by: Care2.com
Every morning, millions of women and teenage girls could be putting their health at risk as they unknowingly expose themselves to toxins - including lead - that may lead to reproductive birth defects, infertility and cancer. According to the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, of all the chemicals used in cosmetics, nearly 900 are toxic. In fact, 450 ingredients that are used in the U.S. are banned for use in cosmetics in the European Union! In spite of all this, the Food and Drug Administration doesn't regulate bath and beauty products before they hit the market. Most readily available makeup is loaded with chemicals that are either untested for long-term effects on our health, or have already been proven to have potentially harmful qualities! As they set their priorities for 2008, urge Congress to require the FDA to adequately regulate ingredients used in our personal care products!
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We signed the “Lead in Lipstick? Require FDA Regulation of Ingredients in Cosmetics!” petition!
# 8,325:
5:05 pm PDT, Sep 4,
Name not displayed, Texas
# 8,324:
1:47 pm PDT, Sep 4,
Karen Multer, North Carolina
# 8,323:
8:25 am PDT, Aug 30,
Kelsey Kutter, Minnesota
we just deserve safe cosmetics!!
we just deserve safe cosmetics!!
# 8,322:
3:34 pm PDT, Aug 29,
Name not displayed, California
# 8,321:
9:38 am PDT, Aug 26,
Name not displayed, Michigan
Our congrssmen were voted in to protect us from bad chemical ingedients, but we are getting all the bad chemical, even our babies unborn. Our health is at risk.
Our congrssmen were voted in to protect us from bad chemical ingedients, but we are getting all the bad chemical, even our babies unborn. Our health is at risk.
# 8,320:
7:34 am PDT, Aug 14,
Lucha Campos, Indiana
Women are the source of life. They need to stay pretty and healthy. Without happy women life doesn't work.
Women are the source of life. They need to stay pretty and healthy. Without happy women life doesn't work.
# 8,319:
9:22 am PDT, Aug 10,
Lindsay Kearns, West Virginia
# 8,318:
8:40 am PDT, Aug 10,
Andi Alnwick, New York
# 8,317:
5:55 pm PDT, Aug 4,
Matthew Smith, South Carolina
# 8,316:
8:11 pm PDT, Aug 2,
Name not displayed, Maryland
# 8,315:
6:14 am PDT, Jul 31,
Laura Campanelli, Florida
# 8,314:
7:45 pm PDT, Jul 26,
Marvin Rodriguez, Texas
# 8,313:
6:33 pm PDT, Jul 24,
Jan Sadauskas, Washington
# 8,312:
8:27 am PDT, Jul 24,
Debra Pozen, Illinois
Stop the deception going on in the regulation of products such as toxins in our cosmetics. Word is spreading that those in the FDA are being paid off by big business to protect big business bottom lines. FDA does not operate in the best interests of the people and those in the FDA that stand up and tell the truth are fired.
Stop the deception going on in the regulation of products such as toxins in our cosmetics. Word is spreading that those in the FDA are being paid off by big business to protect big business bottom lines. FDA does not operate in the best interests of the people and those in the FDA that stand up and tell the truth are fired.
# 8,311:
5:25 pm PDT, Jul 22,
Jen McConville, North Carolina
So many in the U.S. put a blind faith in the offices responsible for regulating safe products. I am horrified more everyday about things that I find to be true about dangerous toxins and chemicals that are allowed in so many products. Beauty is a big industry and is pushed on young girls and women everyday, to look their very best. Knowing that something as harmful as lead is being allowed in products that we wear on our faces is disgusting!!! Our skin absorbs it, via lipstick, we ingest it and so on. There must be safer alternatives in the making of cosmetics. I have personally stopped wearing make-up. We all have someone that we love dearly that wears this stuff... it would break many hearts to find that they are dying due to the failure of responsible decision making in public health.
So many in the U.S. put a blind faith in the offices responsible for regulating safe products. I am horrified more everyday about things that I find to be true about dangerous toxins and chemicals that are allowed in so many products. Beauty is a big industry and is pushed on young girls and women everyday, to look their very best. Knowing that something as harmful as lead is being allowed in products that we wear on our faces is disgusting!!! Our skin absorbs it, via lipstick, we ingest it and so on. There must be safer alternatives in the making of cosmetics. I have personally stopped wearing make-up. We all have someone that we love dearly that wears this stuff... it would break many hearts to find that they are dying due to the failure of responsible decision making in public health.
# 8,310:
9:29 am PDT, Jul 20,
Name not displayed, Florida
# 8,309:
8:44 am PDT, Jul 20,
Kathryn Paddock, California
# 8,308:
11:27 pm PDT, Jul 19,
Terri Ybarbo, Texas
PLEASE REQUIRE COSMETIC COMPANIES TO REGULATE PUTTING TOXIC SUBSTANCES IN OUR MAKE-UP.
PLEASE REQUIRE COSMETIC COMPANIES TO REGULATE PUTTING TOXIC SUBSTANCES IN OUR MAKE-UP.
# 8,307:
1:29 pm PDT, Jul 17,
Greta Malkotzoglou, Greece
# 8,306:
1:00 pm PDT, Jul 15,
Sera Diaz, California
# 8,305:
10:47 am PDT, Jul 11,
Jodi Middlebrook, Arizona
# 8,304:
2:16 pm PDT, Jul 6,
Sonja Helman, Maryland
# 8,303:
6:33 pm PDT, Jun 29,
J.s. Jones, New York
# 8,302:
3:45 pm PDT, Jun 9,
Kristina Long, California
# 8,301:
10:49 am PDT, Jun 9,
Nina Rosas, California