Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health ... and What You Can Do about It

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BenBella Books, 2009 - Business & Economics - 283 pages
Anti-aging products are the fastest growing sector of the cosmetics industry as women and men are becoming rapidly more obsessed with looking and feeling young. Splashy ads and commercials are everywhere we turn, promising to keep our appearances fresh and our partners satisfied.

But do consumers really know what they're applying to their faces and bodies in their quests for youth and beauty? Do they know the health risks they're taking by simply applying lipstick, face moisturizer or deodorant? Toxic beauty products clutter the shelves at retail stores everywhere, and consumers don't know the avoidable risks they're taking by following a simple beauty regimen.

Written by Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, a founder and chairperson of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, Healthy Beauty gives the lowdown on salon safety, health risks hiding in everyday products, how we put our children in danger and more. Healthy Beauty will also educate you and your family on easily implemented solutions through the use of a variety of positive alternatives.

In Healthy Beauty, you will learn:
* How beauty products can affect your children before they're born
* The brutal carelessness producers use when creating products for women and children
* The risks taken when you step into a salon
* Toxins in men's products such as deodorant, cologne and aftershave
* How to protect yourself and your family by reading labels and identifying potentially hazardous ingredients

Through the help of Dr. Epstein and Healthy Beauty, you can protect yourself from the possible long-term effects of a simple beauty product.

About the author (2009)

Samuel Stanley Epstein was born in Middlesbrough, England on April 13, 1926. He received a bachelor's degree in physiology and medical degrees from the University of London. After immigrating to the United States in 1960, he conducted research at the Children's Cancer Research Foundation before joining the faculty of Case Western University Medical School in 1971. He taught at the Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine and School of Public Health at the University of Illinois from 1976 until 1999. He focused his career on preventing cancer. He helped draft the federal Toxic Substances Control and Resource Conservation Recovery Acts in the mid-1970s. He wrote several books including The Politics of Cancer. He received the Albert Schweitzer Golden Grand Medal for Humanitarianism in 2005. He died of cardiac arrest on March 18, 2018 at the age of 91. Samuel S. Epstein, MD, is the professor emeritus of environmental and occupational medicine at the School of Public Health in Chicago. He is founder and chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition and has been awarded the Albert Schweitzer Golden Grand Medal. He is the author ofCancer-GateandUnreasonable Riskand the coauthor ofThe Safe Shopper’s Bible. His televised appearances include60 Minutes,Good Morning America,Meet the Press, and theTodayshow. He lives in Chicago.Randall Fitzgeraldis a journalist and the author ofThe Hundred Year Lie: How Food and Medicine Are Destroying Your Health. He lives in West Linn, Oregon.

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