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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 338.4766855 EAN: 9780865715745 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0865715742 Label: New Society Publishers Manufacturer: New Society Publishers Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: November 01, 2007 Publisher: New Society Publishers Studio: New Society Publishers Editorial Review: Product Description: Lead in lipstick? 1,4 dioxane in baby soap? Coal tar in shampoo? How is this possible? Simple. The $35 billion cosmetics industry is so powerful they’ve kept themselves unregulated for decades. Not Just a Pretty Face chronicles the quest that led a group of health and environmental activists to the world’s largest cosmetics companies to ask some tough questions:
As doors slammed in their faces and the beauty myth peeled away, the industry’s toxic secrets began to emerge. This scathing investigation peels away less-than-lovely layers to expose an industry in dire need of an extreme makeover. The good news is that while the major multinational companies fight for their right to use hazardous chemicals, entrepreneurs are developing safer non-toxic technologies and building businesses on the values of health, justice and personal empowerment. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Very, Very EnlighteningMy wife and I found the book to be very enlightening. People of all ages should read especially those who use make-up, prospective mothers, those pregnant, teen-agers, and folks with children, and members of government and people who just need to or should know about cosmetic industry, its potentially harmful effects of use and lack of protective health regulation. We found the book riveting and to be honest a little scary, especially with our having three grand daughters. Rating: - The Shocking TruthA friend picked up this book to read with her older sister one day. Less than three monthes later, the pair started their own e-business called The Nature Of Beauty-- carrying all organic cosmetic lines. The truth, exposed in Not Just A Pretty Face shocked them, so they decided to fill the hole in the market for products that contain none of the chemicals mentioned in this book. She promptly gave this book to me to read after infoming me of her new business, and I finished it in one night! Not Just ... Read More Rating: - Great Book with useful information!This book was great! It was very interesting. I couldn't put it down. It gives you a great insight into how big cosmetic companies really think. Rating:  - excellent layperson's overviewFirst let me put my biases up front. I do not like the cosmetics industry. I do not like the petroleum industry and I certainly do not like the advertising industry. Having said that, let me try and and provide a constructive review. This is a book that proposes to expose the seedy underside of the cosmetics industry. It is very readable and "user friendly". I read it from cover to cover in just a few days and in every chapter learned/was repulsed by something new. Given my ... Read More Rating: - A MUST READ!THIS IS NOT JUST ABOUT MAKEUP, IT IS ABOUT THE PRODUCTS WE USE ON ON BODIES! I COULDN'T PUT THE BOOK DOWN. |
