Safer
alternatives are available
See the companies list.
It’s time for cosmetics companies to phase out these
chemicals.
The EU
has already decided to ban two phthalates from cosmetics and
new legislation to tighten controls on cosmetics, REACH
(Registration Evaluation
and Authorisation of Chemicals),
is being considered.
In advance of legislation (REACH and the Cosmetics Directive)
we want the cosmetics companies to show true support for the
'fight' against breast cancer and remove any known or suspected
carcinogen, mutagen or reproductive toxicants.
Some
of the money collected via the sales of ‘pink ribbon’
cosmetics will go into breast cancer research. But how much
of the purchase price and research into what?
In
2002 only 2% of spending on all cancer research in the UK
was on ‘prevention’ and even less on ‘primary
prevention’ i.e. stopping breast cancer before it starts.
How
much of the money you spend on ‘pink ribbon’ cosmetics
will go into investigating and reducing exposure to toxic
chemicals which have been linked to the rising breast cancer
epidemic? |
