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Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010 could eliminate toxins in cosmetics

If passed, the Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010 could make many beauty products a whole lot safer—and give you the chance to make a wise purchasing decision. Here are the top ways the proposal would clamp down on the cosmetics industry:

• Under current legislation, cosmetics companies can use nearly any ingredient in cosmetics, even those linked to serious health problems. This act aims to eliminate potential carcinogens, along with ingredients linked to birth defects, that appear in everything from shampoo to lipgloss.

• Demand safety standards for all ingredients to protect children

• Require stricter labeling guidelines, requiring companies not only to list all ingredients, including fragrances

• Provide funding to the FDA Office of Cosmetics and Colors so that it can regulate the industry

• Provide worker's with access to information about harmful ingredients they may be working with

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It has been brought to my attention that some of this Act of 2010 would basically put small business out of business. These are many of the companies who willingly have used safe and natural ingredients in the first place. Therefore I will not be supporting this action...unless you can convince me otherwise. From what I have read and heard it is just the addition of more big long words that no one knows as stated in the video. The use of the INCI name is meaningless to most consumers and is how a lot of bigger companies have been able to hide the actual content of their products, The average consumer has no idea what all that means. I can remember the first time I saw the name for shea butter ...I thought what in the heck is that?
Instead of allowing big companies that I am sure by now figured that if this passes they will have to clean up their act. So now they have gotten involved and want to make sure that it now becomes so complicated that it will run all their small competitors out of business. I am all for safe ingredients but I will be getting in contact with my congressman And SENATORS just in case, because I have as many other small natural lovers spent many hours and money reading and studying to make safe products. I have planned to go to school for more training , but this act will put me out of business before I ever even start.
Did your cause suddenly blind you to the consequences to the smaller people.. I hope that is not true. I feel like if labels were simply the name of the ingredients as they are more well known by the consumer would be much for helpful for the person who wants to read the label and decide. Ex; unrefined shea butter, extra virgin coconut oil ,essential oils of neem ,tea tree, lavendar ,etc. You get the picture.
One who had supported your cause , but not this bill as it reads now.
Jennifer Barkand

By jennifer Barkand (not verified)  on Feb 22, 2011

I do not trust the FDA. I saw in another article on your website that the FDA isn't required to test for the safety of the products. That's quite obvious because there have been products that are FDA approved and then later on the products get recalled. So if the FDA isn't required to test the products what makes you think they actually do?

By Anonymous (not verified)  on Apr 21, 2012
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