Hundreds of chemicals, many carcinogenic, lace the cosmetics we place on our faces, lips, hair and teeth. Unlike food products, they're largely untested. Yes, they're in trace amounts, but they accumulate over decades and they appear in our children from birth. Join us to examine what we're putting on us that are also going in us-- and to what effect.
This program was funded by The Park Foundation.
Jane Houlihan, VP of research for Environmental Working Group
Horst Rechelbacher, Founder of Aveda Body Products and owner of Intelligent Nutrients
Stacy Malkan, Communications Director for Health Care Without Harm and founding member of Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
Jessica Assaf, President of Teens for Safe Cosmetics Campaign
(Click on a guest's name to listen to their full unedited interview.)
Host: Mark Sommer
Senior Producer: Chuck Rogers
Associate Producer: Kara Hochner
Production Engineer: Michael Schwartz
Music in this program: open- "New Orleans Instrumental #1" by R.E.M., EMI; welcome- " United Earth I" by Alan Stivell and Youssou N'Dour, Putumayo World Music; break 1- "Lab Rat" by The Ergot Derivative, Discordia Records; break 2- "Under My Skin" by Frank Sinatra, Warner Brothers; bottom of the hour billboard- " United Earth I" by Alan Stivell and Youssou N'Dour, Putumayo World Music; break 3- "Lab Rat" by The Ergot Derivative, Discordia Records; close and credits- "#34" by Dave Matthews Band, RCA. Distribution: WFMT Radio Network, Chicago. Marketing: Creative PR, Los Angeles
Duration: 55:00 minutes
Jane Houlihan directs research programs at the Environmental Working Group. Houlihan invented a cosmetics database called Skin Deep that helps people identify what toxins are in their body products.
Organic body product innovator, Horst Rechelbacher founded one of the first non-toxic, organic personal care lines called Aveda. He has since sold Aveda to Estee Lauder and now has began a non-profit cosmetics line called Intelligent Nutrients. Rechelbacher believes that one should only use cosmetics that are safe enough to eat.
Stacy Malkan, author of Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry has made it her mission to help eliminate the use of toxins cosmetics companies put in their products. Malkan is the media co-leader of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and a former journalist.
Teen educator and a teen herself, Jessica Assaf is paving the way to have safe personal care products on U.S. shelves. Jessica created “Operation Beauty Drop” where young ladies could dump their toxic cosmetics into bins placed in shopping malls in California and Montana.
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From dawn to dusk our skin is busy working on some kind of cosmetics all through 365 days! And since our skins have pores it is absorbing all those components and most of the ingredients are carcinogenic. If we believe the FDA is a check post to stamp 'safe' and 'unsafe' on the cosmetics we are only acting as ignorant.
Ethylene oxide found in PEG compounds is traced as the number One culprit in causing various cancers, to name a few- uterine cancer, breast cancer, brain cancer, Hodgkin's disease...etc. The corporate world will continue to launch their innovative creations in different shapes and sizes but we as consumers should be smart and wise enough to spend sometime reading the names of the chemicals they used. I feel natural products are the best choice, its safe and environment friendly as well.
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