Product Description

Cosmetics and personal care products are the single largest class of avoidable lifelong exposures to highly toxic ingredients, including many scientifically proven to cause cancer. Contrary to popular belief, the FDA neither warns us about nor protects us from these dangers. Concerned only with its own sales, the industry recklessly ignores or trivializes them, making them guilty of flagrant white collar crime.

In Toxic Beauty, longtime international cancer prevention expert Dr. Epstein outlines the serious threats that toxic ingredients in cosmetics and personal care products pose to our health and our lives. He describes the carcinogenic, hormonal, and other toxic ingredients in these products, and provides information on the safe alternative products becoming increasingly available.

Part exposé and part practical handbook, Toxic Beauty shows you how to protect your health, and that of everyone you care about.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #168823 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 208 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781933771625
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
Toxic Beauty is the most important book of the decade. As a medical doctor, Sam Epstein clearly understands the causes of diseases such as cancer, diabetes and other inflammatory diseases through the exposure to petrochemical and synthetic toxins found in every day consumer products. This book is a transparent truth of the consumer industry. It is a must read for everyone. --Horst Rechelbacher, Founder of Aveda products

Review
Most American women have no clue that the "rugged individual" model held up for emulation includes placing the responsibility for one's health and safety squarely on the consumer's shoulder! When it come to cosmetics, each woman is on her own in judging safety of products - with no meaningful information from the producer and no aid from government watch-dogs. The research, if done at all, can be withheld by the company. Dr. Samuel Epstein is the first to speak out on this "Toxic Beauty" product hazard, and to give women some guidelines for meaningful protective action. It is a "must read" for all those who care about public health!

From the Inside Flap
"The cosmetics industry has borrowed a page from the playbook of the tobacco industry by putting profits ahead of public health." --Sen. Edward Kennedy, Sept. 10, 1997, at Senate hearings on the FDA Reform Bill

Your exposure to cancer-causing, hormonal and other toxic ingredients in these products begins in the womb, through your mother's unknowing use of harmful products, and then steadily continues throughout your lifetime. But unlike cigarettes, which carry cancer warnings on their labels, cosmetics and personal care products include no such cautions.

The good news? These exposures are 100 percent avoidable.

In Toxic Beauty, Dr. Samuel Epstein and co-author Randall Fitzgerald show you how to protect your health and those of your loved ones by identifying toxic ingredients in everyday products such as baby lotions, sunscreens, hair dyes and perfumes.

Most consumers simply don't know the dangers in the products they routinely apply to their faces and bodies. Toxic Beauty issues a long-overdue wake-up call.