Healthy Beauty : Your Guide to Ingredients to Avoid and Products You Can Trust

"Whether you stop using synthetics altogether or decide to slowly work them out of your life, this book will inspire you into a healthier lifestyle" (All Natural Beauty). Splashy ads and commercials are everywhere we turn, promising to keep our appearances fresh and our partners satisfied. But do consumers really know what they're applying to their faces and bodies in their quests for youth and beauty? Do they know the health risks they're taking by simply applying lipstick, face moisturizer, or deodorant? Toxic beauty products clutter the shelves at retail stores everywhere, and consumers don't know the avoidable risks they're taking by following a simple beauty regimen. Written by Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, MD, a founder and chairperson of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, Healthy Beauty gives the lowdown on salon safety, health risks hiding in everyday products, how we put our children in danger and more. Healthy Beauty will also educate you and your family on easily implemented solutions through the use of a variety of positive alternatives. In Healthy Beauty, you will learn: • How beauty products can affect your children before they're born • The brutal carelessness producers use when creating products for women and children • The risks taken when you step into a salon • Toxins in men's products such as deodorant, cologne, and aftershave • How to protect yourself and your family by reading labels and identifying potentially hazardous ingredients Through the help of Dr. Epstein and Healthy Beauty, you can protect yourself from the possible long-term effects of a simple beauty product. Anti-aging products are the fastest growing sector of the cosmetics industry as women and men are becoming rapidly more obsessed with looking and feeling young. Splashy ads and commercials are everywhere we turn, promising to keep our appearances fresh and our partners satisfied. But do consumers really know what they're applying to their faces and bodies in their quests for youth and beauty? Do they know the health risks they're taking by simply applying lipstick, face moisturizer or deodorant? Toxic beauty products clutter the shelves at retail stores everywhere, and consumers don't know the avoidable risks they're taking by following a simple beauty regimen. Written by Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, a founder and chairperson of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, Healthy Beauty gives the lowdown on salon safety, health risks hiding in everyday products, how we put our children in danger and more. Healthy Beauty will also educate you and your family on easily implemented solutions through the use of a variety of positive alternatives. In Healthy Beauty , you will learn: #8226; How beauty products can affect your children before they're born #8226; The brutal carelessness producers use when creating products for women and children #8226; The risks taken when you step into a salon #8226; Toxins in men's products such as deodorant, cologne and aftershave #8226; How to protect yourself and your family by reading labels and identifying potentially hazardous ingredients Through the help of Dr. Epstein and Healthy Beauty , you can protect yourself from the possible long-term effects of a simple beauty product

What do your lipstick, deodorant, and hand soap have in common? They, along with many other cosmetics and personal-care products, all contain chemical ingredients known to be toxic-ingredients shown in human studies and laboratory tests to cause cancer and disrupt the hormonal balance of the body.

We trust the Food and Drug Administration to protect us from toxic ingredients in our cosmetics and personal-care products. But the reality is that it has failed to do so. The responsibility for safety testing lies with the product industry, which recklessly disregards consumer health in favor of profit.

In Healthy Beauty, Dr. Samuel Epstein, former professor of environmental health and chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, warns of the toxic ingredients in cosmetics and personal-care products we use every day and educates readers on safe alternatives.

In these pages, you'll find:

The five categories of common toxic ingredients

Toxic ingredients tear-out sheets

Nontoxic alternatives to toxic products

The new trends, such as green chemistry and certified organic products, that are finally making your personal-care products safer

You can protect yourself and your family from the short-and long-term dangers of toxic products. Healthy Beauty shows you how.

" Whether you stop using synthetics altogether or decide to slowly work them out of your life, this book will inspire you into a healthier lifestyle" ( All Natural Beauty ). Splashy ads and commercials are everywhere we turn, promising to keep our appearances fresh and our partners satisfied. But do consumers really know what they're applying to their faces and bodies in their quests for youth and beauty? Do they know the health risks they're taking by simply applying lipstick, face moisturizer, or deodorant? Toxic beauty products clutter the shelves at retail stores everywhere, and consumers don't know the avoidable risks they're taking by following a simple beauty regimen. Written by Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, MD, a founder and chairperson of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, Healthy Beauty gives the lowdown on salon safety, health risks hiding in everyday products, how we put our children in danger and more. Healthy Beauty ...