Happy Valentine's Day from Campaign for Safe Cosmetics

An email arrived in my inbox this morning from the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, which I am quoting verbatim.

I've added html to make the links work, and made some minor edits for clarity.

This Valentine's Day, love your body and take action to get toxic chemicals out of cosmetics and body care products!

Did you know: Of the more than 10,000 chemical ingredients in personal care products, everything from shampoo to nail polish to after shave, 89 percent have not undergone safety testing and many have been linked to cancer, birth defects, hormone disruption and other health harms?

Many of these chemicals have found their way into our bodies, our breast milk and our children. With breast cancer, birth defects and other health problems on the rise, there is no reason for these chemicals to be in our products.

Here's the good news: More than 250 cosmetics companies including The Body Shop, Burt's Bees, and many others, have signed the Compact for Safe Cosmetics, a pledge to not use hazardous chemicals and use safer alternatives to protect our health.

This Valentine's Day, love your body and protect your loved ones by taking action for safe cosmetics!

Here are 3 easy things you can do:

1. Send cosmetics company CEOs a valentine urging them to stop using toxic chemicals! Click here to tell them you would LOVE it if they signed the Compact for Safe Cosmetics. Click here to send a free fax or click here to take action.


2. Give Safe Cosmetics This Valentine's Day! Visit Skin Deep, the world's largest online tool to find out about the health impacts of the chemicals in your favorite products and find safer alternatives for you and your loved ones.


3. During the month of February, forget about Valentine's Day and "Love Your Health"! Invite your friends to a Healthy Cosmetics Spa Party! Treat yourself to a spa party and learn how to keep you and your family safe. Learn more about dangerous ingredients in personal care products (carcinogens in shampoo?) and experiment with making our own safer alternatives! Learn how to make cranberry lip balm, or an oatmeal exfoliate!
   
   Click here for an action kit with everything you'll need to hold your very own Healthy Cosmetics Spa Party today!

Thank you for your help in making sure cosmetics and personal care products we use everyday are safe… because safe is beautiful!

To a clean, green, healthy future,

The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
www.SafeCosmetics.org

Please forward far and wide.

About the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics:

The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is a coalition of public health, educational, faith, labor, women's, environmental and consumer groups. The mission of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is to protect the health of consumers and workers by requiring the cosmetics industry to phase out the use of chemicals that are known or suspected to cause cancer, genetic mutation or reproductive harm.

Founding Organizational Members of the Campaign Include: Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, The Breast Cancer Fund, Commonweal, Environmental Working Group, Friends of the Earth, Health Care Without Harm, National Black Environmental Justice Network, National Environmental Trust and Women's Voices for the Earth.

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