Cosmetics and personal care items women use every day are packed with a constellation of chemicals that health advocates say could be connected to a host of health problems.

The Personal Care Products Council (PCPC), the trade group representing 90% of the US beauty industry, says their products are “among the safest” regulated by the FDA, and maintains that fears of certain chemicals are overblown.

“The number of…

What is clean beauty? Where is the clean beauty movement headed? Here’s what you can expect for 2022.

Clean beauty is associated with natural beauty, green beauty, and all other types of beauty that deviate from the norm.

But at its core, what does the clean beauty movement stand for?

Since there’s no legal or official definition, many brands have taken it upon themselves to define clean beauty according to their…

One skin care ideal that has changed over time is skin color. American ideals of skin health have always been tied to problematic ideas about race and economic class. White Americans have idealized a pale complexion for most of American history. A pale, creamy complexion and smooth, white hands not only signified that one was racially white, they also demonstrated one’s wealth by implying that a man—but far more importantly a woman—did not perform manual labor or work outside in the…

The purpose of the classification and labelling system is to consider the hazards arising from normal handling and use of substances and preparations in the form they are placed on the market, i.e. to:

identify all the inherent physico-chemical and toxicological properties and for substances also the environmental properties, which may involve a risk during normal handling and use, - and

inform the general public about the hazards and adequate precautionary measures for…