The Story of Cosmetics video by Annie Leonard and the team from the Story of Stuff. It’s cool. You should watch it.
Entries Tagged as ‘Ingredients’
May 21, 2010
Pretty Price Check (05.21.10)
Hair dye and liver damage, a Teen Tan Ban, the greening of Aveda, mercury in lightening creams, and more.
May 14, 2010
Pretty Price Check (05.14.10)
Secret toxins in celebrity perfumes, the dress size mystery continues, the Today Show ditches makeup, and more.
April 16, 2010
Pretty Price Check (04.16.10)
Silly Primark, padded bikinis are (not) for kids; Bliss goes paraben-free; plus, two bills that would make the beauty industry a little less toxic, and more.
March 5, 2010
Pretty Price Check (03.05.10)
Eyelash junkies, blood is the new Botox, RIP on the Colorado Safe Personal Care Products Act, and more.
February 24, 2010
On the matters of tanning and toxins. [Government Watch]
The tanning industry is at odds with the rest of the beauty industry. But is this debate distracting from the need for toxic chemical law reform?
January 19, 2010
(Not) hooked on a peeling.
My 600-hour adventure in esthetics school. Learn about the project or catch up with weeks 1-9. Here’s how Milady’s explains a chemical peel, which is where an esthetician paints your face with glycolic acid (a kind of alphadydroxy-acid derived from sugar cane) to exfoliate away your dead skin cells, from page 384: These light peels [...]
January 8, 2010
Pretty Price Check. (01.08.10)
Pretty Price Check: Your Friday round-up of how much we paid for beauty last week. $2.2 billion: The amount we’ll be spending by 2013 on foods and drinks — like this collagen coffee, above — that promise to enhance our beauty, according to this New York Times story. “If you’re drinking Nescafé, you better hope it’s doing something [...]
