What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You . . . In Fact, It Already Is

Dr. Samuel Epstein's Newest Book, Toxic Beauty

Toxic Beauty is a fully documented exposé which reveals the wide range of avoidable health risks, some even life threatening, that Americans are unknowingly exposed to in their everyday cosmetic and personal-care products. “But there is also good news. These toxic exposures are 100 percent avoidable by taking just a few basic precautions,” says Epstein.

Toxic Beauty is written by Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, an internationally recognized expert on avoidable causes of cancer, besides other toxic-related diseases, and investigative reporter Randall Fitzgerald. And besides chronicling the pervasive marketing of dangerous products, Toxic Beauty also informs readers on the growing availability of safe products. In the pages of Toxic Beauty, you’ll find:

 The five categories of common toxic ingredients in cosmetics and personal-care products.

 Toxic ingredients in these products have been incriminated in a wide range of diseases, particularly cancers. These include malignant melanoma of the skin, and lethal ovarian cancer.

They also include birth defects in male infants.

 Safe synthetic and certified organic products as alternative to dangerous products.

 Dangerous exposures to employees from prolonged exposures to toxic ingredients in unlabeled products in poorly ventilated and unregulated beauty and nail salons.

 Tear-out sheets listing all major categories of toxic ingredients; also tables on five major classes

of toxic ingredients that can be downloaded from the Cancer Prevention Coalition Web site, www.preventcancer.com.

Epstein warns, “Unbelievably, the FDA has recklessly failed to protect us from toxic ingredients in cosmetics and personal-care products for the last six decades. What’s more, the mainstream industry has remained criminally indifferent to the dangers of their products. In sharp contrast, European regulations ban all products containing toxic ingredients.”

So, the reality is that protecting yourself and your family unfortunately is still entirely up to you.

Toxic Beauty shows you just how.

From Healthy Communication.