In Toxic Beauty, an award-wining documentary film by Phyllis Ellis, skin care products are called the “new cigarettes,” and a Swiss chemist for one of the biggest designer brands in the world admits that the cosmetic industry is destroying women’s cells.
But it’s not just cells the personal care industry is destroying…
Of the tens of thousands of chemicals available for use in the cosmetic industry most aren’t reviewed by a government agency before going to market.  In fact, the industry’s ugliest ingredients – carcinogenic heavy metals, parabens and phthalates, irritants, and allergens – have been linked to a number of health issues, including breast cancer and ovarian cancer….