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The Ugly Side of Pretty

By Rebecca Ephraim, Dragonfly Media. Posted April 6, 2005.


Emerging science suggests that untold numbers of cosmetics and personal care ingredients may be silently and insidiously promoting cancer, ravaging women's reproductive functions and causing birth defects.
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Sign the consumer petition to encourage companies to join the compact for Safe Cosmetics:

www.safecosmetics.org

Purchase from the list of companies that have committed to safe products:

www.safecosmetics.org/companies/signers.cfm

Dragonfly Media health editor Rebecca Ephraim has become an avid label reader of personal care products and devotee of "Skin Deep."

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