Our hard work is paying off! Thousands of Campaign for Safe Cosmetics supporters, including many of our own members, urged the U.S. FDA to get cancer-causing formaldehyde out of Brazilian Blowout and other hair straightening-products.
And even more recently, our supporters signed a petition to the Obama Administration asking for prevention to be a major focus of our country's cancer plan, adding to a total of 73,000 signatures that were delivered to the White House!
Now, it's time to move forward on desperately needed legislation on safe chemicals in personal care products. Existing U.S. law on this issue has not been updated in 70 years and allows companies to use harmful substances like lead, 1,4-diozane and other chemicals linked to cancer in everyday products. Thanks to individuals and businesses like you, Congressional leaders reintroduced the federal Safe Cosmetics Act of 2011 in the House of Representatives on Friday, June 24th! This bill (H.R. 2359) will give the FDA the authority to ensure your everyday personal care products are free of these dangerous toxic chemicals, which will protect families and help the United States remain a world leader in the marketplace.
Please urge your House members to co-sponsor the Safe Cosmetics Act of 2011. Here's how:
1) Email them using this easy form.
2) Call them. Use the Legislator Lookup and dial the number for your federal Representative (we're not contacting Senators yet) and use the email text from step one, above, as a guide for your message to the staff person who answers the phone. Calls usually take about 1 minute and are hugely important!
3) Visit them. You have the right to meet with your Representative (or his or her staffers) to tell them that you want safe cosmetics. Please see the Legislative Toolkit to learn more.
Please take action and spread the word - the support of individuals and businesses is crucial for making cosmetics safe for all of us.
P.S. Do you have comments, questions or ideas? Find more information here. If you would like to work with the Campaign directly by joining the nascent Campaign for Safer Cosmetics Business Networks, fill out the form here.
