Pow! Right in the Kisser!!
The spectre of toxic chemicals and colourings in lipsticks has raised its ugly head – again.
A report out in today’s Daily Mail talks about all the chemical nasties that cosmetic manufacturers put in lipsticks in the name of ‘beauty’. It’s a great report written by John Naish, a fine journalist and author of one of my favourite books Enough – Breaking Free From the World of More, and I was pleased to be quoted in such a generous way.
If anyone is interested I raised the issue of toxic lipsticks in my Behind the Label column in the Ecologist in 2006. The problem of ugly ‘beauty’ products is also featured in my books What’s in This Stuff? and Skin Deep. John’s article also mentions some genuinely worrying problems with, amongst other things, the antibacterial chemical Triclosan. You can read more about this in my article The Dawn of the Domestic Superbug.
You’d think by now manufacturers – and more crucially women – would have got the message and stopped using this stuff!
