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Dismantling racist systems includes the toxic beauty industry

Skin lightening creams with mercury. Hair relaxers with parabens and estrogenic chemicals. Douches and vaginal sprays with phthalates.

In the US, beauty products are largely unregulated. Everyone is at risk, but women of color face extra hazards from the products that are marketed to them. And these hazards pile on top of health disparities created by other systemic injustices.

Filed Under: Mind the Store Tagged With: Beauty Inside Out campaign, beauty products, Eurocentric beauty standard, hormone disruptors, Leslie Martinez, mercury, phthalates, products, racism, retailers, toxic chemicals, WE ACT

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A new resource: safer paint strippers for consumers and workers

With advocacy and regulations spurring a shift away from methylene chloride and NMP (though EPA has failed to act on NMP), consumers and contractors may be wondering what alternatives they can use.

Filed Under: Find Safer Products, Mind the Store Tagged With: hazardous chemicals, methylene chloride, N-Methylpyrrolidone (NMP), retailers, safer alternatives

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Consumer Health Victory: Seven Major Retailers Commit to Reduce Use of Toxic Chemicals in Products and Packaging

Second Annual Report Card Also Identifies Nine Retailers Receiving Failing Grades

Filed Under: Mind the Store Tagged With: Ace Hardware, Ahold Delhaize, Albertsons Companies, Apple, Babies R Us, Best Buy, Campaign for Healthier Solutions, Clean and Healthy New York, Costco, CVS, Dollar General, Environmental Health Strategy Center, Getting Ready for Baby, IKEA, Kohl's, laggards, leaders, NRDC, Office Depot, Report, retailers, Sally Beauty, Staples, success, Target, The Home Depot, TJX Companies, toys r us, Trader Joe's, Wal-Mart Stores, Walgreens, Who's Minding the Store? retailer report card, Whole Foods Market

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