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'Beauty Bloggers' and the Exploited Women of Juarez: An Outcry
By Alison Fairbrother - Politics Daily"Mad Men's" Don Draper may have had hangovers and hotties at his '60s-era ad firm, but one headache he did not have was bloggers. Over the past few weeks, an army of beauty bloggers sunk their glossy nails into a collaboration between cosmetics giant MAC and fashion company Rodarte that made light of the perilous situation of women living in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (The business of promoting beauty products has changed profoundly since the days when real life Don Draper advertising executives convened focus groups to learn whether women used face cream to feel beautiful, or to catch a ...
How Safe Are Cosmetics? New Bill Wants to Find Out
By Andrew Schneider - AOL News(July 21) -- Most Americans use about 10 personal care products each day. The toothpaste, shampoo, deodorant, baby powder and other things that we routinely douse or slather on our bodies expose us to at least 100 different chemicals. Many of these, public health experts say, have been linked to adverse health effects like cancer, birth defects and learning disabilities. There is nothing that the Food and Drug Administration can legally do about it. But that may begin to change as two Democratic lawmakers -- Reps. Jan Schakowsky from Illinois and Edward Markey from Massachusetts -- ...
Facebook App Lightens Users' Skin Color
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(July 14) -- Skincare brand Vaseline has launched a skin-whitening application for Facebook in India, which allows users to lighten their faces in profile photos. The app is designed to promote Vaseline's range of male skin-lightening creams, which -- so the campaign promises -- will unleash "what is hidden under your skin." The widget is the latest attempt by cosmetics companies to exploit India's "Snow White Syndrome," a commonly held belief that paler is better when it comes to skin color. Avon already markets a lightener called Refined White there; Revlon has one named Absolute White+; ...
Safety Standards Only Skin Deep on Cosmetics
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyThe next time you swipe a hint of color onto your lips, you might want to take a second look at the ingredients -- but what you're looking for may not be listed on the back of the box. The New York Times revisiting the issue of trace amounts of lead in lipstick sheds light on the troubling lack of regulation in the cosmetics industry. ...
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