No industry has aligned itself more closely with the breast cancer movement than the cosmetics industry. It’s long flooded the market with pink ribbon products: pink ribbon lipstick, pink ribbon nail polish, pink ribbon perfume.
Yet while they prominently claim to care about women with breast cancer, their pink ribbon products all too often actually increase risk of the disease – and, as if that’s not bad enough, they’re also pushing toxic products on women in active cancer treatment.
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Read on at The Guardian. (Thanks to Laura Purdy for sending the link my way!)
Of course, one ought to be questioning the use of toxic ingredients in cosmetics even more broadly. Why are they in any cosmetics? Appropriate regulation could hugely reduce, if not eliminate, toxic substances.
In the meantime, why do women continue to use them? (Projected revenue for 2016: $62 billion!) A question that has been asked many times by feminists, of course. Women’s continuing inequality obviously has considerable bearing on the answer.
Furthermore, this problem is not limited to cosmetics, but extends to hygiene products more generally, for men and women alike. Check your shampoo or hand lotion at EWG’s “Skin Deep” cosmetics database. Chances are high you’ll be alarmed at what you find.
This issue reminds me of a conversation that I’ve heard in animal advocacy circles about how major cancer fundraising organizations treat (or don’t treat) dietary concerns. For example: The Susan Komen Foundation and animal agriculture: Although the foundation now recommends that people “limit” their consumption of animal flesh and products and increase their consumption of fruits, veggies, and whole grains, they also are sponsored by corporations deeply tied to industrial animal agriculture (for example, deli supplier Dietz & Watson or Eggland’s Best).
Some links that may be of interest:
Komen Corporate Partners: http://ww5.komen.org/Meet_Our_Partners/
Komen’s recommendations for limiting risk: http://ww5.komen.org/AboutBreastCancer/RiskFactors/FactorsAffectingBreastCancerRisk/FactorsAffectingBreastCancerRisk.html#Fruits–Vegetables-and-Carotenoids
Vegan diets and limiting cancer risk: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-freston/vegan-diet-cancer_b_2250052.html