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The Jane Hibbard Idema Women’s Studies Center and The Center for Sustainability at Aquinas College present Stacy Malkan |
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| March 21, 2012 at the Aquinas College Wege Center |
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| Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry |
Lead in lipstick? Formaldehyde in baby shampoo? How is this possible? Simple. The $50 billion cosmetics industry is so powerful they have kept themselves unregulated for decades.
In 2000, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported American women had a higher “body burden” of phthalates, a set of industrial chemicals linked to birth defects and infertility. Suspicions about repeated exposure from cosmetics led to some disturbing discoveries.
Not Just a Pretty Face chronicles the quest that led a group of breast cancer activists and environmentalists to the offices of the world’s largest cosmetics companies to ask some tough questions:
- Why do they market themselves as pink ribbon leaders in the fight against breast cancer, yet use chemicals that may contribute to that very disease?
- Why do so many body-care products marketed to men and women of childbearing age contain chemicals linked to birth defects and infertility?
- Why do so many baby shampoos contain cancer-causing chemicals?
As doors slammed in their faces, the beauty myth peeled away and the industry’s toxic secrets began to emerge.
The good news is that chemists are developing non-toxic products and many good companies are creating safer cosmetics and building businesses based on the values of health, justice and personal empowerment. |
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About the Author
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Stacy Malkan is the author of the award-winning book, “Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry” and co-founder of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, an international coalition of health and environmental groups working to eliminate toxic chemicals from beauty products. Stacy is a leading expert on toxic chemicals in cosmetics and how to find the safest products. She is frequently interviewed by major media including Good Morning America, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and many others. Prior to her work as a leading environmental health advocate, Stacy worked for ten years as a journalist and newspaper publisher. For more information: www.NotJustaPrettyFace.org and www.SafeCosmetics.org |
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| Endorsements for Not Just a Pretty Face |
"This is a gripping, personal book by a recovered cosmetics addict with a great factual range on the impact of an unregulated group of companies… This book should be read by women and men who have trusted, for too long, the companies whose products get inside their bodies and their minds."
- Ralph Nader, consumer advocate, author
of Unsafe at Any Speed |
"How is it possible that our skin products continue to go unregulated by the FDA? Shame on them for neglecting the American people … Thank you Stacy for exposing the truth. The jig is up!"
- Fran Drescher, New York Times best-selling author and star of Emmy award-winning show The Nanny |
"A must-read for everyone …Thank you Stacy for this most important investigation into the hidden dangers of everyday personal care."
- Horst Rechelbacher, founder of Aveda |
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| For more information about Not Just a Pretty Face or Stacy Malkan please visit http://notjustaprettyface.org. |
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| Keynote Luncheon |
Join us for lunch to interact with Ms. Stacy Malkan, author of Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry and co-founder of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. Explore with Ms. Malkan the toxic side of many personal care products. Learn how the industry is making them safer as well as what you can do to protect yourself and your family. >Register Online
Date: Wednesday, March 21
Time: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Place: Wege Center Ballroom, Aquinas College
Ticket cost: $50*
>Register Online
*Proceeds from this event will benefit the Jane Hibbard Idema Women’s Studies Center and the Center for Sustainability at Aquinas College.
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| Public Lecture |
Come to hear Ms. Stacy Malkan, author of Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry and co-founder of the “Campaign for Safe Cosmetics,” discuss both the harmful effects of many personal care products as well as the nature of the industry’s safest products, and what every consumer should know and can do regarding them.
Date: Wednesday, March 21
Time: 7 p.m.
Place: Wege Center Ballroom, Aquinas College
Admission is free and open to the public.  |
