1. …Personal care products
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…Personal care products 1

2. Why are Personal Care Products Potentially Harmful?
Many formulations contain harmful ingredients that have extremely small molecules. These molecules penetrate the skin and the blood system and quickly build up in the organs and tissues.
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3. CONCERNED Senator Kennedy
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Senator Kennedy
CONCERNED
Concerns were expressed by Senator Kennedy at hearings on the 1997 FDA cosmetics reform bill. "Our message is that cosmetics can be dangerous to your health. --The American people have a right to full and fair information about the actual and potential dangers of the products they use every day." 3

4. Cancer Prevention Coalition
Toxic Ingredients
Why are toxins & carcinogens not disclosed on personal care product labels?
“Ingredients of cosmetics and personal care products (CPCP) are generally identified on their labels by a long list of chemicals. However, this is meaningless to the overwhelming majority of consumers, let alone to expert toxicologists and cancer prevention professionals This critically necessitates a “Red Flag” warning of the wide range of multiple carcinogenic ingredients, contaminants and precursors in most mainstream industry products.” 4
* Dr. Samuel Epstein, Page 17 Unreasonable Risk

5. * Based on review of 917 ingredients
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Cosmetic Ingredient Review
Compendium 2000
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* Based on review of 917 ingredients 5

6. Personal Care Products
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Personal Care Products
…Used daily by Men
• Gel/Mousse/Pomade • Hand Soap • Mouthwash • Shampoo • Toothpaste
• Body Lotion • Body Wash • Conditioner • Deodorant • Hair Spray
(about 10 daily) 6
* Page 26 Unreasonable Risk

7. …Personal care products Used daily
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Infants & Children
…Personal care products Used daily
• Hand Soap • Shampoo • Toothpaste
(about 3 daily) 7
Pg 26 Unreasonable Risk

8. Personal Care Products
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Personal Care Products
…Used daily by women
Body Lotion
Body Wash
Shampoo & Conditioner
Deodorant
Face & Hand Lotion
Face Soap
Hair Gel/Mousse/Pomade
Hair Spray
Hand Soap
Mouthwash
Toothpaste
(about 13 daily) 8

9. Cosmetic Products …Used daily by women Blush Eye Shadow Face Powder
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Cosmetic Products
…Used daily by women
Blush
Eye Shadow
Face Powder
Foundation
Lipstick
Mascara
(about 6 daily) 9
Pg 26 Unreasonable Risk

10. ce Source of Eviden 78 IARC seen monographs since 1972
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Source of Eviden
78 IARC seen monographs since 1972
500 National institutes of Health Technical Report Series on individual carcinogens 10
Pg 28 Unreasonable Risk

11. Cancer Risks of Smoking Tobacco Products Compared to Mainstream Industry Cosmetics and Personal Care Products
Cancer Risk
Smoking Tobacco Products
Use of Cosmetics and Personal Care Products
INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE
REGULATORY KNOWLEDGE
CONSUMER KNOWLEDGE
REGULATION
WARNING LABELS
EXPOSURE
ONSET EXPOSURE
ROUTE EXPOSURE
POPULATIONS EXPOSED
RESPONSIBLE CARCINOGENS
WELL DOCUMENTED
LIMITED
EXPLICIT IN MOST NATIONS
VOLUNTARY
USUALLY IN ADOLESENCE
INHALATION
Largely lower socio-economic
(except in some Asiatic nations)
MULTIPLE
VIRTUALLY NONE
NONE
INVOLUNTARY
INFANCY
SKIN & INHALATION
VIRTUALLY UNIVERSAL
* Page 129 Unreasonable Risk
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In September 10, 1997 hearings on the FDA reform bill (HR 1411), Senator Edward M. Kennedy stated: "The cosmetic industry has borrowed a page from the playbook of the tobacco industry by putting profits ahead of public health." 12 2

13. Cancer Prevention Coalition
With rare exceptions, such as children’s bubble baths, the FDA has never required industry to label PCC products with any warning of well-documented toxic or cancer risks, nor has it banned the sale of unsafe products to an unsuspecting public.” 13

14. The Dirty Dozen Food Household Products
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The Dirty Dozen
Food
Beef Frankfurters – (e.g. Oscar Meyer Foods Corporation
Whole Milk – (e.g. Borden or Lucerne)
Household Products
Ajax Cleanser – Colgate – Polmolive, Inc.
Zud Heavy Duty Cleanser – Reckitt & Colman, Inc.
Lysol Disinfectant Spray – Reckitt & Coleman, Inc.
Zodiac Cat & Dog Flea Collar – Sandoz Agro, Inc.
Ortho Weed-B-Gon Lawn Weed Killer – Monsanto Co. 14
* Page 18 & 19 Unreasonable Risk

15. The Dirty Dozen Cont. Cosmetics & Toiletries
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The Dirty Dozen Cont.
Cosmetics & Toiletries
Talcum Powder – Johnson & Johnson, Inc.
Cover Girl Replenishing Natural Finish Make-up (Foundation) – Proctor & Gamble, Inc.
Crest Tarter Control Toothpaste – Proctor & Gamble, Inc.
Alberto VO5 Conditioner (Essence of Neutral Henna) – Alberto-Culver USA, Inc.
Clairol Nice n’ Easy (Permanent Haircolor) – Clairol, Inc.
* Presented by the Cancer Prevention Coalition at a September 21, 1995 Washington, D.C. press conference, co-sponsored by Ralph Nader, launching publication of The Safe Shopper’s Bible (Appendix 2C) 15
* Page 18 & 19 Unreasonable Risk

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Talc: Women, in the IR reproductive years, regularly dusting their genital area with Talc after bathing or showering are at approximately 3-fold increased risk of developing ovarian cancer.
Permanent hair color: Women using permanent or semi-permanent black or dark brown hair dyes are at increased risk for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, multiple myeloma, chronic leukemia, and also breast cancer. In fact, there is growing evidence that use of these hair dyes accounts for about 20% of all non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas in U.S. women. 16
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17. Frank – those ingredients that are carcinogenic themselves.
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Frank – those ingredients that are carcinogenic themselves.
Hidden – not carcinogenic themselves , but under certain conditions may have carcinogenic properties
* Page 29 – 30 Unreasonable Risk 17

18. Cancer Prevention Coalition
Beef Frankfurters: Children eating up to about a dozen each month are at approximately 4-fold increased risk of brain cancer & 7-fold increased risk of Leukemia. (This is due to the formation of a nitrosamine carcinogen, by the interaction of nitrite, used in colorant, and natural amines in meat). 18
Pg 17 Unreasonable Risk

19. OSHA analyzed 2,983 chemicals used in personal care products and found 884 of them to be toxic.
778 can cause acute toxicity
218 can cause reproductive complications
314 can cause biological mutations
146 can cause tumors
376 can cause skin and eye irritations
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20. Cancer Prevention Coalition
“Concerns on the cancer risks from PCC products are emphasized by: lifelong use of multiple products by the majority of the U.S. population; the ready skin absorption of carcinogenic ingredients, further increased by detergents, especially when left on the skin for prolonged periods: and by decades-long suppression of information by the FDA and industry, abetted by a roll-over media, in flagrant denial of consumers’ right to know. Mainstream industry products thus pose major risks of avoidable cancer.”
* Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., undisclosed Carcinogens in Cosmetics and Personal Care Products pose avoidable risks of Cancer warns Samuel Epstein, MD, 1/15/01 PRNewswire
* Unreasonable Risk 20

21. Medical Industrial Lifestyle Oral Contraceptives
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Medical
Oral Contraceptives
Estrogen replacement therapy (high doses & prolonged use)
Premenopausal mammography
Non-hormonal prescription drugs (anti-hypertensives & tranquilizers)
Silicone gel breast implants (polyyurethane foam)
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Lifestyle 21

22. Cancer Prevention Coalition
“So for all these reasons, it must be emphasized that cosmetics & personal care products are one of the most important, if not the single most important, causes of avoidable and involuntary lifelong exposure to multiple carcinogens.”
* Page 129 Unreasonable Risk 22

23. Cancer Prevention Coalition
Personal care products produced for beauty without concern for the long term effect on the user need to be eliminated!
Take action now by eliminating them from your use and replace them with safe products. 23

24. Reverse The Epidemic Take Action Join the CPC Educate yourself
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