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Beauty at what cost?

March 30th, 2009

By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now

That old saw “Beauty at all costs” got flipped on it’s perfectly coiffed head at a salon convention in Chicago where some 60,000 beauty professionals gathered over the weekend at America’s Beauty Show. There, some organizers took a moment to ask “Beauty at what cost?”

The question broadly encompassed the economic concerns of salon workers, and also worries about the environmental risks of acute and chronic exposure to the chemicals in beauty products.

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Clorox pulls back the curtain on ingredients

March 3rd, 2009

By John DeFore
Green Right Now

Ever wondered what’s in that stuff you use to scrub the sink — the stuff that gets rinsed out into the water supply every time you do your chores?

A lot of people do, evidently — even those who don’t know a polyacrylate from a hypochlorite — and the folks at Clorox appear to be listening. They’ve announced an initiative to make that information (most of it, anyway) available over the course of this year, beginning with the products they promote as Earth-friendly under the Green Works trademark.

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