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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