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• Yeah, Save the Babies, But What About Environmental Hazards For Moms?

  I will admit that I did not go fully organic until I was pregnant, and all of the sudden became more conscious of the fact that what I put in my body went directly to the fetus I was boarding. Being a host made me care more about environmental hazards, because it wasn't just my health I was worried about anymore. And this is part of the point one writer makes when she calls attention to crap like phtalates in common products like cosmetics. She points to a small sample study of umbilical cord blood that found, "an average of 287 contaminants in their cord blood... Read More... Posted Feb 05 2008, 08:31 AM by Kelly Mills with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: health, research study, environment, study, chemicals, toxins, fetus, green, MOTHERS Act, cosmetics, plastic, sample, cord blood, phtalates

• Pregnancy Glow Replaces Botox

  No judgment here, I'm just reporting the facts. On Botox. Pregnant women are advised to end Botox treatments and fillers from conception to birth to weaning. But a hiatus from these face-enhancing treatments, for many people, means a face that goes back to its saggy, droopy, wrinkly self. One Hollywood Botox peddler would like to disagree.   Read More... Posted Jan 31 2008, 11:30 AM by Madeline Holler with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, beauty, cosmetic surgery, plastic surgery, botulism, beauty pressure, cosmetics, Botox

• Mixed Messages On Mercury

  Last month, two states passed two very different laws involving mercury.  Minnesota became the first state in the country to ban the use of mercury in all cosmetics - even those that conform to federal mercury standards.  New Jersey also had groundbreaking legislation - only what that new law mandated was the injection of mercury into each and every preschooler in the state.   Read More... Posted Jan 11 2008, 08:31 AM by Amy S.F. Lutz with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: minnesota, New Jersey, mercury, cosmetics, thimerosol

• Cosmetics are Making Us Infertile?

  Okay, we all know we’re smearing chemicals on our faces, scalps and body as a part of the daily beauty regimen. They’re safe, right, these products? Not tested on animals! FDA approved! Well, yeah, but still, a writer/activist says we’re soaking up lots and lots of carcinogenic crap and other dangers whenever we look to Revlon or Maybelline or Lancome and all the rest to get rid of those lines/blemishes/narrow eyes/dark circles/double-chins/bulbous nostrils. Read More... Posted Oct 26 2007, 03:00 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: phthalates, Madeline Holler, health and kids, lead exposure, danger, cosmetics