The $220 billion cosmetics industry can and does use toxic chemicals linked to serious health harm in the beauty, hair and personal care products we bring into our homes and workplaces daily.

These chemical exposures have been linked to cancer, infertility, miscarriage, poor infant and maternal health outcomes, birth defects, learning disabilities, obesity, asthma, and many other serious health concerns. Everyone is at risk, but women and girls of color face the greatest exposure from the beauty products that are marketed to them.

Learn about the toxic chemicals in products marketed to communities of color, how businesses are responding and the Safe Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Act of 2019—the only federal cosmetic safety legislation
that would immediately ban more than a dozen of the worst toxic chemicals from cosmetics, fund research into safer alternatives, require full fragrance ingredient disclosure and address the over-exposure of communities of color to toxic chemicals in the toxic products marketed to them.