The chemicals in nail products put nail salon workers at risk for cancer and other illnesses. Angie Chung/Flickr Lupita D. Montoya, University of Colorado Boulder and Aaron Lamplugh, University of Colorado Boulder Anyone who has walked past a nail salon is familiar with the noxious odors that emanate from acrylic nails, polishes and removers. Customers … [Read more...] about Nail salon workers suffer chemical exposures that can be like working at a garage or a refinery
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Safe Cosmetics Australia
If, like me, you're the type of person who finds that the scent of perfume hints at toxicity in the air, then you'll be ecstatic to find Australia now has its own national accreditation for toxic-free products, which means safer products for us. (Note that I said 'safer' because for some chemically sensitive people, there are not many products that are actually safe—there … [Read more...] about Safe Cosmetics Australia