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Campaign For Safe Cosmetics To Release New Cosmetics Video

by Donna Maria

Earlier today, I told you about the Personal Care Products Council’s newly announced proposed cosmetics legislation. This post shares a teaser for a video entitled, “The Story Of Cosmetics,” that is slated to be released tomorrow by the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics.

As you watch this teaser, and the full-length video that will be released tomorrow, I want you to remember a few very important things.

CFSC’s video will likely tell you that cosmetics companies are putting all kinds of toxic ingredients into your cosmetics, that they are evil, and that they are conducting business in a sort of “wild, wild west” environment, unregulated by the FDA or anyone else. The video will likely also share stories about how the cosmetics industry spends hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to lobby Congress and the FDA to minimize regulations so they can do whatever they want, without regard for consumer safety. I’m sure there will be more.

Scare Tactics Will Abound

Since CFSC works closely with the Environmental Working Group (EWG), I have no doubt that the video will try to make you think that all chemicals and all cosmetics containing chemicals are bad. As we connect the dots, we learn that the video was created in collaboration with the Tides Foundation, which also funds EWG. As you can see from this post, EWG is no stranger to using scare tactics to work with CFSC to create an untrue picture of the cosmetics industry as a whole.

We won’t have to wait much longer to see exactly what the long-awaited video says. Maybe my predictions are totally off base. Wouldn’t that be nice.

Question: What do you predict will be in the video? What do you think motivates the people who manage the CFSC website and the Skin Deep Database?

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Tagged as: advocacy, campaign for safe cosmetics, cfsc, cosmetics, environmental working group, ewg, fda, public policy, regulation, scare tactics, small business

posted on July 20, 2010 ·

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  • Anani Cosmetics

    I think the last frame which shows the box of bottles, with a scull and crossbones on the side, is a pretty good indicator of what to expect in this video. Sigh

  • http://www.indiebusinessblog.com Donna Maria Coles Johnson

    You are probably correct. Hopefully, lawmakers and consumers will begin to see through all of it. It's amazing what untruths money can buy.

  • http://twitter.com/essentialU Kayla Fioravanti

    I predict that the video will say the cosmetic companies are evil, government is in the pocket of the cosmetic companies (LOL funny image when you realize the size of all of us Indie businesses) and that only by supporting EWG, the Campaign “for Safe” Cosmetics and like groups can you get the “truth”.

    I believe that they want to control what we can make, buy, sell, eat, drink, consume with legislation written by them that make them the new “authority.” (But maybe I've been fighting this battle too long and am thinking the worst — we can only hope that I am wrong.)

  • Anani Cosmetics

    I hope so too Donna Maria…but we only need to look back at the Swine Flu debacle too see how easily a population can be controlled by fear. People seem so much more willing to believe the worst. I so appreciate all of the hard work you and others are doing in this area!! And I pray that people will start being more discerning. I've put 10 years of blood sweat and tears into a business that I started with a $100 dollar loan from my 18 yr. old son when I suddenly and unexpectedly became a single Mom. I'm trying not to be frightened or negative, but I often feel like I'm fighting a losing battle.
    Thank you again!!

  • Sagescript

    I think they will say that the average woman puts 515 chemicals on her face each day!! Oh my!! I keep meaning to count how many chemicals I put on my face everyday starting with dihydrogen monoxide (water).

  • http://www.indiebusinessblog.com Donna Maria Coles Johnson

    Oh yes, you should keep count of all of those chemicals. Surely, your life is in peril. Maybe you should stop bathing. Yes, that's the sensible thing to do. Let me know how that works for you.

  • Mmahboubian

    Well, it's pretty obvious that the EWG and other makers of the video did not consult with any small cosmetics manufacturers whose priority it is to make safe products in a free market. The video will definitely paint the cosmetics safety issue as black and white (the graphics themselves are black and white) and will leave out every other color. I really dislike this trend towards a nanny state where these kinds of groups are vying for the power to tell us what is good for us.

  • http://www.sterlingminerals.com/ Katherine

    I watched the entire video this morning and my initial response was, “OMG”. It was skull and crossbones everywhere and I suddenly realized this is a running diatribe of pure fear mongering and based on no science yet again but purely operating from the precautionary principle…..then about 2/3rds through the video I began to laugh uncontrollably at how really juvenile the video was, treating us like mindless lemmings.

    And in response to government control, just look at our health care, now because the constitution prevents government from forcing us to buy something it will now be referred to as a health tax instead of fine. SIN Tax for soda pops, twinkies, etc. anything the govt. deems is unhealthy…by 2014 all Americans must have their BMI reported to the government so they can determine if we are FAT! They want to control our SALT intake by demanding restaurants no longer add salt to the food, while offering salt at the table still. They want us to pay sales tax on homes we sell and buy…have to raise money somewhere to pay for health care and all the obese people in the world…my BMI will declare me FAT….What is the answer?

    Because right now, I am clueless and feel like we are on the losing end of this new government takeover.

    Some days the insanity of all of this government regulation literally gives me a feeling of oppression and I am beginning to understand how those that live in communistic and socialist regimes feel.

  • http://www.indiebusinessblog.com Donna Maria Coles Johnson

    I'm quite sure they didn't consult, and it seems odd and sad that they didn't consult with the companies that have signed the Compact For Safe Cosmetics. I wonder when they'll realize they are being used for the personal gain of people who claim to be acting in the public interest.

  • http://www.indiebusinessblog.com Donna Maria Coles Johnson

    It does feel oppressive, and there are so many different issues that are of grave concern. Perhaps through this one issue, some headway can be made specifically in the cosmetics arena that will reverberate across all sectors of our economy.

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