Here's something you're probably not thinking about when you're brushing your teeth, changing the little one's diaper, and putting on deodorant in the morning: before you even make it to the breakfast table, you've probably used almost 15 personal care products with over 100 host of toxic ingredients. The chemicals in your face cream, your diaper cream, your shampoo, and your lipstick have been linked to cancer, birth defects, infertility, and a long list of health concerns.
Over 1,700 cancer-causing, hormone disrupting, and allergy-inducing substances have been banned or restricted in European personal care products. But, many of these same harmful substances can still be found in Canadian products. And Health Canada doesn't even know everything that's in the cosmetics we use every day. Find out more about how these substance affect you, and where to find safer alternatives.
We think Canadians have enough to worry about in the mornings. We deserve to be kept informed and safe from toxic substances in our cosmetics. It's time that Canadian cosmetic laws got a makeover. For you, for all of us. Now.
Please sign the petition here:
http://environmentaldefence.ca/tell-canada-make-sure-were-just-beautiful
To: The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health
We can't believe that harmful substances are allowed in our cosmetics and personal care products, and that you yourself don't know everything that's in them. That's why we're asking that the Cosmetic Ingredient Hotlist and that ingredient disclosure in Canada be given a make-over. To help us make healthier purchasing decisions we ask that you:
Expand the Hotlist: Ban all substances banned in Europe, and all substances known or suspected of being cancer-causing, mutagenic, reproductive toxicants, developmental toxicants, neurotoxicants, and hormone disruptors. Canada, like Europe, must also have the law written so it is clear that using Canadian Hotlist-prohibited substances in personal care products, or improperly using Canadian Hotlist-restricted substances in personal care products, is illegal.
Require disclosure: Manufacturers or distributors should disclose all substances, intentional ingredients and unintentional ingredients (e.g., impurities), in their products without exception, both freely online before products hit the market and on labels.
So in modernizing the Cosmetics Regulations, please ban the worst (with clear legal authority) and ensure that you and we are told everything so that we can all be Just Beautiful.
Thank you.
Sincerely,