But it was not because the public does not deserve safer cosmetics!

As Stacy Malkan posted on her blog; “The bill was sponsored by the Colorado Women’s Lobby, not the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, and was an attempt to protect consumers from being exposed to the worst chemicals used in cosmetics.

Contrary to some claims, the bill would not have banned olive oil or any other natural food-grade ingredients, but only chemicals that are already banned from cosmetics in the EU, and which also appear on other authoritative bodies’ lists of chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm (EPA, NTP, IARC and NOISH) – about 15 chemicals in all, most of which are not ever used by small companies.”

What is missing from this list is the Skin Deep database, or perhaps I’m missing something. 90% of what I’ve been reading in blogs and on facebook and in tweets…is how the Skin Deep database is wrong. Where did this bill identify the EWG or the Skin Deep database as having any authoritative weight in determining whether or not an ingredient caused cancer?

I’d like to know what the same industry leaders who were so quick to rally around the “cause” when it might cost their clients money, are planning to do to work toward safer cosmetics.

Why are small, independent cosmetics crafters and ingredient suppliers joking about the “bad science” behind the bill when comments like “a person would have to take 700 baths a day for 70 years in order for the substance to become potentially harmful” are not based in any science or anything really, other than sarcasm.

Why is Proctor and Gamble willing to reformulate their product lines to remove 1,4-dioxane but small, artisan, Indie and handmade companies are rallying around their right to continue to use it?