Healthy Beauty: Your Guide to Ingredients to Avoid and Products You Can Trust

by Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald

Anti-aging products are the fastest growing sector of the cosmetics industry as women and men are becoming rapidly more obsessed with looking and feeling young. Splashy ads and commercials are everywhere we turn, promising to keep our appearances fresh and our partners satisfied.

But do consumers really know what they’re applying to their faces and bodies in their quests for youth and beauty? Do they know the health risks they’re taking by simply applying lipstick, face moisturizer or deodorant? Toxic beauty products clutter the shelves at retail stores everywhere, and consumers don’t know the avoidable risks they’re taking by following a simple beauty regimen.

Written by Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, a founder and chairperson of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, Healthy Beauty gives the lowdown on salon safety, health risks hiding in everyday products, how we put our children in danger and more. Healthy Beauty will also educate you and your family on easily implemented solutions through the use of a variety of positive alternatives.

In Healthy Beauty, you will learn:
•-How beauty products can affect your children before they’re born
•-The brutal carelessness producers use when creating products for women and children
•-The risks taken when you step into a salon
•-Toxins in men’s products such as deodorant, cologne and aftershave
•-How to protect yourself and your family by reading labels and identifying potentially hazardous ingredients

Through the help of Dr. Epstein and Healthy Beauty, you can protect yourself from the possible long-term effects of a simple beauty product.

296 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2010

Reviews

[Angela · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was very eye opening. While reading it, I downloaded an app called "Think Dirty: Buy Clean" and went through my bathroom cabinets. I now have a trash can full of products that are known to contain carcinogens and hormone disrupters.

[Anna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very dense and technical, but informative.

[Maria · Rating 4 out of 5]

A book every woman should read. I know of Dr. Samuel Epstein MD. because he was a prominent cancer researcher and a friend of mine wrote recently about working with him in linking certain chemicals to disease. I looked at his work and was impressed with his decades of work looking at how the environment influences cancer. He was head of the Cancer Prevention Coalition. This book is useful as it lists studies linking commonly used beauty chemicals and items to toxic ingredients and so that woman can better live both beautifully and healthily he also lists alternative products and companies that offer safe and better solutions. I think I read the book in a day and I took away what I needed to make sure both me and my girls use products that are safe, and still help us feel beautiful

[Liz · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very important book about the toxins we put on our bodies and faces every day and how to choose safe alternatives.