💄Energy and Commerce advances Safer Beauty Act targeting FDA gaps
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Representatives Jan Schakowsky and Frank Pallone reintroduced the Safer Beauty Bill Package July 21, 2025, requiring the $90 billion cosmetics industry to disclose toxic ingredients and ban cancer-causing chemicals. Industry lobbyists spent $50 million defeating similar legislation while one in eight beauty products contains substances banned in Europe for causing birth defects.
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Why This Matters
💄 Testing reveals 1,400 lipsticks contain lead and 800 foundations have formaldehyde
Major brands sell products with known carcinogens that accumulate in body tissue, while hiding ingredient lists behind "trade secret" claims.
👧 Teen girls targeted with 13 million daily social media ads for toxic products
TikTok influencers paid by beauty companies push mercury-laced skin lighteners and hormone-disrupting makeup to children.
🇪🇺 American makeup contains 1,300 chemicals banned in European Union since 2009
U.S. regulators allow formaldehyde releasers, coal tar dyes, and endocrine disruptors that EU prohibited for causing cancer and infertility.
📞 Support H.R.3421 forcing companies to list the poisons they're selling you
Call your representative at 202-224-3121—demand ingredient transparency so parents know what chemicals touch their children.
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Categorize these groups as 'winners' or 'losers' if H.R. 3421 were enacted.
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The Safer Beauty Bill Package would ban ______ and ______ among other toxic chemicals in cosmetics.
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Who reintroduced the Safer Beauty Bill Package on July 21, 2025?
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Which law, first passed in 1938, left cosmetics largely self-regulated until recent federal updates?
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Which industry group, representing about 90 percent of U.S. beauty companies, opposed the Safer Beauty Bill Package?
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Which advocacy group documented that 80 percent of over 4,000 products marketed to Black women were rated moderate to high hazard?
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The Safer Beauty Bill Package requires cosmetics companies to fully disclose all ingredients, including fragrance chemicals.
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