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Campaign For Safe Cosmetics Unveils New Report

Names 400-plus firms setting new standards in safety.

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By: TOM BRANNA

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The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics has released a new report called Market Shift, which describes the seven-year project during which it has worked with companies through the Compact for Safe Cosmetics, the voluntary pledge to avoid chemicals banned in other countries, avoid harmful ingredients whenever possible and fully disclose product ingredients.

The Market Shift highlights the 321 cosmetics companies (which it calls “Champions”) that met the goals of the Compact. Another 111 companies (referred to as “Innovators”) made significant progress toward those goals. These 432 companies are leading the industry toward safety, showing it’s possible to make products without using the hazardous chemicals that are all too common in conventional personal care products, the group said yesterday upon release of the report.
More than 1,500 companies signed the Compact from its inception in 2004. The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics closed the Compact in August 2011.

According to the Campaign, the research team at Environmental Working Group’s Skin Deep database developed tools for tracking each company’s compliance with the goals of the Compact to determined their status.

The report describes how these companies – from small mom-and-pop businesses to some of the largest businesses in the natural products sector – are setting “a new high-bar standard for personal care products.”

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