Personal Care Products Council
Jill Marvin
Lisa Powers
Kathleen Dezio
Based in Washington, D.C., the Personal Care Products Council is the leading national trade association representing the $250 billion global cosmetic and personal care products industry. Founded in 1894, the Council's more than 600 member companies manufacture, distribute, and supply the vast majority of finished personal care products marketed in the U.S. As the makers of a diverse range of products millions of consumers rely on everyday, from sunscreens, toothpaste and shampoo to moisturizer, lipstick and fragrance, personal care products companies are global leaders committed to product safety, quality and innovation.
July 1, 2008
Written by: Lisa Powers
Just in time for summer, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) releases a report targeting sunscreens. This irresponsible attack is an unjustified attempt to discredit an extensive, long-standing body of scientific data. Sunscreens have been thoroughly studied and tested, and used...
June 19, 2008
Written by: Lisa Powers
A recent posting on a Web site states that our chief scientist John Bailey defends the use of "toxic chemicals" in cosmetics and personal care products. The issue in question is mercury, which was used years ago as a preservative in...
May 2, 2008
Written by: Lisa Powers
Jeffrey Hollender's recent entry on Huffingtonpost.com titled, "There's Lead in Your Lipstick: What Cosmetic Companies Aren't Telling You" certainly grabs your attention, but that's all it does. Sadly, entries like this are floating around the Internet misleading and scaring consumers...
April 22, 2008
Written by: Kathleen Dezio
In an opinion piece in today's WSJ, Patrick Moore, a founder of Greenpeace, advocates for environmental stewardship based on science instead of politics. Moore notes a trend toward the abandonment of scientific objectivity and the use of fear campaigns to...
April 21, 2008
Written by: Kathleen Dezio
Last week, the London-based Cosmetic, Toiletry & Perfumery Association (CTPA) launched an interesting new Web site to address what it calls "widespread confusion" about chemicals. According to the group's research, more than half of all British consumers worry that the...
