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1. Environment and Health in Europe:
Advocacy and Capacity Building Training Programme
Roundtable discussion summary
Moving from policy to action:
Success stories on taking the environment and health agenda forward
Title of presentation: Getting Lippy about cosmetics…
Brief description of advocacy campaign or activity:
Linking the concern for certain toxic chemicals in cosmetics to the REACH initiative – although this
legislation does not cover cosmetics it will cover certain raw ingredients. Educating consumers about
the potentially harmful ingredients used in their cosmetics. Encouraging them to ask questions and
write to retailers and manufacturers. Tackling retailers about the products they sell and links between
certain ingredients and breast cancer, reproductive disorders, and allergies. Giving workshops,
distributing briefings, seminars, media work to raise awareness.
Description of deliverables / outputs:
Briefing document – Getting Lippy. Cosmetics Pack – information on how to do a toxic tour of your
bathroom, how to make your own cosmetics, ingredients of concern, lsit of companies who make
greener products, and more. Factsheets- 12 on advertising, baby products, hair straightening, colour
cosmetics, making your own cosmetics, hair dye and more. Report – Pretty Nasty.
Description of factors making the activity a success:
Information material, workshops, media exposure, Pretty nasty report on phthalates in cosmetics.
Letting the Genie out of the Bottle, the seminar which brought together green and mainstream
cosmetics and toiletries companies, high street and specialist retailers, environmental groups and
consumers to explore what companies are doing already to reduce the use of potentially harmful
chemicals and what more they can do.
Lessons learned:
The importance of good research. Spending time in the preparation of materials and workshops.
Talking to all stakeholders to learn the issues so you can better present your argument. Looking at the
underlying reason why people use these products and also addressing this in the course of the
campaigns. For example with cosmetics, women and increasing men and young people feeling social
pressure and the strategic marketing by the cosmetics companies playing on our insecurities to sell us
their products.
Contact information:
Helen Lynn
Women’s Environmental Network
PO Box 30626
London E1 1TZ
UK
Tel: 00 44 207 481 9004
E-mail: health@wen.org.uk
Web: www.wen.org.uk