The San Francisco Bay Area is ground zero for natural and organic - including skincare. Not coincidentally, it's also the home of the Breast Cancer Fund and the affiliated Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, as reported in the new issue of San Francisco Magazine:
[T]he activists decided to create the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, and turned to the San Francisco–based Breast Cancer Fund to host it. The powerful fund, the only national organization devoted solely to exploring the environmental causes of breast cancer, has also helped push laws banning toxic chemicals from toys and was instrumental in the 2003 passage of San Francisco’s pioneering Precautionary Principle ordinance, which requires the city, when making any decision, to choose the alternative that poses the least potential threat to health or the environment. Together, the CSC and the fund began to argue that cosmetics were a powerful teaching tool about the reach of toxic chemicals in our lives. (Read complete article.)
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