‘Toxic Beauty’ Documentary And The Growing Conversation Around ‘Clean’ Alternatives

Dermatologists and industry advocates are concerned about the public’s lack of trust in science and potentially misplaced faith in “clean” beauty, which “Toxic Beauty” screenings in the US, Canada and UK likely are only reinforcing.

Shocked young couple eating popcorn and watching movie together while sitting at the cinema

“What if the next biggest chemical disaster is happening inside us?” asks a documentary, “Toxic Beauty,” that has been screening in the US, Canada and UK in recent months.

Directed by Phyllis Ellis, a field hockey Olympian turned filmmaker, and produced by White Pine Pictures, Toxic Beauty showed...

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