Women’s Voices For The Earth Will Keep After CIR, Salon Worker Safety In 2024

Women’s Voices for the Earth continues to call attention to cosmetic ingredients’ potential health impacts on users including salon workers, while pushing the Cosmetic Ingredient Review to consider a wider variety of safety information in its assessment work.

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NGO Women’s Voices for the Earth is committed to making consumers, companies and the Expert Panel for Cosmetic Ingredient Safety aware of possible harms from cosmetic ingredients and is pushing for the cosmetics industry to make changes.

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