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A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients
Complete Information About the Harmful and Desirable Ingredients in Cosmetics and Cosmeceuticals (Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients)
by Ruth Winter
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Paperback: 576 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press; 6 Rev Upd (March 22 2005)
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Take the guesswork out of choosing safe and effective cosmetics and cosmeceuticals. You wouldn't eat something without knowing what it was. Don't you want to take the same care with what you put on your face, hair, and body?



Book Description

Take the guesswork out of choosing safe and effective cosmetics and cosmeceuticals.

You wouldn't eat something without knowing what it was. Don't you want to take the same care with what you put on your face, hair, and body? Find out what's in your health and beauty products with Ruth Winter's A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients. This updated and expanded sixth edition gives you all the facts you need to protect yourself and your family from possible irritants, confusing chemical names, or exaggerated claims of beauty from gimmick additives.

Virtually every chemical found in toiletries, cosmetics, and cosmeceuticals—from body and face creams to toothpaste, hand lotion, shaving cream, shampoo, soap, perfume, and makeup—is evaluated in this book, including those ingredients marketed as being all-natural, for children, and for people of color. The alphabetical arrangement makes it easy to look up the ingredients in the products you use.

With new substances popping up in products we utilize every day—and with the continuing deregulation of the cosmetics industry—A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients is more indispensable than ever.

About the Author

Ruth Winter, M.S.

Ruth Winter, M.S., is an award-winning science writer who is nationally known for her many books and for her magazine articles in Family Circle, Woman's Day, Omni, and Reader's Digest. She is also the author of A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients and A Consumer's Dictionary of Medicines: Prescription, Over-the-Counter, Homeopathic, and Herbal.

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