Comments on: Why Good Regulatory Policies Will Help Small, Independent Businesses http://notjustaprettyface.org/blog/why-good-regulatory-policies-will-help-small-independent-businesses The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:35:45 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Marcia Elston http://notjustaprettyface.org/blog/why-good-regulatory-policies-will-help-small-independent-businesses/comment-page-1#comment-22961 Marcia Elston Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:30:58 +0000 http://notjustaprettyface.org/?p=1755#comment-22961 Hello again Stacy, Please read this excellent Powerpoint presentation from friend and colleague Tony Burfield at Cropwatch. http://bit.ly/9fSs4e You will find other good blogposts at http://www.aromaconnection.org as well that will provide information you are not familiar with regarding the natural aromatics industry. Thank you. Marcia Elston Samara Botane/Nature Intelligence Hello again Stacy,

Please read this excellent Powerpoint presentation from friend and colleague Tony Burfield at Cropwatch. http://bit.ly/9fSs4e You will find other good blogposts at http://www.aromaconnection.org as well that will provide information you are not familiar with regarding the natural aromatics industry.

Thank you.
Marcia Elston
Samara Botane/Nature Intelligence

]]> By: Vena Ploetz http://notjustaprettyface.org/blog/why-good-regulatory-policies-will-help-small-independent-businesses/comment-page-1#comment-22738 Vena Ploetz Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:32:39 +0000 http://notjustaprettyface.org/?p=1755#comment-22738 First of all I'd like to say, great article! I've got a big question nagging me, I really like the theme of your website and tried to install the same theme on my WP site. Anyhow, there is some kind of strange php error in the footer. Do you have any tips, which version are you using? Please PM me on Twitter @HealthNSweets or via e-mail. First of all I’d like to say, great article! I’ve got a big question nagging me, I really like the theme of your website and tried to install the same theme on my WP site. Anyhow, there is some kind of strange php error in the footer. Do you have any tips, which version are you using? Please PM me on Twitter @HealthNSweets or via e-mail.

]]> By: Susan Apito http://notjustaprettyface.org/blog/why-good-regulatory-policies-will-help-small-independent-businesses/comment-page-1#comment-22703 Susan Apito Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:42:54 +0000 http://notjustaprettyface.org/?p=1755#comment-22703 >putting lots of effort into the curvy new bottle (and apparently not much thought into the chemicals in it). Well...since that article was written the brand and 18 others are being changed, for the better! ANAHEIM, CA - On Friday March 12, 2010, the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), ...announced the details of an agreement from Procter and Gamble (P&G) to reformulate 18 products from its top-selling Herbal Essences brand to reduce levels of the carcinogenic petrochemical 1,4-dioxane. http://www.organicconsumers.org/bodycare/index.cfm I understand your focus seems to be directed toward small, independent businesses in order to mend fences between the "pro-Colorado Safe Cosmetics Bill" folks and the fans and followers of the "anti-Colorado Safe Cosmetics Bill," led by Donna Maria, president of the Indie Beauty Network. I applaud that..there are an awful lot of folks out there who know nothing more than what they learn though a barrage of twitter tweets and Facebook wall posts...and honestly 140 characters of "opinions" are doing far more harm than good. So thank you for having this Blog and for allowing comments! Some of us care more about the ingredients in the products, than the size of the business selling them. And if P&G can eliminate 1,4-dioxane in their products, and the small, independent businesses want to retain or gain their customers...they'd better stop fighting for their "right" to keep using these toxic ingredients and find a way to eliminate them, too. If a small business is going to create hazardous products I don't really care if they are making the products in their kitchens and their lifestyle depends on "business as usual"...as long as the priority is money instead of safety, we all lose. >putting lots of effort into the curvy new bottle (and apparently not much thought into the chemicals in it).

Well…since that article was written the brand and 18 others are being changed, for the better!

ANAHEIM, CA – On Friday March 12, 2010, the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), …announced the details of an agreement from Procter and Gamble (P&G) to reformulate 18 products from its top-selling Herbal Essences brand to reduce levels of the carcinogenic petrochemical 1,4-dioxane.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/bodycare/index.cfm

I understand your focus seems to be directed toward small, independent businesses in order to mend fences between the “pro-Colorado Safe Cosmetics Bill” folks and the fans and followers of the “anti-Colorado Safe Cosmetics Bill,” led by Donna Maria, president of the Indie Beauty Network.

I applaud that..there are an awful lot of folks out there who know nothing more than what they learn though a barrage of twitter tweets and Facebook wall posts…and honestly 140 characters of “opinions” are doing far more harm than good. So thank you for having this Blog and for allowing comments!

Some of us care more about the ingredients in the products, than the size of the business selling them. And if P&G can eliminate 1,4-dioxane in their products, and the small, independent businesses want to retain or gain their customers…they’d better stop fighting for their “right” to keep using these toxic ingredients and find a way to eliminate them, too.

If a small business is going to create hazardous products I don’t really care if they are making the products in their kitchens and their lifestyle depends on “business as usual”…as long as the priority is money instead of safety, we all lose.

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