Why makeup companies able to give BC patients toxic products?

cp418 · October 2015

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/...

Why are makeup companies able to give breast cancer patients toxic products?

Cosmetics are notoriously full of chemicals, and kits the American Cancer Society and makeup companies are giving to patients include them.

Fallleaves · October 2015

Infuriating! The ACS should INSTEAD be pressuring those companies to remove suspected carcinogens and endocrine disruptors from their products. That would actually help all women.

cp418 · October 2015

This is the politics behind cancer whether it is consumer products or promising research that is denied funding.

rozem · October 2015

in my look good feel better class I got a box of expired, chemically laden, out dated cosmetics. I mean its great that they are providing a free class but I felt that the cosmetic donors where just unloading expired, out dated inventory. Not to mention nothing was pure or clean.. I tossed it all

leggo · October 2015

Rozem, do you mean used stuff? Ewww. I just had a vision of them giving you the store samplers. Gross.

cp418 · October 2015

Rozem - I had the same experience. Products I would never have used and obviously stuff that stores were unable to sell. No not samplers - just junk products of weird colors.

Chloesmom · October 2015

In Look Good Feel Better ours was nice stuff. Brand names and all nice colors. Only the moisturizer was no good. Parabens. So much stuff has it. Someone gave me body lotion for a get well gift. Had parables in it

rozem · October 2015

leggo. No not used stuff ewww for real!!! Just crappy stuff like cp418 said. Old inventory, the colors were dated, all the lotions had parabens etc. yuck

I was the "model". I looked like a clown when they were done with me

cp418 · October 2015

rozem - I looked like Joan Crawford after they put super thick eyebrows in a very dark shade. Scary!!!

What were they thinking???

leggo · October 2015

That's the part I remember....looking like a clown. I was super pasty white and the lady doing it put a line of black dots where my eyebrows were supposed to be and then covered it with something else that was transparent brown so I looked like I had track marks on my brows. I didn't even get blush. She just used bright red lipstick on my cheeks and lips. I think the lady may have been a really incompetent mortician. I felt sooooo sick and I had to deal with scrubbing the crap off my face before I left the building. I can laugh about it now, but that day I just sat there bawling in my car.

leggo · October 2015

Hey Joan...I mean Cp. Too funny.

cp418 · October 2015

Yes! Those are the eyebrows the LGFG person painted on me!!! If I had hair I could have been the bride of Frankenstein!!

rozem · October 2015

hahahahahaha! I looked like this:

floaton · October 2015

Those are hilarious photos! How sad though that they made you look like that when you already felt bad, and with yucky chemicals too

. I really wish someone would re-start this with products and other support that show an actual concern for our health and well being, not just that they want people with cancer to "look good so other people will feel better," because of course, as women, we should protect others from any evidence of our suffering by looking pretty, regardless of the risk of unsafe products. Ugh.

mmtagirl · October 2015

just thought I would post that I had a wonderful experience with the Look Good Feel Better program in my area. The volunteer women that facilitated were very warm and supportive. I learned some new techniques that were helpful and I appreciated the quality cosmetics that were free. And, let's remember that chemicals are not all bad and they are everywhere.