Personal Care Products

Let’s Talk About Hair: Roundtable on Haircare Products & Health with Hair Salon Owners & Employees

Calling All Hair Salon Owners & Employees: Roundtable on Haircare Products & Health Do you own or work for a hair salon in Northern Manhattan? As part of our Beauty Inside Out campaign, we want to talk about hair and haircare products

WE ACT is Disappointed with the Fiscal Year 2022-23 New York State Budget

WE ACT is Disappointed with the Fiscal Year 2022-23 New York State Budget New York State Governor Kathy Hochul and the Legislature Fail to Adequately Fund Environmental and Climate Justice Initiatives FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 13, 2022 Contact: Chris

New York State Environmental Health Advocacy Day

Join us for our JustGreen Partnership virtual advocacy day from 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM EST on Wednesday, February 16. We’ll be asking New York State policymakers to advance environmental health and justice legislation, such as eliminating toxic chemicals in

Beauty Inside Out Partnership with Safer Chemicals Healthy Families Mind the Store – June 22, 2020

A June 22, 2020 Safer Chemicals Healthy Families blog post announcing the partnership between its Mind the Store campaign and WE ACT’s Beauty Inside Out campaign showcased an excerpt from a WE ACT blog post written by former intern Leslie

MEMBERS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE LEADERSHIP FORUM URGE U.S. SENATE TO VOTE ‘NO” ON CONFIRMATION OF NANCY BECK AS CHAIR OF THE CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 18, 2020 Contact: Dana Johnson, 773-495-1677, dana@weact.org WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation convened a hearing to consider nominees for key positions at several agencies including the Consumer

Embracing Beauty Inside Out: My Journey to Clean Beauty

As I sat in the beauty salon chair, flinching from the sensation of the heat over my edges, I repeated to myself, “beauty is pain and pain is beauty.” That was the affirmation of an 11-year old girl who believed

Beauty Inside Out: Webinar on the Impacts of Toxic Chemicals on Women and Girls of Color

Stronger Regulations Are Needed To Ensure That Girls And Women Of Color Have Less Exposure To Toxic Chemicals In Personal Care Products The beauty, hair and personal care industries are growing in step with consumer demands for cost-effective, culturally relevant,

Uptown Chats presents Beauty Inside Out

Beauty Inside Out: A Panel Discussion on Toxic Ingredients in Beauty Products Join us for a candid conversation on racial bias in beauty standards, how it results in toxic products being marketed to women of color, and what we can

WE ACT Celebrates New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo Signing the Period Products Labeling Act

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 11, 2019 Contact: Chris Dobens, 212-961-1000 ext. 320, chris@weact.org ALBANY, NY — New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed the Period Products Labeling Act into law today, legislation that requires manufacturers selling period products

WE ACT Supports the Safe Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Act of 2019

Today Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) introduced a landmark bill—the Safe Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Act of 2019. It is the only federal cosmetic safety legislation that would immediately ban more than a dozen of the worst toxic chemicals from