Colorado Kills Bill to Prohibit Harmful Chemicals in Cosmetics

Updated: March 6th, 2010 | We Wanna Hear from You

Colorado lawmakers killed a bill that would have prohibited the sale of toiletries and cosmetics that contain 15 harmful chemicals, including formaldehyde and arsenic.

It would have been the toughest of any state regulating cosmetics ingredients. Since there’s no clear science linking the products in trace amounts to cancer – and many of the chemicals appear elsewhere in the environment – it might be better if next time lawmakers simply went the disclosure route, requiring companies to tell us what potentially dangerous chemicals are in their products. And then consumers can decide if they want to slather it on their heads and faces.

Printed in The Denver Post newspaper, March 6, 2010.