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Author Kay, Gwen

Title Dying to be beautiful : the fight for safe cosmetics / Gwen Kay
Published Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 190 pages :) : illustrations
Series Women & health (Columbus, Ohio)
Contents "A victory of the women of this country" -- "The arts and crafts of the modern flapper" -- "Marring the fair face of nature" -- "Some protection to our health, our looks and our pocketbooks" -- "The big cosmetic houses aren't sorry that the regulation has come."
Summary Tells the story of how cosmetics came to be regulated in early 20th century America. Examines the cosmetics industry in light of the 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT United States Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
Subject Cosmetics -- Health aspects -- United States -- History
Cosmetics industry -- United States -- History
Cosmetics -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History
Cosmetics -- adverse effects
Cosmetics -- history
Legislation, Drug -- history
Health Policy -- history
Women's Health -- history
Cosmetics -- Health aspects
Cosmetics industry
Cosmetics -- Law and legislation
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004021551
ISBN 9780814272879
0814272878
9780814209905
0814209904