Two Sides to Every Story

Trade association Personal Care Products Council (PCPC) - formally the CTFA - is trying to fight back against recent health scares and accusations of the industry, saying that "good science should guide good decision making."

John Bailey, Ph.D, is the chief scientist at the PCPC, said that the claims of lead in lipstick were "simply not true." He said that the scare tactics used by organizations to show that "grave dangers lie on cosmetics shelves" mislead the public.

The internet - having changed the way we communicate - has increased the ability for lobby groups to disseminate information. This is great, but at the same time, you simply cannot take everything you read on the internet to be true. "Readers have to be critical," he noted, and seek out difference sources of information - not just lobby groups. (This goes true for everything, we think.) One such possibility is the website www.cosmeticsinfo.org. Why not? There are two sides to every story...