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Dying to Be Beautiful: The Fight for Safe Cosmetics. By Gwen Kay. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2005. xii, 190 pp. Cloth, $64.95, ISBN 0-8142-0990-4. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8142-5138-2.)
Most Americans, when they think about it at all, assume that cosmetic surgeries, and not cosmetics on their own, pose risks for consumers. One can imagine Botox permanently freezing up facial expressions, but it is more of a stretch to envision death by lipstick. This feeling of security on the part of consumers of hair dyes, lipsticks, and cleansing creams, however, was hard fought and hardly remains a given. Gwen Kay's examination of the history of government regulation of cosmetics in the twentieth century provides a compelling portrait of the myriad individuals, groups, and agencies that made the regulation of cosmetics a governmental responsibility. . . .
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