TOXIC BEAUTY details the true cost of our collective overexposure to unregulated toxins through personal care products, and the causal link between talc and ovarian cancer. The chemicals we use and absorb each day in the name of beauty and hygiene are causing us great harm. Directed by Phyllis Ellis. Produced by White Pine Pictures. Conceived, Developed, and Associate Produced by Sarah Jay.
Because you’re worth it.
STREAM WITH THE FOLLOWING PLATFORMS
OFFICIAL SELECTION
AWARDS
PRESS
Are Your Beauty Products Safe? Why 'Clean Beauty' Isn't Always Enough.
While you'll see cosmetics described as natural, organic and ethical, "clean beauty" has no official definition. Here's what to watch out for.
Your Beauty Products Could be Making You Sick
Recent research findings have shown many toxic chemicals such as formaldehyde, triclosan, lead, mercury, toluene, hydroquinone, parabens and talc found in everyday products linked to disease and even death. This brings me to the documentary Toxic Beauty, which I had the privilege of helping promote to the media earlier this year.
The 2021 ELLE Green Beauty Stars
Meet the products, brands and film (Toxic Beauty) revolutionizing the way we care for ourselves - and the planet.
Toxic Beauty tops the list of most-watched CBC documentaries in 2020
This year kept us home, but looking for ways to explore and understand the world. Stream Toxic Beauty now to learn more about how unregulated ingredients in cosmetics and personal care products are making us sick.
Johnson & Johnson to End Talc-Based Baby Powder Sales in North America
The company has faced thousands of lawsuits from cancer patients who claim that its talc was contaminated with asbestos, a known carcinogen, and that the company knew of the risks.
Johnson & Johnson to stop selling baby powder in US and Canada
Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday said it would stop selling its talcum-based Johnson’s baby powder in the United States and Canada as part of a broad reassessment of its consumer product portfolio.
Johnson & Johnson Discontinues Talc-Based Baby Powder In US And Canada
Johnson & Johnson said it will no longer sell talcum-based baby powder in the U.S. and Canada after thousands of lawsuits have claimed that the product causes cancer, which the company has denied.
The Dirty Truth
With escalating concerns about the chemicals in everyday beauty products, a battle is raging online and, now, in D.C. Martha McCully investigates.
'Toxic Beauty' film explores how cosmetics are making us sick
The products we use to enhance beauty have an ugly track record.
Toxic Beauty Explores The Links Between Our Daily Products And Our Health
The Canadian documentary premieres at Hot Docs tonight.
Could Your Beauty Regimen Be More Harmful Than A Smoking Habit?
You never leave the house without your SPF 50+, apply an active serum and beauty influencer-approved night moisturiser before bed without fail and treat your skin to a bi-monthly facial.
But industry insiders say even the most virtuous skincare regimens could be doing as much damage to your body as cigarette smoke.
The New Toxic Beauty Documentary Asks: Are Skin-Care Products the New Cigarettes?
“A chemist for one of the biggest designer cosmetic brands in the world—I won’t say what the brand was, but you know it—called me to come in years ago, and I thought, Oh my God, this is huge,” recalls Rose-Marie Swift, makeup artist and founder of RMS Beauty.
The New 'Toxic Beauty' Documentary Shines a Light On the Dangers of Unregulated Cosmetics
Director Phyllis Ellis wants people to know that “we have no idea what’s in the products we’re using.”
'Toxic Beauty' Director Gives Clean Cosmetics Tips: "I'm Almost Afraid to Use Anything"
"We have no idea what's in the products we're using. That was really alarming," filmmaker Phyllis Ellis says of her investigation into the dangers of personal cosmetic products.
Review: ‘Toxic Beauty’ documentary reiterates that beauty is pain… and the industry knows all about it.
The first thing I did after the credits of Toxic Beauty rolled was rabidly google chemical names of the ingredients on the labels of our products. I filled a garbage can with bottles of all shapes and sizes. What have I been putting into my and my family’s systems?
‘Toxic Beauty’ Reveals the Hidden Poisons in Cosmetics—and the Legal Battles to Expose Them
“Toxic Beauty,” a new documentary by Phyllis Ellis, investigates the dangers of unregulated personal care products—and the culture that makes women continue to use toxic makeup.
TOXIC BEAUTY IS THE NEW FILM SHOWING HOW BEAUTY PRODUCTS ARE POISONING US
Director Phyllis Ellis and creator/researcher Sarah Jay give us the lowdown on the new documentary and the increasingly deadly, yet unregulated, issue.
What Am I Putting On My Kids? Documentary Toxic Beauty Investigates The Impacts Of Personal Care Chemicals
A documentarian with over a decade of experience, Phyllis Ellis didn’t expect “Toxic Beauty,” her newest film exploring the effects of chemicals in personal care products on consumers’ health, would be taken so personally by viewers. She’s been inundated with questions from people asking, “What am I doing? What am I going to do? What am I putting on my kids?”
Endocrine Disruptors in Perfume, Carcinogenic Baby Powder? A New Documentary on the Beauty Industry.
Baby powder is what did it for documentary filmmaker Phyllis Ellis. A field hockey player for over twenty years (she was on the Canadian Olympic team and competed in the 1984 Summer Games), she used it daily.
Johnson & Johnson Recalls Baby Powder Over Asbestos Worry.
Johnson & Johnson, which is facing thousands of lawsuits over its baby powder and other talc-based products, said it is initiating a recall in the United States “out of an abundance of caution.”
Toxic Beauty Documentary at ‘Meet the Press’ Film Festival Highlights Lack of Cosmetics Regulations in the U.S.
Chuck Todd wants to give more stringent cosmetics regulation the “Washington, D.C., stamp of approval.
