What are the chemicals of concern in our beauty products and what can we do to make safer beauty decisions? Dr. Tamarra James-Todd is joined by Dr. Robin Dodson from the Silent Spring Institute to discuss not only what these chemicals are but also what is driving these inequities in beauty product chemical exposures. They also discuss ways to empower consumers and hold regulatory agencies and beauty product manufacturers accountable to achieve beauty justice.
What are the chemicals of concern in our beauty products and what can we do to make safer beauty decisions? Dr. Tamarra James-Todd is joined by Dr. Robin Dodson from the Silent Spring Institute to discuss not only what these chemicals are but also what is driving these inequities in beauty product chemical exposures. They also discuss ways to empower consumers and hold regulatory agencies and beauty product manufacturers accountable to achieve beauty justice.
Dr. Robin Dodson is the Associate Director of Research Operations and a Research Scientist at the Silent Spring Institute. She has expertise in exposure assessment with a focus on semi-volatile organic compounds and oversees the Institute’s consumer product exposure research. She completed her doctorate in Environmental Health at Harvard Chan. You can follow Robin and her work here: Twitter- @robinedodson; Silent Spring Institute- https://silentspring.org/
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For a full transcript, visit our website: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/james-toddlab/beauty-justice-podcast-0