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Publications and Media
General Information | Education | Research | Policy | In the Media
Collaborative Publications
Toxic Beauty No More! Health and Safety of Vietnamese Nail Salon Workers in Southern California – English
July 2011California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative Brochure
Toxic Trio wallet card
(updated August 2010)
Framing a Research Agenda to Advance Worker Health and Safety in the Nail Salon and Cosmetology Communities
(April 2010)
Overexposed and Underinformed: Dismantling Barriers to Health and Safety in California Nail Salons
(April 2009)General Information
Mani-Pedis Go Green
by Momo Chang, published in Hyphen Magazine. (Summer 2009)
Pedicures at What Price?
by Rona L. Sherriff, the California Senate Office on Research. (December 2008)Education
Disinfectant Overkill: How Too Clean May Be Hazardous to Our Health (English, Spanish)
by Women’s Voices for the Earth. (November 2009)
Disinfectants Horror Show
A video by Women’s Voices for the Earth. (November 2009)
Healthy Nail Salons Brochure by King County Local Hazardous Waste Management Program, Environmental Coalition of South Seattle and Community Coalition for Environmental Justice (August 2009)Techniques to Achieve Naturally Healthy Hair by Environmental Finance Center, Region 9 (2010)
Phasing Out the Toxic Trio
by the National Healthy Nail Salon Alliance
• Full Report (currently being updated)
• Fact Sheet (currently being updated)
• Wallet Card (currently being updated)
Research
Mapping The Nail Industry: Personal Care Industry Information and Profiles of Leading Cosmetics, Beauty Store and Nail Care Product Companies by Environmental Finance Region 9 and the CA Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative (2010)
Compilation of Research on Occupational Exposure to Chemicals in Salons
A bibliography of journal articles by the National Healthy Nail Salon Alliance (January 2010)Workforce Demographics and Context Setting
by Julia Liou, Asian Health ServicesWorkforce Demographics and Context Setting (Cont’d.)
by Lenh Tsan, Asian Law CaucusEnvironmental Health & Ethnic Hair Care
by Jessica Counts-Arnold, CA EPA Region 9Federal Oversight and Cosmetics Manufacturers: The Need for Policy Reform to Advance Worker Health and Safety
by Jamie Silberberger, Women’s Voices for the EarthHow Can Working in a Nail Salon Effect your Health?
by Cora Roelofs, University of Massachusetts LowellCancer Risk in California Cosmetologists and Manicurists
by Thu Quach and Peggy Reynolds, Cancer Prevention Institute of CANail Salon Industrial Hygiene Evaluation
by Tuan Nguyen & Evelyn Tovar, State Compensation Insurance FundHealthy Nail Salon Project: Reducing Chemical Exposures in Nail Salons
by Laurie Foster, Local Hazardous Waste Management ProgramGreen Chemistry and Chemicals Policy
by Megan Schwarzman, UC Berkeley Center for Environmental and Occupational HealthImplementing the California Safe Cosmetics Act
by Michael DiBartolomeis, California Safe Cosmetics ProgramPollution Prevention for Nail Salons
by Mary Kathleen Lau, California Department of Toxic Substances ControlGreen or Greenwash?
by Mark Deason, AquarellaCampaign for Safe Cosmetics
by Stacy Malkan, Campaign for Safe CosmeticsPolicy
Related Work
Looking Both Ways: Women’s Lives at the Crossroads of Reproductive Justice and Climate Justice
by Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice in partnership with the New Orleans Women’s Health and Justice Initiative. (2009)In the Media
Print and Online
Nail Salon Recognition Program Passes in San Francisco
Center for Environmental Health. (November 2010)
At Some Nail Salons, Feeling Pretty and Green
New York Times. (November 2010)
SF Nail Salons Encouraged to Go Organic and Non-Toxic
KQED. (October 2010)San Francisco Nail Salons Encouraged to Use Non-Toxic Polish
Environment News Service & Alternet.org. (October 2010)Mani-Pedis Go Green
Hyphen Magazine. (Summer 2009)
Glossed over: Cosmetic Toxins and Reproductive Justice
SisterSong’s Collective Voices. (Summer 2009)Radio
S.F. Supes OK Nail Salon Plan
KQED. (October 2010)Risky Beauty Business
American Public Media. (October 2009)Organizing Asian immigrant women and the CA Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative
KPFK. (July 2009)
