In Conversation with Boma-Brown West: Pursuing a Unified Definition of Clean Beauty
“Clean” has grown to dominate the growth in the beauty sector, with prestige beauty brands claiming to be clean surging 39 percent in 2019 and doubling their share of high-end skincare sales in the last four years.
ChemFORWARD Executive Director Stacy Glass sat down to talk with Boma Brown-West, director of consumer health at Environmental Defense Fund. Brown-West is an engineer who works at the intersection of science, policy and corporate leadership to drive safer products in the retail marketplace. Glass leads a nongovernmental organization working to provide a shared database of chemical hazards and safer alternatives, allowing companies to use better information to make safer products.
2020 Messages we Loved and Voices we Want to Amplify
From plastic to paint, from the most personal look at chemicals and health to one woman’s efforts to protect a state’s children, 2020 was full of meaningful and admirable work in the realm of safer chemistry and ingredient transparency. Here is a small list of some of the work that impressed and inspired us from the past 12 months.
ChemFORWARD, Collaboration and Safer Chemistry Featured in GreenBiz
"The work that ChemFORWARD is doing and proposes to do will provide important additional information to a community of organizations seeking real-world data to better understand the safety implications of their materials choices," said green chemistry trailblazer John C. Warner, a distinguished research fellow at synthetic biology startup Zymergen.
ChemFORWARD and ChemSec Marketplace Collaborate to Boost Availability of Safer Alternatives
“We foresee the synergies of this partnership potently accelerating industry adoption of safer alternatives across multiple sectors,” said Stacy Glass, executive director of ChemFORWARD.
ChemFORWARD’s comprehensive assessments of chemical hazards and alternatives complements ChemSec Marketplace’s superlative cataloguing and display of available alternatives. This exciting partnership will connect Marketplace’s users to full chemical hazard assessments while also linking ChemFORWARD’s assessments to Marketplace entries.