Toxic Beauty - Full Documentary

Toxic Beauty is a 2019 Canadian-American documentary film about exposure to dangerous chemical substances from commonly trusted beauty products such as baby powder. The film investigates the virtually unregulated chemicals in personal-care products and follows a class action lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson and the plaintiffs.

Toxic Beauty addresses the attitude of silence around carcinogenic and hormone-disrupting substances found in previously approved and popular cosmetic items in the US cosmetics market.

The film interviews doctors, lawyers, and scientists to explore how products are made, and compares a long struggle with the cosmetics industry to decades of public pressure for reforms against the tobacco industry in the 1960s. Thousands of dangerous chemicals in popular cosmetic products in the USA are unregulated, not even requiring appropriate warning labels when toxic substances have been identified.

Directed by Phyllis Ellis