Sharima Rasanayagam, PhD, director of science at the Breast Cancer Fund, San Francisco. She was also the founding academic coordinator at the UC Berkeley Institute for the Environment. Rick Smith, PhD, executive director of the Broadbent Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, a progressive Canadian think tank, and former executive director of the nonprofit Environmental Defence Canada. Dr. Smith is the coauthor, with Bruce Lourie, of Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things and Toxin Toxout: Getting Harmful Chemicals Out of Our Bodies and Our World.
By the time a woman steps out of her door in the morning, she’s applied an average of nine personal-care…
