Dangerous Beauty Products

If Looks Could Kill

By Jolene Edgar
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the March 2007 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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Lead in lipsticks... microbes in mascara...hormones in shampoo...Should you be worried? Jolene Edgar gets to the bottom of the latest beauty scares.

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