Review
"The genius of this book is that it connects the reader to the issues and the solutions in an engaging way. A can-do roadmap to a better and more healthy life!"
---Dr. Rick Smith, executive director of Environmental Defence and bestselling author of Slow Death by Rubber Duck
"A wake-up call to ease the chemical burdens on our bodies and our planet."
---Sarah Harmer
"I love this book! ... A comprehensive book about what we need to know about the products we put on our bodies."
---Stacy Malkan, co-founder of Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and author of Not Just a Pretty Face
"A comprehensive, exhaustive and timely guidebook to the Great Unwash."
---Gord Downie
"A wake-up call for women of all ages to look beneath the gloss of the beauty industry."
---Emily Haines
Book Description
By the time she heads out the front door, the modern woman has spritzed, sudsed, and slathered herself in more than 127 different chemicals, many of them more toxic than beautifying.
So how can you look and feel great while safeguarding your health? Get smart and go green from head to toe with the help of eco-expert Gillian Deacon. In The Green Body Guide, you'll learn how to read the ingredients to identify and understand the preservatives that are bad for your body and damaging to the earth, including formaldehyde in deodorant, nail polish, soap, shampoo, and shaving cream; coal tar in hair dyes; lead in lipstick; and many more. This is an indispensable handbook of personal-care choices that are sustainable, both for your health and for the earth.
About the Author
Award-winning broadcaster and writer Gillian Deacon brings her informed and friendly style to the subject that has long been her passion. A busy working mom and host of CBC-TV's The Gill Deacon Show, she understands the challenges of trying to "do it all" with a smaller environmental footprint.
