Filmmaker Phyllis Ellis hopes to send you scrambling to the shower to search out labels on your soap and shampoo. After all, her eye-opening documentary Toxic Beauty (trailer below; streaming now on CBC Gem) not only follows the class-action suit against Johnson & Johnson—and the company’s cancer-linked baby powder—but Ellis also uncovers an unregulated amalgam […]
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Forest Child Natural Beauty grows up
After making 2017 the year of planning, 2018 is the year of doing for Olivia McMackin, founder of Forest Child Natural Beauty which brings high-performance makeup, skincare and hair brands to the east coast. “I decided to let it be a little whatever it wants to be. Let’s see how it goes and what people […]

