Beauty Industry

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    Are attitudes towards Muslim women shifting? Here's what they have to say

    The Muslim female body often becomes the symbol of militarized progress and repressive piety. But the younger generation of Muslim-American women is challenging these misconceptions and changing the status quo. They are redefining what it means to be fashionable, female, Muslim, and American.

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    An investor said this CEO was too overweight to sell cosmetics. Now she runs a billion-dollar company.

    A potential investor once doubted that women would buy beauty products from Jamie Kern Lima. He doesn’t doubt her now.

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    MPs Call For Beauty Companies To Ban Microbeads

    According to MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee, 680 tons of the tiny plastic balls are used in the UK each year and just one shower can wash up to 100,000 microbeads down the plughole and into the world’s seas. The problem is that because the beads are so small they are not filtered out by water treatment centres, which means they escape into the sea where they can be eaten by wildlife, and then enter the food chain.