beauty products

Not So Pretty - The Tea on Toxic Beauty Virtual Film Screening

December 3, 2025 | Virtual

Join Clean Water Action for “Not So Pretty” - a virtual film screening and community conversation uncovering the hidden dangers in everyday beauty and personal care products.

Walk the Talk: Beauty Justice + Breast Health

November 1, 2025 | Newark, NJ

This community-centered walk weaves environmental justice, beauty justice, goods movement, and public health into one powerful morning of movement and learning. Expect a mindful two-mile walk honoring survivors, interactive education stations, and a resource fair packed with safer-beauty tools and breast-health support.

Turning International I Love Braids Day Into a Day of Justice and Action

September 5, 2025 | By X Braithwaite

This is what justice looks like: communities coming together to demand more, to expect better, and to refuse to settle for harm disguised as beauty.

X Braithwaite and Tolani Taylor of Clean Water Action delivering petitions

The Tea on Toxic Beauty Workshop

September 24, 2025 | Newark, NJ

Join Clean Water Action, Nyah Beauty, and the Newark Green Team for a hands-on evening where we unpack the truth about toxic ingredients in beauty products—and craft safer alternatives you’ll love to use every day.

The Hidden Costs of Beauty: Understanding the Impacts of Toxic Products on Women of Color

February 26, 2025 | By X Braithwaite

Clean Water Action hosted The Hidden Costs of Beauty webinar to uncover the environmental and health impacts of beauty products marketed to Black women and other communities of color. This discussion brought together advocates, researchers, and community members to explore the intersections of beauty, health, and justice—and, more importantly, to chart a path forward.

graphic design for Clean Water Action's Hidden Costs of Beauty webinar

Image of X Braithwaite, Clean Water Action Environmental Justice Organizer

Beauty as Resistance: Where I Find My Strength

January 16, 2025 | By X Braithwaite

As an Environmental Justice Organizer who has worked in social justice spaces for nearly nine years, I am constantly uncovering new layers of how my identity has been shaped by systemic inequities. These discoveries are both painful and empowering, revealing the depth of the systems we are working to dismantle.