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Handmade Soap Under Attack

“Big Cosmetic And Sen. Dianne Feinstein Go After Your Handmade Soap,” By Hank Campbell.
What do you have when someone declares that organic food should be separate from USDA oversight but organic soap should have special oversight if it is not made by a large corporation? A California politician. In this case, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who is obeying the wishes of every large cosmetics corporation and siccing the Food and Drug Administration on 300,000 primarily woman-owned handmade soap and lotion businesses – small potatoes to a $60 billion industry but she is doing it for them just the same. Read more.