Ami Zoda

And we have found that lotion, because it like sits on your skin for a long time, you're not rinsing it off, is actually an important one.

Or you can avoid foundations and stuff like that that are supposed to be super long lasting.

Well, if it's really long lasting, that's often being accomplished through chemicals like the forever chemicals are added to make it being, you know, to like really sit on your face for many, many hours.

Maybe not a bad thing.

You know, when we talked about beauty justice, you know, really, it's also the right of people to be able to present themselves and use the products they want to use without having to risk their health, right?

And so the goal is not to police everyone's behavior or the products they use, but to help give them tools.

Companies respond to consumer pressure, right?

And consumer demand.

And so you have a lot of power with your dollar.

And either asking companies to make safer hair products, especially that will serve the needs of Black women and other women of color is, you know, in and of itself really powerful because federal policy just takes a really, really long time.

And then also, I think, to have conversations, just everyday conversations about, you know,

how do we kind of choose how to show up in the world, right?

And so much of that gets shaped when we're young and to sort of be intentional about having those conversations with, especially with the next generation.