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16-year-old sees the beauty in her line of nontoxic cosmetics

Ava Anderson (pictured at her office in Warren, R.I.) launched Ava Anderson Non-Toxic skin-care products last December with cleanser, toner, moisturizer, exfoliant, lip scrub, and eye makeup remover. She’s since added lip gloss and lipsticks. Ava Anderson (pictured at her office in Warren, R.I.) launched Ava Anderson Non-Toxic skin-care products last December with cleanser, toner, moisturizer, exfoliant, lip scrub, and eye makeup remover. She’s since added lip gloss and lipsticks. (Aram Boghosian For The Boston Globe)
By Alyssa Giacobbe
Globe Correspondent / July 22, 2010

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More from the annals of the ultra-ambitious teen: After watching a news report detailing the levels of hazardous chemicals found in the bloodstream of beauty product-obsessed teenagers (and that’s nearly all of them), 16-year-old Ava Anderson bypassed ye olde science fair to develop a commercial line of cleaner, healthier skin-care products and cosmetics: Ava Anderson Non-Toxic. (Full article: 664 words)

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