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Committee lays over $100,000 biennial grant for Beauty Well Project to tackle toxic skin-lightening products
Summary
House File 1885 would appropriate $100,000 in FY2026 and $100,000 in FY2027 to the Minnesota Department of Health for the Beauty Well Project to run outreach, education and testing addressing skin-lightening products that contain mercury and other toxic ingredients; multiple community organizations testified in support and the bill was laid over.
Representative Perez Vega presented House File 1885, a bill to appropriate $100,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $100,000 in fiscal year 2027 to the commissioner of health for the Beauty Well Project for public awareness and education on colorism and the chemical exposures associated with skin-lightening products.
Amira Adawi, executive director of the Beauty Well Project, said testing by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and the Minnesota Department of Health found mercury levels in some…
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