At Some Nail Salons, Feeling Pretty and Green

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/11/us/11nails.html?_r=1&ref=earth

At Some Nail Salons, Feeling Pretty and Green
By: Patricia Leigh Brown

An eco-friendly nail salon was opened in San Francisco. This "green" nail salon uses organic nail polishes to reduce the toxic chemicals that are typically released in nail salons. San Francisco has just passed the first Healthy Nail Salon Recognition ordinance, which will help keep nail technicians safe by protecting them from the dangerous chemicals that are found in these salons. These chemicals have been linked to reproduction and health problems of the nail technicians, so it is important to try and make them safer.

The bias is pro-environmentalist. The author clearly favors this new form of nail salons. However, the author does seem to doubt how many salons will become "green" because most workers don't realize the dangers they are facing every day at work.


This article was published in the New York Times on November 10, 2010.
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