Paris Muhammad, CEO of Paris Place LLC, at the ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the moment she made history as the youngest member of the Conyers-Rockdale Chamber of Commerce in Georgia. Tenisha Odom hide caption
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Johnson & Johnson has been one of a number of companies, such as L'Oreal, Procter & Gamble and Unilever, that sell these kinds of products. Here, a store keeper in Mumbai, India, is shown taking stock of beauty and whitening products. Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Reporter Darius Rafieyan gets his makeup done at a Sephora store in New York City. A growing number of American men are dabbling in cosmetics. Nadia Lewis/NPR hide caption
Surface stains from things like coffee, tea, tobacco and red wine can be lightened with routine brushing, flossing and professional cleaning in the dental office. But deeper stains that come with age and damage to the tooth require bleaching agents or veneers. Katherine Streeter for NPR hide caption
Problems with hair care products are among the most common in the FDA's database. RuslanDashinsky/Getty Images hide caption
Scott Gottlieb, FDA deputy commissioner for policy, speaks to reporters at the Reuters Health summit in New York in 2005. Chip East/Reuters hide caption
Wen cleansing conditioners combine the functions of a shampoo and a conditioner. The FDA says it is investigating consumer complaints about the products. Jesse Grant/WireImage for Kari Feinstein PR/Getty Images hide caption
"Today society accepts the idea of improving one's image," says Dr. Ivo Pitanguy, Brazil's most famous plastic surgeon. Here a patient receives an injection of hyaluronic acid to plump up her lips at the Brazilian Society for Aesthetic Medicine in Rio de Janeiro in 2008. Antonio Scorza/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
No more tears, and no more quaternium-15 for Johnson's Baby Shampoo. Mike Clarke/AFP/Getty Images hide caption