1. The rates of cancer are constantly increasing.
2. My personal hypothesis is that the ever increasing variety of chemicals that we are exposed to each day is the cause.
3. I recommend that you look at the label of some of your favorite shampoos, conditioners, skin care products, make up and perfume and then look up what some of these ingredients are and their potential health effects.
4. Consider just a few of the following ingredients that were listed on a baby shampoo!!
(a) Cocamidopropyl Betaine – This material is used as an antistatic agent, hair and skin conditioner, as a surfactant and to thicken products. The National Library of Medicine HazMap considers it as toxic to the immune system and can cause an allergic reaction to the skin and/or lungs.
(b) PEG-80 Sorbitan Laurate – This material is a fragrance ingredient and a cleansing agent which the Cosmetic Ingredient Review assesses as NOT SAFE for injured or damaged skin. My kids have often had scrapes, cuts and minor rashes and I though that a “baby shampoo” would be safe. This materials is linked to developmental/reproductive toxicity, allergies/immunotoxicity, and organ system toxicity. This is a very scary ingredient.
(c) PEG-150 Distearate is a cleansing agent which the Cosmetic Ingredient Review assesses as NOT SAFE for injured or damaged skin. My kids have often had scrapes, cuts and minor rashes and I though that a “baby shampoo” would be safe. This materials is linked to organ system toxicity. This is a moderately scary ingredient.
(d) Sodium Trideceth Sulfate is a cleansing agent; surfactant; emulsifying agent; foaming additive where there is no safety data available that I could find!!!
(e) Fragrance – THIS IS THE SCARIEST POSSIBLE LABEL ON THE BOTTLE BECAUSE IT COULD BE ALMOST ANYTHING!!! This is not an ingredient – it is a “catch all” for many potentially hazardous chemicals. This is a VERY scary label on any product.
(f) Polyquaternium-10 is an antistatic agent; film former; hair fixative for which a few articles were found on PubMed. There is limited safety data available.
(g) Tetrasodium EDTA is a chelating agent which has a low risk by itself but it may allow other chemicals to be better absorbed by the skin which can make hazardous ingredients more hazardous because they can pass into the body more easily.
(h) Quaternium-15 is an antistatic agent which is linked to a risk for cancer; developmental and reproductive harm, allergies, immunotoxicity; and organ system toxicity. This is a moderately scary ingredient.
5. If you want to know more subscribe to a Healthy Choice Products newsletter and read some of our other blogs and upcoming blogs:
- Over 14,000 health products contain at least 1 carcinogen
- Body Wash dries skin and expensive moisturizer is the antidote!
- You are what you “wash with”
