Harmful To Your Health - Why You Need To Throw Away Your Shampoo!

Do you still think that when you massage your shampoo onto your head and you create foamy, lathery suds that you are cleaning and nourishing your hair? You need to know how bad and unhealthy this actually is for you, even dangerous.

Most shampoos are made using sulfates. Sulfates are chemicals that are cheap to produce, are easy to get, and they are very good at dissolving oil and dirt. Sulfates are what create the foamy suds on your head that we incorrectly interpret to mean clean. When studies were conducted testing the most commonly used sulfate and sodium laryl sulfate (SLS) - a main ingredient in most shampoos on animals, the studies showed brain and nervous system effects in even moderate doses. The studies also discovered that sulfate sodium laryls SLS disrupts our hormones, damages our reproductive system and increases our risk of cancer.

Ever get shampoo in your eyes? It doesn't feel so good. This is because the SLS irritates them. Get some in your mouth? It also irritates your lungs. Whatever we put on our bodies get's absorbed into our bodies in 20 seconds! So every time you wash your hair with drugstore or salon shampoo, the sulfur is getting inside your central nervous system and to you organs. And whatever isn't absorbed into your body through your skin then gets washed down the drain and into our rivers and lakes, which causes damage to our aquatic life.

Sodium laryl sulphate is considered a probable human carcinogen by the US Environment Agency. "This product (shampoos with SLS) contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer, birth defects and/or other reproductive harm." And don't be fooled by grocery store "natural" "organic" brand shampoos, such as, Avalon, Abla, Jason, Givvanni, Ecco, Bella Nature's Gate, and Kiss My Faee as of 2009 they reformatted their products so that the levels of carcinogens are not detectable, but they still contain way too many questionable synthetics such as cocumide

Here are some shampooing tips:

When you are looking for a shampoo that isn't going to give you cancer or leech chemicals into your body. Look for shampoos (body washes and bars of soaps) without the letters ETHS or PEGS (polyethylene glycol) and these other bad boys (found in 80% of over 12,000 products surveyed by the David Suzuki Foundation) BHA and BHT DEA, Formaldehyde, Oxbenzone, Palm Oil, Parabens, Perfume/Fragrance, Mineral Oil, PDD, Phthalates, Retinyl palmitale, siloxanes, Sodium laureth sulphate and Triclosan/triclocaran.

Don't' fall for fluff words like "natural" and "organic". I noticed the other day that some "natural" shampoo brands are now advertising that they are free of Sodium Chloride. Ooo, impressive they have removed table salt! Instead of doing the hard job, the right thing, and removing the dangerous chemicals. They are removing salt so they can say "Free" of SOMETHING!

Many people say that when they switch to "natural" products their hair isn't as manageable. This is where Botanical shampoos are the answer baby!

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Take the interactive survey and see how your home shapes up.  There are many hidden toxins and chemicals in our life we may not be aware of.   There is a healthy alternative to use and I am so glad I found this out many years ago and our house is a Neways Healthy Home.

Toxic chemicals in personal care products causing 'epidemic' of skin allergies

(NaturalNews) Be careful which facial creams, shampoos, moisturizing soaps and other personal care products you buy and use, as many of them apparently contain a chemical linked to causing what some experts have now dubbed an "epidemic" of skin allergies and other dermal issues. A new report compiled by dermatologists reveals how the preservative chemical methylisothiazolinone, or MI for short, has led to a massive increase in eczema and other skin allergies in recent years, and calls on regulators to ban the chemical.

Long used in many conventional care products as a deterrent for bacteria and other harmful pathogens, and as an alternative to toxic parabens, MI is generally recognized by regulatory authorities in both the U.S. and Europe as safe and non-toxic. But its practical use in the real world tells a much different story, with many people reporting severe allergic and other negative reactions when exposed to it. The situation has gotten so out of control, according to reports, that some dermatologists are now calling for an immediate moratorium.

"We are in the midst of an outbreak of allergy to a preservative which we have not seen before in terms of scale in our lifetime," says Dr. John McFadden, a consultant dermatologist at St. John's Institute of Dermatology in London, as quoted by the Telegraph. "Many of our patients have suffered acute dermatitis with redness and swelling of the face. I would ask the cosmetics industry not to wait for legislation but to get on and address the problem before the situation gets worse."

Levels of MI in personal care products have increased over the years

In years past, MI was mixed with other preservatives, so its concentration was relatively low. But as these other chemicals were phased out due to their own tendencies to cause skin allergies, MI stuck around as an isolated chemical. According to the Telegraph, concentrations of MI in personal care products today are as high as 100 parts per million (ppm), up 2,500 percent from around 4 ppm in previous formulations.

"This new epidemic of allergic contact dermatitis from isothiazolinones is causing harm to European citizens," wrote Margarida Goncalo, President of the European Society of Contact Dermatitis (ESCD), in a recent letter to the European Commission. "Urgent action is required."

According to the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a consumer watchdog organization, MI is moderately hazardous, having been linked to various allergies and immune disorders. Studies identified by the group also link MI to brain cell damage, and the chemical has been implicated in causing nerve damage in humans.

Avoid products that contain MI by consulting the GoodGuide

Some companies have already begun to quietly and voluntarily phase out the use of MI in their products, but many other brands such as Nivea, Wet Ones, and Dove still use it, according to reports. Even some popular "natural" brands like Seventh Generation and Burt's Bees use MI in their product formulations.

You can view a complete list of known products that contain MI by visiting GoodGuide.com:
http://www.goodguide.com

"[A] brief exposure to methylisothiazolinone, a widely used industrial and household biocide, is highly toxic to cultured neurons," explains a 2002 study out of the University of Pittsburgh that was published in the Journal of Neuroscience. "Because of their widespread use, the neurotoxic consequences of both acute and chronic human exposure to these toxins need to be evaluated."

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