The change we MUST make to protect our family's long term health
"In an age of burgeoning childhood cancers and leukaemia it seems only common sense (if not a moral imperative) for parents to reduce the toxic burden their kids are exposed to.
Many people are not aware that the vast majority of products we happily use every day in the bathroom – such as shower and bath soaps (especially liquid ones), shampoos, conditioners, toothpaste, etc., etc., (and the other 'grown up' stuff such as aftershave and cosmetics) contain a cocktail of synthetic chemicals many of which are known to cause a variety of health problems - or pose potentially serious health risks.
How can this be? Well the laws relating to personal care products and cosmetics have never required rigorous testing of the long-term effects of their ingredients. Back when the ‘rules’ were laid down - the powers-that-be still laboured under the impression that 'you rub something on your skin - you wash it off’...therefore there was no real problem.
They did not consider that laws were necessary to regulate these products like they did for foods and medicines. Whilst the things you eat, or 'medicate yourselves with' obviously ‘gets inside’ you - it was not apparent that cosmetics, body, hair and skin care could be a problem because they are ‘on the outside’!
Now, though, it is widely acknowledged that your skin is absorbs up to 60% of the 'stuff' you put on it. The skin is, after all, a living breathing membrane, described by some as the 'largest organ' of your body. It is also known that many of literally thousands of chemicals that have been passed as ‘safe’ to use in personal care products can, in fact, cause problems ranging from simple irritations, to triggering allergies, causing or exacerbating sensitivities and either directly, or indirectly (due to contamination) playing a causative role in the onset of cancers...."
FUL ARTICLE AT: http://www.gonando.com
"In an age of burgeoning childhood cancers and leukaemia it seems only common sense (if not a moral imperative) for parents to reduce the toxic burden their kids are exposed to.
Many people are not aware that the vast majority of products we happily use every day in the bathroom – such as shower and bath soaps (especially liquid ones), shampoos, conditioners, toothpaste, etc., etc., (and the other 'grown up' stuff such as aftershave and cosmetics) contain a cocktail of synthetic chemicals many of which are known to cause a variety of health problems - or pose potentially serious health risks.
How can this be? Well the laws relating to personal care products and cosmetics have never required rigorous testing of the long-term effects of their ingredients. Back when the ‘rules’ were laid down - the powers-that-be still laboured under the impression that 'you rub something on your skin - you wash it off’...therefore there was no real problem.
They did not consider that laws were necessary to regulate these products like they did for foods and medicines. Whilst the things you eat, or 'medicate yourselves with' obviously ‘gets inside’ you - it was not apparent that cosmetics, body, hair and skin care could be a problem because they are ‘on the outside’!
Now, though, it is widely acknowledged that your skin is absorbs up to 60% of the 'stuff' you put on it. The skin is, after all, a living breathing membrane, described by some as the 'largest organ' of your body. It is also known that many of literally thousands of chemicals that have been passed as ‘safe’ to use in personal care products can, in fact, cause problems ranging from simple irritations, to triggering allergies, causing or exacerbating sensitivities and either directly, or indirectly (due to contamination) playing a causative role in the onset of cancers...."
FUL ARTICLE AT: http://www.gonando.com
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