Tuesday November 08, 2005

How toxic is your bathroom?

libertyforum.org -> ewg.org :

Be warned: your daily beauty regime could be taking years off your life. Earlier this year, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an unprecedented warning to the cosmetics industry that it was time to inform consumers that most personal care products have not been safety tested. What concerns scientists is the "cocktail effect" - the daily mixing of many different types of toxins in and on the body - and how this might damage health over the longer term.

On average, we each use nine personal care products a day containing 126 different ingredients. Absorbed into the body, they can be stored in fatty tissue or organs such as the liver, kidney, reproductive organs and brain. Medical research is proving that fragrances can trigger asthma; that the detergents in shampoos can damage eye tissue; and that hair-dye chemicals can cause bladder cancer and lymphoma.

If these problems had been linked to pharmaceutical drugs, the products would have been taken off the market. At the very least, money would have been spent on safety studies. But because the cosmetics industry is largely self-governing, and because we all want to believe in the often hollow promises of better skin and whiter teeth, products containing potentially harmful substances remain in use and on sale.

- This is a landmark study - pay heed! Time to review those toiletries. The last time the same group released a similar report about a couple of years back, it was regarding Teflon, which have prompted us to get rid of all our Teflon-coated cooking utensils - pots, pans, trays - everything, replacing them with stainless-steel and glass equivalents, and advising others to do the same. See links below.

See also :

1. Canaries in the Kitchen
2. Non-stick pot makes u sick (M4M thread)

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