Warning: Toxic Chemicals In Cosmetics.
Toxic Chemicals in Baby Products.
One cause of cancer in humans is environmental toxins. These exist in many popular pesticides, herbicides, and common household insecticide. If we have any sense of self preservation, both for ourselves, our families and the environment, then we do our best to avoid these contaminants as best we can. We select organic vegetables, fruit, eggs and meats where possible and have the idea that we are protecting ourselves against cancer and other disease. Well, we are probably doing better than most.
However, toxic chemicals are still used in most cosmetics and in many other household products where we would least expect to find them. There is no regulatory health board which monitors the use of toxic chemicals in cosmetics. There is a list of carcenogenic chemicals which the World Health Authority have named, but the FDA in America makes no effort to ensure that cosmetics are tested for safety before they go out for sale.
Chemicals In Baby Products: Baby products and health ‘care’ products are an example of products which contain hidden toxic chemicals. Just think – that talcum powder you rub all over your wee baby and on your own skin more than likely has carcenogenic chemicals in it which are absorbed straight into the skin where they are retained in the body.. Sometimes we are told what chemicals are in a product, sometimes we are not. If we are, then the fine print is hard to read for most people – they go on using these products unsuspecting of the potential harmful ingredients they contain.
Here is one example: Only two months ago, I was given two expensive talcum powders as a birthday present. I did not read the fine print at first, as I half assumed that talc – any talc – was simply old-fashioned talc with just some added fragrance. I also wanted to try the talc out. Well, this is an experiment that I won’t be repeating. My health declined,quite rapidly with using the talc as a deodorant over about six weeks. I also developed an intolerance for the plastic in my dentures. There were other reasons why the denture plastic was perceptibly breaking down, but the carenogenic substances in the talc would not have helped matters.Denture plastic contains some of the very chemicals which these talcs contain.
After reading the list of chemicals, I know that the chronic headaches and nausea which I was experiencing were directly attributable to some of these ingredients. I have had the same symptoms from using skin care products which contain several of these toxic chemicals. Now that I have thrown out these talcum powders, and also gotten rid of the plastic dentures in my head for the last time, I am recovering again.
Toxins In Talcum Powder: Here is a list of the full complement of hazardous chemicals in these two talcum powders.
Dreams and Desires – This is made by Innoxa
The product states that the talcum powder is “Hypo-allergenic”. This is incredibly misleading. How can a product which has known carcenogens in it, plus a whole lot of other unknown chemicals, be ‘hyperallergenic’?
Ingredients – talc, Zea Mays (corn) starch, parfum (fragrance) Hexyl cinnamal, Butyl phenyl methylproponal, Benzyl salicylate, Linalool alpha-isomethyl, Ionone, C. ‘ronellol, Hydroxyioshexyl 3- Cyclohexene carboxaldehyde, Limonene, Methylparaben, Butylparaben, Ethylparaben, Propylparaben, Isobutylparabenh.
Manufactured by innoxa pty ltd, Brookvale, NSW australia 2100
Tabac Original – Korperpuder – Body talc – talc pour le corps
Maurer+Wirtz
Stolberg/RHLD
Made in Germany
Ingredients: Talc Fragrance parfum,, Zinc oxide, Magnesium stearate, Hydroxycitronella, Phenoxyethanol, Citronella, Coumarin alpha-isomethyl, Paraben benzyl salicylate, isoeugenol, Butylphenyl, ethylproponal, Amylcinnamal, Benzyl benzoate, Geranol, Propylene glycol, Butylparaben, Ethylparaben hydroxyisohexyl, 3-cytohexene, carboxaldehyde, Isobutyl-paraben, Propylparaben, Eugenol, BHT ascorbyl, Palmitate, Glyceryl, Stearate, Citric acid.
Read The Label.
Parabens:
Both these talcum powders are loaded with parabens: Parabens are endocrine disrupting chemicls. Alkyl Parahydroxy Benzoates. Parabens are an extremely carcinogenic substance. Parabens are shamefully still being used in most cosmetics today despite parabens being a proven carcenogen.: Toothpaste,shampoos, face creams,moisturizers, talcum powder and deodorants are all products which are likely to contain parabens.. They are also bioaccumulative, which means that they accumulate in your body cells.
Common Carcinogens
Alkylphenol ethoxylates (APEs) EDC/B/P. APEs are chemicals which give fluids the capacity to foam and penetrate solids These carcenogenic compounds have the ability to be absorbed readily into the skin and into the cells of the body, which makes them important to avoid fo your health’s sake. Textile and paper manufacturing processes often use alkylphenol ethoxylates. These carcinogenic compounds are also found in disposable nappies and sanitary pads, which means that your baby will be absorbing these chemicals through the skin if you use disposable nappies. Women who use sanitary pads or tampons will also be at risk of absorbing these chemicals. Alkylphenol ethoxylates are also found as foaming agents in household paints, detergents, pesticides and herbicides, plastics, insulating foams, and many cosmetics. The talcum powders above both contain this chemical. Shampoos, liquid soft soaps, skin cleansers, hair-dyes, shaving gels, spermicides and toothpaste may contain carcinogenic alkylphenol ethoxylates.