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Hey everyone.  I want to share this with you.  It is two articles from the Vancouver Province.   Leave me some comments and tell me what you think about this.

Shampoos need to come clean on their ingredients!  Shampoos are generally composed of a mixture of about 50% sodium lauryl sulfate, some sodium
stearate and about 40% water, Most liquid type shampoos may contain the
following tongue twisting names for detergents – Triethanolamine
dodecylbenzene sulfonate, Ethanolamide of lauric acid, along with perfumes, dyes,
a host of other multisyllable names to create the desired consistency and performance.  Shampoos are among the most frequently cited in complaints to the
FDA. Reports include eye irritation, scalp irritation, tangled hair, swelling of hands, face and arms, and split and fuzzy hair. (A Consumer’s Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients, Ruth Winters, MS. Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1994)

What else is in your shampoo?
One of the big culprits in shampoo seems to be the Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS). SLS is a surfactant, or wetting agent which means its purpose in the formula is to lower the surface tension in water thus allowing the shampoo to spread out and penetrate
more easily.  According to one study, to determine the effect of SLS in the eye, it was found that SLS is rapidly taken up and accumulated by eye tissues and retained for up to five days. SLS uptake is greater in younger eyes decreasing with increasing age. It was also found to cause changes in some proteins of eye tissues and can extend the healing time in injured eyes.  Another study as cited by the Wall Street Journal, 11, 1, 88 linked SLS to cataracts and Nitrate absorption.  The nitrate absorption occurs when the SLS becomes contaminated with NDELA (N-nitrosodiethanolamine) during processing. This contamination comes about as a result of SLS coming into contact with any number of chemicals including Triethanolamine (TEA), which as you will recall is a commonly used ingredient in shampoos as a detergent, Put simply: SLS + TEA= NDELA (a nitrosamine and a recognized carcinogem. It doesn’t stop there.  In September of 1992 John Bailey, director of FDA’s Division of Colours and Cosmetics, while  dressing the Dermal Clinical Evaluation Society reported the discovery of another  reactant chemical contaminant that seemed to be showing up in cosmetics specifically in shampoos and bubble baths. Excessively high levels of 1, 4 dioxane, a substance
found to cause liver cancer in lab animal studies conducted by the National Cancer Institute in the 1970’s, seem to be occurring in products that use non-ionic ethoxylated surfactants in emulsion products such as conditioners.  It was also noted that shampoos for children use higher levels of ethylene oxide to decrease the
irritancy factor. In fact the higher degree of ethoxylation the more likely the occurrence of 1,4 dioxane.  1,4 dioxane has been determined to be an animal carcinogen and may
be a human health risk. Most common human exposure to this compound occurs in shampoos formulated with sodium or ammonium laureth sulfates or other ethoxylated surfactants.  (DC) November 1992)

I recall a chemist at a convention saying that they learn in their first year of chemistry that SLS denatures protein. I can only wonder at this since SLS is used so widely in our skin and hair products. Did they also teach first year chemists that skin and
hair is made up of protein?  And last, but far from being least, SLS is a mutagen! This means that it is capable of actually changing the information in genetic material found
in cells.

On that note:

Shampoo Linked to Sperm

Canadian Press

OTTAWA – Researchers are pointing to shampoo as a possible factor in the apparent decline of sperm quality in many countries.  The theory is getting international attention and even sceptics agree it should be investigated.  Scandinavian researchers say 
chemicals known as alkyl-phenol ethoxylades, used in shampoos and other products, can act like the female sex-hormone estrogen. 

Boys exposed to such chemicals before puberty could suffer disruption of their hormonal processes, said Jorma  Toppari of the University of Turku in Finland.  “‘We know that these compounds are hormonally active, and we know that you can influence sperm counts by exposing a child or fetus to hormones that act like these compounds,” he told a conference on Great Lakes water quality in Duluth, Minn.

Studies show sperm counts in several countries have declined suspicion over alkyl-phenol ethoxylades is new. 
Reported in the Vancouver Province
September 28, 1995

Wow.  Is that not something horrendous!!!  I was aware of SLS and toxins in personal care products.  I wanted to share the message with you.  There is something you can do about it!!  Check out a website of mine and contact me if you have any questions.

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