From the category archives:

Personal Care

Phthalates

Industrial Uses:  Household cleaners, deodorizers, baby toys, garden hoses, shower curtains, insect repellants, food packaging, clothes, gum and candy
Personal Care Products:  Especially nail polish, perfumes, hair sprays, and skin lotions, as well as, toothbrushes, aspirin, medical tubing and fluid bags, biodegradable tampon injectors, and prescription medications.
In the recent CDC study, (”National Report on Human Exposure [...]

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Propolene Glycol (PG)

Industrial Uses:  Antifreeze, brake fluid and airplane de-icers

Personal Care Products:  Widely used moisture-carrying ingredient in cosmetics and cleansers.  It is also found in medications.
Purpose:  Delivery vehicle and solvent for cosmetics and medications
When you purchase a drum of propylene glycol from a supplier, that supplier is required to furnish an MSDS (Material Safety Data [...]

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Sodium Laurel Sulfate or Sodium Dodecyl (SLS, SLSF)

Industrial Uses:  Harsh Floor Cleaners, Engine Degreasers, Car Wash Detergents, Laundry Detergents
Personal Care Products:  Toothpaste, Shampoos, Body Gels, Bubble Baths, Facial Cleansers, Baby Wipes, Baby Shampoos, Bubble Baths, Liquid Hand Soaps and Body Gels, Sunblock, Cosmetic Products
Purpose:  Inexpensive, Makes Foam, Thickens with Salt, found in 90% of commercial shampoos even many so called “natural products”.  [...]

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Talc

Industrial Uses:
Personal Care Products:  Baby Powders, Body Powders, Feminine Hygiene Products, Cosmetics, Condom Lubricant
Purpose:  Dry Lubricant
Talc’s harmful effect on human tissues has been known for quite some time.  Long ago, its dry lubricating properties were used as a glove-donning powder (easy to slide on) for surgical gloves.  As early as the 1930’s talc was linked [...]

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Toxic Toothpaste and Flouride

With the volumes of scientific information regarding the toxic, carcinogenic, and other harmful effects of sodium lauryl sulfate presented (we have listed only a fraction here), it should be clear that this chemical does not belong on the skin.  Unfortunately, SLS is as common as it is dangerous. A review of commercial toothpastes revealed only [...]

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Triclosan

Industrial Uses:  detergents, dish soaps, laundry soaps
Personal Care Products: deodorants, cosmetics, lotions, creams, toothpastes and mouthwashes

Purpose:  antibacterial agent
The latest rage in the arsenal of antibacterial chemicals, triclosan is included in  a wide variety of household and personal care products, but, is triclosan safe?
The EPA registers it as a pesticide (“Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products [...]

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