Did you lather up with a carcinogen today? Dab a little endocrine disruptor under your arm? Those are the things you might find yourself thinking about when you watch Annie Leonard’s new video, The Story of Cosmetics, The Ugly Truth of Toxins In, Toxins Out. Leonard, the creator of The Story of Stuff, is using her latest in a series of illustrated videos to take aim at the unregulated personal care products industry.
Many of the products we slather on our bodies come with labels touting “Gentle,” “Natural,” “Made With No Harsh Ingredients,” Leonard says. “But when you turn the bottles around, get out a magnifying glass and read the fine print on the back (and get online to do some research) it's a different story: sodium laureth sulfate, diazolidinyl urea, ceteareth-20, PEGs, quaternium-15—all these are typically contaminated with cancer-causing chemicals like formaldehyde or 1,4 dioxane…Carcinogens in baby shampoo? Are you kidding me?”
The problem, Leonard points out, is none of the stuff we put on our bodies is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. But that could change. The newly introduced Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010, by Representatives Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) sets out to discontinue the most menacing chemicals, require companies to be transparent about the ingredients they pour into bottles, create a system to test the safety of cosmetic ingredients, and provide resources for the FDA to monitor the industry. You can add your support for reform here. Also go to safecosmetics.org for help finding products that are less toxic.
The sad reality of our current lack of regulation of personal care products is that those most effected (children and wildlife) have no voice. Children and unborn babies are most vulnerable to harmful chemicals in personal care products. Their developing bodies can't process and remove toxins the way adult bodies do, and they have a much higher skin surface ratio for their size. The also have an underdeveloped brain barrier.
Secondly, what isn't absorbed into our bodies is washed down the drain and into our city water purification centers, which are currently not designed to remove these toxins. That means that many of these chemicals that are carcinogens, neurotoxins and hormone disruptors end up harming the fish and wildlife.
Please contact your representatives and ask for their support for the Safe Chemicals Act of 2010, because you have a voice. For personal care products that are certified organic, developed with green chemistry and 100% wind power go to http://www.mibetterchoices.com
There are a lot of people making natural skin care products that are opposed to this bill. Consider that parsley contains Vitamin K; Vitamin K has been shown to cause cancer when injected into rats; therefore parsley could not be used in cosmetics if this bill passes!
Read more here: http://sagescript.blogspot.com/2010/07/do-you-put-chemicals-on-your-face...
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The most effected have no voice
The sad reality of our current lack of regulation of personal care products is that those most effected (children and wildlife) have no voice. Children and unborn babies are most vulnerable to harmful chemicals in personal care products. Their developing bodies can't process and remove toxins the way adult bodies do, and they have a much higher skin surface ratio for their size. The also have an underdeveloped brain barrier.
Secondly, what isn't absorbed into our bodies is washed down the drain and into our city water purification centers, which are currently not designed to remove these toxins. That means that many of these chemicals that are carcinogens, neurotoxins and hormone disruptors end up harming the fish and wildlife.
Please contact your representatives and ask for their support for the Safe Chemicals Act of 2010, because you have a voice. For personal care products that are certified organic, developed with green chemistry and 100% wind power go to http://www.mibetterchoices.com
Don't support this bill!
There are a lot of people making natural skin care products that are opposed to this bill. Consider that parsley contains Vitamin K; Vitamin K has been shown to cause cancer when injected into rats; therefore parsley could not be used in cosmetics if this bill passes!
Read more here:
http://sagescript.blogspot.com/2010/07/do-you-put-chemicals-on-your-face...
İlaçların sık
İlaçların sık kullanımı ve bünyeye yaptığı alışkanlık ile hastalıkları’nın ve ağrılarının sürekli devam etmesinden şikayet ediyorsanız. Hayatınızdaki performansınızın düştüğüne inanıyorsanız o zaman sağlığınız ve gücünüzü geri yerine getirmek için doğal bitkisel karışımların oluşturduğu kapsülleri düzenli olarak kullanarak sağlığınıza yeniden kavuşabilirsiniz. Bitkisel ürünlerle sağlığınıza yeniden kavuşmak bu kadar zor değil...
Frequent use of drugs and the constitution with his habit of constant persistence of disease and pain you are complaining. If you believe that your performance has fallen back in your life when your health and strength to fulfill the mixtures of natural herbal capsules on a regular basis can have your health back Bitki Again this is not so difficult to reach your health...