Are You Living in a Healthy Wealthy Home?

Conversations From the Corner Office.
12-16-09
Posted by Rick Irrgang

Are your personal care products safe? As we come near the end of the year and start making plans for 2010, why not make plans to make you and your home a healthy wealthy home? Did you know that you can get paid to make the change? Let us show you how.
Please read todays post and see if you home is a healthy home.


Dangerous chemicals contaminate our polluted
world, yet we often turn a blind eye to the potential
dangers from chemicals in our everyday lives, even
though they can be avoided. This is especially true of the products in our bathrooms.
What is on the ingredients list?
You may be surprised.
Harmful or Carcinogenic Ingredients Commonly Found in Products
Diethanolamine (DEA) (shampoos, body washes, bubble bath, shaving cream)
Triethanolamine (TEA) (moisturizers, cosmetics, deodorant, toothpaste, body oils, washes)
Sodium Laureth Sulphate (SLES) (as above)
Propylene Glycol (moisturisers, shaving cream, deodorants, baby products)
Sodium Lauryl Sulphate (SLS) (shampoo, bubble bath, shaving foam, cleansers etc)
Sodium Fluoride (toothpaste)
Alcohol (mouthwash, toners, baby products)
Talc (baby powder, make-up, foot preparations)
Glycerine (moisturizers, lotions)
PABA (sunscreens)
PEG (cosmetics, make-up, shaving cream)
Artificial flavours (toothpaste, mouthwash)
Artificial colours (make-up, toothpaste, shampoos)
Ether (nail treatments, shampoo, conditioner)
Coal Tars (shampoo, conditioner, hair dyes, soap, skin care, cosmetics)
Aluminium (antiperspirants)
Acetone (nail polish remover)
Formaldehyde (antiperspirants, nail treatments, perfumes)
Fluorocarbons (hair spray)
Dioxins (shampoo)
Petrolatum or Mineral Oil (baby products, washes)
This list is not exhaustive and the above ingredients are found in many more products than just those
indicated.
Unique Cancer Risk from Cosmetics and Personal Care Products.

Dr Samuel Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, states that mainstream industry cosmetics
and personal care products (CPCPs) are the single most important, yet generally unrecognized, class of
avoidable carcinogenic exposures for the overwhelming majority of citizens in major industrial nations. The
reason for these unique risks reflects a complex of individual and interactive factors such as:
• Interaction between different ingredients: even though a specific ingredient might not be in itself a
“frank” carcinogen it might be a “hidden” carcinogen that may, under certain conditions, have
carcinogenic properties when it combines with other ingredients in a product.
• Prolonged duration of exposure: the concern is that daily exposure, over a lifetime, of toxic ingredients,
many of which are left on skin, has a cumulative negative effect.
• High permeability of skin: the skin is highly permeable to carcinogenic and other toxic ingredients,
especially following prolonged exposure.
• Effect of wetting agents on skin permeability: the permeability of skin to carcinogens, besides other
toxic ingredients, is further increased by the presence of wetting agents or surfactants, probably the
most common class of ingredients in the majority of CPCPs.
• Bypassing detoxifying enzyme: carcinogens in CPCPs pose greater cancer risks than does food
contaminated with carcinogenic pesticides and other industrial carcinogens as they are not detoxified
by the liver but reach the general blood circulation without this protective detoxification.

Frank & Hidden Carcinogens
Acrylate
acid orange 3
Acrylate copolymers
amorphous silicates
Benzyl acetate
blue 1,2,4
bromonitrodioxane
bronopol
bronopol (2-bromo-2-nitropropane-1,3-diol)
butyl benzylphthalate
Butylated hydroxyanisole
butylated hydroxytoluene
Ceteareth-3
chlorhexidine
Choleth-24
chrystalline silica
coal tar dyes
DEA
DEA-Cocamide & Lauramide & Oleamide condensates
DEA-cocamide/lauramide condensates
DEA-MEA/ Acetame
DEA-Sodium lauryl sulfate
diaminoanisole
diaminophenol
diaminotoluene
diazolidinyl urea
Diethanolamide-cocamide, lauramide & oleamide
condensates
dioctyl adipate
disperse blue1
disperse yellow3
DMDM-Hydantoin
ethoxylated alcohols
ethyl alcohol
fluoride
formaldehyde
glutaral
green 1,2,3
hydroquinone
Imidazolidinyl urea
lanolin
Laureth's
Methacrylate copolymers
metheneamine
Metheneamine
methylene chloride
Morpholine
nitrophenylenediamine
Nonoxynol
Oleth's
Padimate-O (octyldimethyl para-amino benzoic acid)
PEG's (polyethylene glycols)
polyoxymethyleneurea
Polysorbate 60
Polysorbate 80
polyvinyl acetate
polyvinyl pyrrolidone
p-phenylphenylenediamine
pyrocatechol
Pyroglutamic Acid
Quaternium-15
quaternium-26
red 4,9,17,19,22,33,40
saccharin
Sodium/Hydroxymethylglycinate
talc
TEA
TEA-Sodium lauryl sulfate
titanium dioxide
Yellow 5,6,8

Wow, are you interested in learning more? It was this list that we read that started our commitment to sharing Our safe and effective products with the world.