Archive for July 26th, 2011
While awareness is growing about the many toxic chemicals that exist outside the home, an equally dangerous menace exists within the home. Many products that we invite into our homes and use on a daily basis have hidden ingredients that pose another dangerous threat to our children’s health as well as our own. The very commercial products that we spray, splash, wash with, rub on, and get pretty with harbor a more sinister side. Men in white lab coats whip up chemical concoctions that are designed to be used either in the home or on our body. While we naively accept advertising enticements, most people are unaware that personal care products are part of an unregulated industry, which incorporates known carcinogenic and hormone-disrupting chemicals.
Journalist Joel Beliefs of the Chicago Tribune wrote the following expose called “Take a Powder” providing an inside peek in the hidden world of personal care products.
Do you use toothpaste, shampoo, sunscreen, body lotion, body talc, makeup, or hair dye? These are among the personal care products the American consumer has been led to believe are safe but that are often contaminated with carcinogenic byproducts, or that contain substances that regularly react to form potent carcinogens during storage and use.
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