Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts |  The European Union has been moving aggressively to remove phthalates from nail polish. Phthalates are often used in nail polish so that it doesn't chip as readily. In the United States, where regulators wait for proof before taking action, a few major cosmetic makers are electing to eliminate phthalates from nail polish since they have had to reformulate their products for the overseas market. | | To date, Procter & Gamble, Estee Lauder, and several others have eliminated phthalates from their nail polish. (Ingredient labels on nail polish sold in retail stores must now state whether it contains phthalate as an ingredient, although salon nail polish does not have to.)
WASH YOUR HANDS! A recent study found that people infected with rhi-novirus, the cause of half of all colds, contaminate many of the objects they touch, leaving an infectious path for those who follow them. |
Mark Schapiro
See book keywords and concepts |  He cited one example: that of dibutyl phthalate (DBP), a plastic additive in the company's Cover Girl nail polish that the European Commission put on the negative list as a potential carcinogen. In 2006, the company removed the substance from its nail polishes in Europe but not in the United States. Just as it reconfigured the strength of detergent to satisfy different consumer desires, cosmetic products were being formulated differently to meet the needs, said Long, "of different national regulations. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts | | Phthalates are often used in nail polish so that it doesn't chip as readily. In the United States, where regulators wait for proof before taking action, a few major cosmetic makers are electing to eliminate phthalates from nail polish since they have had to reformulate their products for the overseas market. Some companies are also producing polish that is free of two chemicals that are equally troubling to environmental public health groups: formaldehyde, a preservative, and toluene, a solvent that helps polish to flow more evenly. | | Ingredient labels on nail polish sold in retail stores must now state whether it contains phthalate as an ingredient, although salon nail polish does not have to.)
WASH YOUR HANDS! A recent study found that people infected with rhi-novirus, the cause of half of all colds, contaminate many of the objects they touch, leaving an infectious path for those who follow them. The study, conducted in hotel rooms, showed that an adult with a cold who stayed one night in a hotel room left behind residual virus on everything from television remote controls and telephones to light switches and faucets. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  The Dtug Enforcement Administration restricts sale of the solvent for drug manufacture or ingestion, but this does not ban its use for "valid" commercial purposes, one of which is as a key component of "acetone-free" nail polish removers. Additional chemical additives may or may not detet tecteational use of the acetone-free products, but childhood ingestions of nail polish remover have led to more than one case of coma from GHB.67 old hazards remain
Amid all these new threats, old hazards remain as well. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Pink ribbons are also found on cancer-promoting nail polish and cosmetics containing parabens and other chemicals. Pink ribbon SlimSmokes will be sold at selected retailers, including Bad Breath and Beyond, a popular retailer of toxic home care products for consumers.
Shareholders of a top chemotherapy drug producer, ConPfuzer, hailed the new product as a "milestone success for its shareholders and stakeholders," claiming the new cigarettes would simultaneously appeal to women while greatly increasing the demand for chemotherapy treatments of breast cancer tumors.
The Susie B. |
Michael Friedman, ND
See book keywords and concepts |  Don't use makeup, hair sprays & coloring products or nail polish.
Especially when pregnant! Enjoy your own body and not the image that the media says you should want.
Avoid using strong chemicals, glues, paints, nail polish and remover, floor & carpet cleaners. Get rid of all those name brands and use earth friendly products sparingly. If you must use chemicals, then wear industrial quality, gloves, eye protection and a mask with filters approved for each chemical being used. Once again ... Definitely NOT when your pregnant! |
Marshall Editions
See book keywords and concepts |  Bad breath can also be an indication of some more serious health conditions such as diabetes, where the breath smells like acetone (i.e., nail polish remover), and liver or kidney failure, where the breath smells like fish or ammonia.
SYMPTOMS
TREATMENT GOAL
• A sour taste in the mouth
• Foul-smelling breath
Bad breath on its own is normally not generally a reason to see the doctor. For persistent cases, make an appointment with your dentist. Treatment is directed towards identifying and then, when possible, removing the cause of bad breath. | | SYMPTOMS
TREATMENT GOAL
• Frequent urination
• Excessive thirst
• Extreme tiredness
• Weight loss
• Smell of nail polish (acetone) on the breath
• Thrush
• Blurred vision
The main aim of treatment of both types of diabetes is to maintain blood glucose, blood pressure, and cholesterol levels as near to normal as possible. This, together with a healthy lifestyle, will help to improve wellbeing and protect against long-term damage to the body's major organs. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | The parents did telephone a poison control center, but in the call the product was misidentified as a far less toxic acetone nail polish remover. The parents were reassured, and the child was put to bed. He was found dead in his crib the next morning. Autopsy testing verified lethal cyanide levels.
Other reports soon followed of additional cases of profound toxicity after ingestion of even tiny amounts of the nail remover by small children. Poison control centers, having been alerted to the danger, acted quickly to recommend antidote therapy, and the exposed children survived. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
See book keywords and concepts |  Or they may just be the telltale cosmetic clue of having used dark-colored nail polish, which can leave a yellow stain behind. But yellow nails can also signal something more serious.
Much like yellow eyes and skin (see Chapter 2 and Yellowish Skin, below), yellow nails can point to jaundice. They can also be a sign of AIDS. And yellow nails with a slight bluish base can signal diabetes.
But sometimes yellow nails—especially if they grow slowly, are very thick and curved, lose their cuticles, and even fall off—may signal a rare condition aptly named yellow nail syndrome. | | Sweet or fruity breath, or breath that has a sweet chemical or acetone (like nail polish remover) smell, can be a serious warning sign that you have diabetes and that your blood sugar is dangerously out of control. Medically known as diabetic acidosis or diabetic ketoacidosis, this is a medical emergency. If your blood sugar isn't promptly regulated, coma and death may follow.
Bad breath was considered a serious disorder in the Talmud, the ancient Jewish scripture. Holy men with halitosis were forbidden to carry out holy rites. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  We can identify chemicals in cosmetics, nail polish, plastics, household cleaners, dry cleaning, and foods. A survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (the National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals) is currently underway, which monitors 145 chemicals in 2,500 people in the United States. |
Stacy Malkan
See book keywords and concepts |  There's no shortage of possibilities for green cosmetic chemistry innovation, in chemist Amy Cannon's view. nail polish, for instance: pigments, solvents, dispersants, stabilizers, plasticizers and resins all present opportunities for reform. Could resin be made inherently sticky, thereby eliminating the need for plasticizers? Maybe we could check in with the peacocks; they've already figured out how to create brilliant colors by refracting light through a matrix of keratin, the same substance human fingernails are made of. "Why are we still talking about chemicals and paint? | | In the year since her last undercover visit to this major industry conference, the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics had celebrated some key victories — top manufacturers had removed one of the worst ingredients from nail polish and the California legislature had passed a precedent-setting law. But these were small steps in the scheme of things. The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics decided to make that point with another full-page ad in USA Today. "Don't worry, I'm 11% tested," said the headline over a man who gazed pleadingly at a skeptical-looking woman. "Don't trust these odds? | | But Jane Houlihan's discovery that a chemical linked to birth defects was a common ingredient in nail polish was unsettling. She suspected it wasn't the whole story either.
Besides getting dressed up for the occasional night out, Jane had never given much thought to cosmetics. As a civil engineer who spent ten years cleaning up toxic waste sites, she knew a lot about how chemicals move through the environment. And since having two kids, she had a keen interest in children's health. | | She'd read that some nail polish companies were removing dibutyl phthalate, so she went to the store and bought those less-toxic brands. The flame retardant chemicals were harder to pinpoint. "It felt impossible," Michelle said. So many products contain PBDEs, unlabeled and in unknown amounts — foam furniture, electronics, rugs, even clothing. Most consumer products are unregulated in the US, so manufacturers are allowed to use hazardous chemicals without demonstrating the safety of the products and without labeling them as toxic.
Now Michelle was starting to feel angrier. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  If you lack good nutrition -- vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, essential fatty acids and so on -- and poison your body with the toxic chemicals found in personal care products, home cleaners, air fresheners, dryer sheets, laundry detergent, deodorant, shampoo, nail polish, and all the additives in food and beverages, then of course things are going to start to go wrong with your body. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  You can avoid that by avoiding the things that promote cancer (like hair coloring chemicals, nail polish, chlorine pools, etc.)
7) Educate yourself. The more ignorant you remain of cancer, the more easily the cancer industry can manipulate you and seduce you into their system of harmful treatments. By teaching yourself the truth about cancer prevention, you'll avoid being exploited by an oncologist.
Finally, I'd like you to know that among the well informed natural health practitioners, cancer is considered as easily curable disease in stages 1 - 3. (Only late-stage cancer is challenging. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  And can you imagine all the toxic chemicals found in high-fragrance shampoos, nail polish, makeup remover and dryer sheets? When the truth comes out about those products someday, consumers are going to shocked to discover just how toxic their homes (and bodies) have become thanks to the relentless use of synthetic chemicals by commercial product manufacturers.
This stuff gets absorbed into the food at the grocery store! |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts | | Quaternium 15, a preservative that can be found in cosmetic products, such as self-tanners, shampoo, nail polish and sunscreen, as well as in industrial products, such as polishes, paints and waxes.
The study also confirmed that patch testing using a standard contact dermatitis series of substances is useful for identifying common contact allergens.
Avoiding allergens is the chief treatment for contact dermatitis. In some cases, corticosteroid creams can be used to treat rashes caused by contact dermatitis. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts | | In the United States, where regulators wait for proof before taking action, a few major cosmetic makers are electing to eliminate phthalates from nail polish since they have had to reformulate their products for the overseas market. Some companies are also producing polish that is free of two chemicals that are equally troubling to environmental public health groups: formaldehyde, a preservative, and toluene, a solvent that helps polish to flow more evenly. Nevertheless, the majority of nail products still contain phthalates, formaldehyde, and toluene. |
Mark Schapiro
See book keywords and concepts | | That dibutyl phthalate in its Cover Girl nail polish, he said, was now being taken out of its U.S. Cover Girl formulation, though he insisted the company still does not believe the substance was dangerous. He said the switch was because "American consumers expressed a preference for the European version over our American formulation."20
"Glocalism" was taking a curious turn: The EU's Health and Consumer Protection Directorate was, in effect, displacing the FDA as the reigning authority governing cosmetic formulation. | | Procter & Gamble, like hundreds of other cosmetic companies operating in Europe, was for the first time compelled to prepare "safety portfolios," to be made available on demand to European health authorities, for the ingredients in its mascara, lipstick, hair dye, shampoo, shaving cream, skin cream, perfume, deodorants, nail polish, tanning lotion, and other products. Every quarter, a committee of toxicologists drawn from universities and laboratories across Europe, known as the Scientific Committee on Cosmetic Products, convenes in Brussels to review those ingredients. | | The EWG found hundreds of varieties of skin and tanning lotions, nail polish and mascara and other personal-care products that contain known or possible carcinogens, mutagens, and reproductive toxins. Ninety-nine percent of the products on the market contained one or more ingredients that had "never been publicly assessed for safety." Sixty percent of the products tested contained potential endocrine disrupters, and a third had ingredients that "limited evidence" suggested could be carcinogens. No one before had even looked. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
See book keywords and concepts |  Because developing brains are significantly more vulnerable to toxicity than adult brains, children are at great risk from common chemicals used in plastics, adhesives, aluminum, paint, nylon, nail polish remover, and more. In recent years, chemical exposure has increasingly been linked to a variety of "subclinical" mental health symptoms (behavior changes, cognitive decline) as well as neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism, attention deficit disorder (ADD), and mental retardation. |
David Steinman
See book keywords and concepts |  In the case of phthalates and personal-care products and cosmetics, the addition of a small amount of DBP provides just enough "give" to reduce cracking by making nail polish less brittle and more chip-resistant. When perfume fragrances are dissolved in either DEP or DMP, they evaporate more slowly, making the scent linger longer. In hair sprays, they help avoid stiffness by allowing them to form a flexible film on the hair.
Users of high-end phthalates include some of most popular perfumes. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
See book keywords and concepts |  If you wear nail polish, use a base coat underneath it to prevent yellowing.
Q Use nail polish removers as little as possible. They contain solvents that leach lipids from the nails and make them brittle. These solvents are also potentially highly toxic and can be absorbed through the skin. If you need to use a polish remover, use one that contains acetate instead of acetone.
Q Never apply polycrylic or other artificial nails over your own. They may look nice for a while, but they destroy the underlying nail. |
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