Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 One of the more curious personal care products on the market is Herbal Essences shampoo by Clairol. Personally, I think this product is a joke because it's trying to exploit the word "herbal" to imply that the shampoo is healthy, even though it is primarily made with the same ingredients as other popular shampoos. The first three ingredients, for example, are: water, sodium laureth, and sodium lauryl sulfate. Big deal, huh? You can find the same three ingredients in 99-cent shampoo at Wal-Mart. |
| In other words, this is a shampoo product purchased by naive consumers, in my opinion. People who really know herbs and natural products can only laugh at a product like this. Want a real shampoo? Buy Olive Oil shampoo from Heritage Products, available at most natural health stores.
The bottom line to all of this, though, is that every week, it seems like we see a new announcement about some toxic chemical found in personal care products that is related to either cancer or neurological disorders. |
| Personally, I think this product is a joke because it's trying to exploit the word "herbal" to imply that the shampoo is healthy, even though it is primarily made with the same ingredients as other popular shampoos. The first three ingredients, for example, are: water, sodium laureth, and sodium lauryl sulfate. Big deal, huh? You can find the same three ingredients in 99-cent shampoo at Wal-Mart. |
| Want a real shampoo? Buy Olive Oil shampoo from Heritage Products, available at most natural health stores.
The bottom line to all of this, though, is that every week, it seems like we see a new announcement about some toxic chemical found in personal care products that is related to either cancer or neurological disorders. And yet week after week these products are being sold by retailers and consumed in large quantities by the American people who remain oblivious to the real damage these products are causing to their health. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Shampoo and bath products
Virtually all popular shampoo and bath products sold on the market contain cancer-causing chemicals. The ingredients read like a top-40 list of toxic chemicals. Virtually none of these chemicals have ever been tested or approved for use on humans (they are simply ignored because the FDA astonishingly believes the skin won't absorb chemicals). If you want healthy products, use the shampoo I recommend: Pure Essentials Fragrance-Free shampoo from Earth Science (www.TheNewES. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| But if you're buying these popular shampoo products, that's exactly what you're doing right now. Such is the power of brand marketing in America. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Instead, they're really intended to make our lives better. Take shampoo, for example. There are specific ingredients in shampoo that are included to make sure that it lathers up foamier than a cumulus cloud—something that many of us like. But in some people, those very chemicals may also cause a skin irritation.
Some of the toxins that we encounter are potentially very harmful and can cause cancer, asthma, or allergies, and they can also reduce your quality of life in more subtle ways. They may cause minor irritations or fatigue or a general feeling of blahness. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| If you want healthy products, use the shampoo I recommend: Pure Essentials Fragrance-Free shampoo from Earth Science (www.TheNewES.com)
Keeping your health priorities straight
So that's the list of 20 items that are more dangerous to the health of children than the lead paint in Mattel toys. Most parents have no concern whatsoever for any of these 20 things, but they're going ape-shoot-crazy over the tiny amounts of lead in their Barbie toys and Elmo stuffed animals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You see this in personal care products and shampoo, too, where companies claim to offer "herbal" shampoos that have practically no detectable levels of real herbs in them. In foods, companies pad the ingredients lists with healthy-sounding berries, herbs or superfoods that are often only present in miniscule amounts. Having "spirulina" appear at the end of the ingredients list is practically meaningless. There's not enough spirulina in the food to have any real effect on your health. |
Linda B. White, M.D.
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 Pour into empty shampoo bottles and label. Use about \ cup in 2 cups of water as a rinse after shampooing.
Drug treatment
Shampoos
Shampoos containing tar (Denorex, T-Sal), zinc pyrithion (Head and Shoulders), or selenium (Selsun Blue). Function: remove the outer layer of dead cells from the skin. Side effects: irritation and inflammation of the hair follicles, allergic reactions.
Ketoconazole shampoos (Nizoral). Function: block the growth of fungus that can be associated with dandruff. Side effects: stinging, itching, and redness of the skin. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| If you want healthy products, use the shampoo I recommend: Pure Essentials Fragrance-Free shampoo from Earth Science (www.TheNewES.com)
Keeping your health priorities straight
So that's the list of 20 items that are more dangerous to the health of children than the lead paint in Mattel toys. Most parents have no concern whatsoever for any of these 20 things, but they're going ape-shoot-crazy over the tiny amounts of lead in their Barbie toys and Elmo stuffed animals. |
| If you make meat for your children, shop for 100% organic, free-range, antibiotic-free meats that have no nitrites or nitrates.
20. shampoo and bath products
Virtually all popular shampoo and bath products sold on the market contain cancer-causing chemicals. The ingredients read like a top-40 list of toxic chemicals. Virtually none of these chemicals have ever been tested or approved for use on humans (they are simply ignored because the FDA astonishingly believes the skin won't absorb chemicals). |
Glenn W. Geelhoed, M.D. and Jean Barilla, M.S.
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 Then rinse and shampoo.
YUCCA A treatment for dandruff once popular among Mexicans has spread to New Mexico and the American Southwest. The yucca plant, also called the desert amole, is used to produce a sudsy shampoo that eliminates dandruff.
Helpful Hints
¦ Choose the right shampoo and hair rinse. Many commercial shampoos contain detergents which may cause dryness and upset the pH balance of your scalp. Shampoos which have a castile soap or herbal base will be more gentle and may reduce the flaking condition. |
Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe
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 While in their "hair" identities, they brainstormed what qualities would most please them in a shampoo. Some wanted a powerful cleanser that would root out dirt from the scalp. Others, fearing for their split ends, asked for a milder formula. In the end, the human "hair shafts" settled on a new shampoo that would automatically adjust to every hair need. Silkience, the product they invented, remains one of the leading shampoos on the market.5
MINDS WITHIN MINDS
Force-fitting is an important principle, but it hardly explains even half the phenomena associated with what I call Model Thinking. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 How Supplied: Powder, gel ointment, ophthalmic solution, tincture (10%), tea (infusion), shampoo and hand cream.
Cream
Gel - 7%, 10% Ointment - 4% Ophthalmic solution Tea
Tincture
Shampoo
Preparation:
Tea — 150 mL of hot water are poured over 1 to 2 teaspoons drug and strained after approximately 10 minutes.
Diaphoretic — 2 to 4 mL tincture to 250 to 500 mL water or 0.5 to 1 mL liquid extract 1:1 ethanol 40%.
Ointment (10 to 20%) — 2 to 5 g drug in 100 g ointment with a fatty base.
Marigold oil — olive oil extraction 1:10 peanut oil; this 1:1 in 40% ethanol or 1:5 in 90% ethanol. |
David Steinman
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 L'Oreal Kids Orange Mango Smoothie shampoo 2 ppm
Scooby-Doo Bubble Bath from Kid Care?3 ppm
Sesame Street Elmo Wet Wild Watermelon 7.4 ppm
Bubble Bath
1,4-Dioxane Levels in Adult Consumer Products
Product
Concentration
Dove Dishwashing Liquid
2.5 ppm
Keri Skin Lotion
0.5 ppm
Olay Complete Body Wash with Vitamins
23 ppm
(normal skin)
Pert Plus Shampoo
6.1 ppm
SafeScience Dishwashing Liquid
4.9 ppm
Suave Naturals Passion Flower
2 ppm
Sunlight Dishwashing Liquid
4.3 ppm
Simple Green Cleaner
0.2 ppm
Of the total 1.13 million pounds of 1,4-dioxane released into the U.S. |
Stacy Malkan
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 I looked for phthalates, looked for phthalates, looked for phthalates," up and down the shampoo section, deodorant, face cream and makeup sections. She went cross-eyed trying to make out tiny words on nail polish bottles. There, she found what she was looking for. More than half the nail polishes had the phthalate DBP listed on the labels.
Jane went back to the office with some samples of DBP-containing nail polish and a big question: The CDC researchers had said in their paper that phthalates were in a wide range of cosmetics; why was she finding them only in nail polish? |
| Nanoemulsions in shampoo encapsulate active ingredients and carry them deeper into hair shafts.
• Nanosomes of Pro-Retinol A penetrate the skin's surface to soften wrinkles and reduce the appearance of fine neck creases.
• Nanovectors transport and concentrate active ingredients in the skin.
Deeper, faster, further. As if there weren't enough concerns about the toxicity of cosmetic chemicals, manufacturers are rushing to incorporate nanotechnology that uses particles 80,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. |
| The carcinogen in the baby shampoo can't be separated from the carcinogens in the food and the air, just as the polluting chemical plants aren't separate from the leaching trash dumps at the end of the line; they aren't separate from the skyrocketing asthma rates or the chemo parties in the brand-new children's cancer ward.
The story of chemistry also brings us to the threshold of new possibilities. Designing substances at the molecular level so they do not induce toxic effects — who ever thought chemistry could be so cool! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mike: I'm reminded of some of the shampoos that you can find at Wal-Mart, like Herbal Essences shampoo. You look at it, and where are the herbs?
Bronner: Exactly, and it's almost worse (than) what's happening in the natural channel because at least at Wal-Mart, the consumer doesn't necessarily care whether there are herbs. But at health food stores, consumers are motivated to support organics. They want organics. It's that much worse, then, to see this deceit, deception or fraud going on. A lot of people complain about the Clairol "Organic and Orgasm" ad, and yes, that's not great. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Wouldn't it be great if shampoo also grew on trees?
Actually, it does.
More than just laundry soap
The natural saponins found in Maggie's Soap Nuts are universal cleaning agents. Sure, they work great in the laundry, but did you know they are also traditionally used to clean skin and hair? In fact, the soap nut saponins work on everything from pets and children to washing fruits and vegetables. In ancient India, jewelers even used the soap to shine their precious metals and stones, giving them a beautiful natural luster. |
Stacy Malkan
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| We inhale these toxicants
Daily Dose: How many personal care products did you use just this morning? shampoo, deodorant, lotion, makeup — the average woman uses a dozen personal care products containing 168 chemical ingredients every day. Men use about six products a day containing 85 chemicals. We absorb, inhale and ingest many of these chemicals into our bodies.2 from the air, drink them in our water, eat them in our food, spray them around our homes and rub them on our bodies. So it makes sense they'd also be in us. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Work to safely get off all prescription drugs, eat a diet of natural, wholesome foods (and avoid processed foods), exercise regularly, avoid toxic chemicals in your home (throw out those toxic laundry detergents and switch to soap nuts), and toss those toxic personal care products (skin creams, cosmetics, shampoo, etc.). Stay natural, healthy and alert. Be well, and you'll be the exception! And please, never be so gullible as to think that your government is going to "save you" with a new health care reform plan. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 It can be prepared as a fragrant shampoo or rinse to help prevent hair loss, as a salve to relieve inflammation (including that related to eczema and psoriasis), or as a massage oil to treat cellulite, earache, edema, rheumatism, and sore muscles.
Lavender essential oil is an excellent remedy for relieving pain, promoting healing, and preventing infection and scarring. It can be applied topically, undiluted, to treat acne, athlete's foot, bee stings, boils, burns, cold sores, headache, infected wounds, insect and spider bites, joint soreness, scabies, and toothache. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Upgrade your soap, your shopping habits, your lawn care chemicals, your shampoo and your cosmetics. Eat plants instead of pharmaceuticals, and you'll urinate nutrients instead of poison. Wash your clothes in soap nuts instead of manufactured laundry detergent and you'll protect life down stream instead of destroying it.
By the way, even as we are offering this natural laundry product, I simultaneously support companies like Seventh Generation who have a full line of eco-friendly cleaning products. Please shop for eco-friendly cleaning products every chance you get. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They get up in the morning. They shampoo with toxic fragrance chemicals. They drink the coffee, which depletes adrenals, and they smoke a cigarette. They suck car exhaust commuting to work. This burden is daily, and they do not take nutrition. How are they even alive?
Dr. Liers: I do think the body has some wisdom in terms of compartmentalization. There is probably a hierarchy in the body of: "We need to have this or we will not be alive. We will throw heavy metals into bone. We can get away with that. We can throw pesticides into adipose tissue, and at least it is sequestered for a while. |
Mark Schapiro
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 A glass case in the foyer features a collection of Procter & Gamble's array of familiar products: a Head & Shoulders shampoo bottie, Mr. Clean household cleanser (M. Propre in its French variation), Gillette razor blades and shaving cream, a canister of Pringles, a box of Ariel detergent. The week before I visited, Procter & Gamble had bought another giant of the industry, Gillette. It is safe to say that Procter & Gamble has a presence in almost every American and European home. |
| In the average home, phthalates are everywhere in shower curtains, shampoo bottles, raincoats, and perfumes (for aiding adherence to the skin). Those plastic rubber ducks floating in the bathtub are so squishy because of the phthalates with which they have been saturated. In hospitals, they are in medical tubing. One of the components of that distinctly "new" smell of a new car comes from phthalates that have been added to the plastic dashboard. |
| 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. |
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