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"Report 99-827] To learn more about the toxic chemicals found in perfumes, cosmetics and personal care products, see www.NotTooPretty.org When you put all this together, the average American is exposed to perhaps two or three hundred toxic chemicals every morning before they even leave the house, and most of those are self-imposed. That's part of what's causing so much liver damage to people. When people wonder why their liver is failing, they usually look for one cause. What was it? Was it one disease, one virus, one type of bacteria? No." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) "All you have to do is follow these healthful habits, get rid of the toxins in your foods, personal care products, and prescription drugs, and you will automatically achieve healthful results. I've seen it happen over and over again. Seek out experts who demonstrate the results you wish to achieve When it comes to issues of credibility in the area of health, I urge you to consider the sources of your information. It only makes sense that we should listen to people who are experts in the areas that we are trying to learn." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Macmillan, 1995), provides information on the safety of many different types of products, including cleaning products, paints, pesticides, pet supplies, auto products, art and craft supplies, cosmetics, personal care products, as well as foods and beverages. Another good source of information is Mary Kerney Levenstein's Everyday Cancer Risks and How to Avoid Them (Avery, 1992). Q Do not take any drugs except for those prescribed by your physician. þ As much as possible, avoid stress." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"In America and Canada, personal care products still contain chemicals that are known carcinogens, like the 1,4-dioxane we learned about in children's bath products in Chapter 9. I hadn't realized how insidious exposures of this sort could be until I met Chandra Tiwary, a distinguished, recently retired endocrinologist from the Brooks military base in Texas, where in the 1990s, he couldn't figure out why he kept seeing black babies with breasts. Girls as young as one and as old as three were showing up with breast growth and pubic hair, a condition called premature puberty." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"This is not an abstract question for the hundreds of millions of people who use cosmetic and personal care products every day. In the United States, the very absence of the FDA in regulating cosmetics suggests (to the public anyway) its implicit endorsement of their safety. The United States relies on industry to determine otherwise. In Europe, the government has thrown those very same ingredients up for independent review and mandated that industry adjust its formulations accordingly. Long had spent fifteen years as a toxicologist at Procter & Gamble before shifting into his current position." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"Eliminate all conventional home care and personal care products from your life: Shampoo, deodorant, soap, cleaners, detergents, dryer sheets, air fresheners, hair spray, hair dye, cosmetics, etc. Replace them all with "green home" and "green personal care" products. (See recommendations later in this book.) «•* Stop eating out of plastic, styrofoam, Teflon and aluminum foil. Eat out of Pyrex or glass containers. For cooking, use iron or stainless steel. •* Clean your air and water. Never drink tap water. Invest in a good water filter (Lotus Water Treatment System at www.Tersano." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"They've always been the safest cosmetics and personal care products available. www.aubrey-organics.com Avalon Organics Avalon Organics' cosmetics are helping to make the organic concept part of the mainstream supermarket shopping experience. This makes them an important player for now. But, although the company was selected to be part of the Green 100, the Organic Consumers Association warned the company's use of floral waters was literally diluting the integrity of what it means to be organic." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"The lab's stated mission is "to identify the best quality health and nutrition products through independent testing," and it tests a variety of nutritional supplements, functional foods, and personal care products. It performs its own comparisons and also conducts commissioned studies for which companies pay a fee. Early in 2005, I paid $24 for a year's subscription to the ConsumerLab.com Web site, which allowed me access to the complete collection of the company's reports on all products, not just to the summaries (which are available to everyone at no cost). I consider this money well spent." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"These are found in our air, fuels, pesticides, herbicides, plastics, clothing and personal care products such as propylene glycol and sodium laurel sulfate. Male offspring born to xenoestrogen-exposed parents often have a lowered sperm count. The food we eat is often contaminated with hormones. Synthetic estrogen is used to fatten cattle, chickens, and other meat-producing animals and to increase milk and egg production. Men naturally have a small amount of progesterone in their body. This progesterone is converted directly to testosterone." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"In addition to the estrogens from animal products, xenoestrogens leach into the food supply from the very containers that the food is packaged in, as well as from the use of pesticides, detergents, personal care products, and other common items of petrochemical origin. Another source is the unenlightened preparation of food, by using plastic containers and utensils while cooking or heating foods in microwave ovens.* The entry of these environmental estrogen-like components into the body causes significant problems." - James Occhiogrosso, N. D., Your Prostate, Your Libido, Your Life (Get the book.)

"Reduce or eliminate the use of toxic household and personal care products. Underarm deodorant, antacids, and pots and pans containing aluminum are good examples. • !?Remove allergens and dust. Cleanse your home as much as possible of these elements. • ?Minimize electromagnetic radiation (EMR).EMR from radios,TVs, and microwave ovens can be toxic. • ?Reduce ionizing radiation. Don't overdo sun exposure or medical tests such as X-rays. • ?Reduce your exposure to heavy metals." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"The chemical industry produces tens of thousands of new chemical compounds every year, some of which are toxic to our body. Many personal care products contain numerous synthetic compounds structured to fit into receptor sites on the cells but not to be released (as in "I've fallen and I can't get up"). This is not always a good thing, because then these cells can no longer function properly and become a burden to the rest of the body. It is as if someone went throughout a factory handcuffing the employees to their machines, one by one." - Tom Woloshyn, The Complete Master Cleanse: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing the Benefits of The Lemonade Diet (Get the book.) "If you use a lot of personal care products, you might consider testing a small amount of essential oil on your skin. If you get an allergic reaction, immediately apply a vegetable oil to remove the essential oil. Do not use soap and water. Ingestion The third method for applying essential oils is to ingest them. They can come already encapsulated, or you can dilute them with vegetable oil or combine them with something like maple syrup to disguise the taste. I prefer to put my oils into empty vegetarian gel capsules, which can be purchased at health food stores." - Tom Woloshyn, The Complete Master Cleanse: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing the Benefits of The Lemonade Diet (Get the book.)

"Whether it's personal care products, cleaning products or food products, these are products that healthy people wouldn't want to consume in the first place. People who thinks they're smart by using coupons are actually being fooled or seduced by food and product marketing companies. They're being seduced into thinking they're saving money, when in fact they are spending far more money than they need to. My observation, by the way ?and this is not a judgment, if you happen to be a person who uses a lot of coupons ?is that people who have higher incomes and higher education don't use coupons." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"Hain-Celestial Hain Celestial Group, headquartered in Melville, New York, is a leading natural and organic beverage, snack, specialty food, and personal care products company in North America and Europe." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"But in their paper they speculated on many possible sources, including a wide range of cosmetics and personal care products. "As soon as I read that, I thought wow. Here's this chemical, a potent reproductive toxicant, in our bodies, and it's possibly because of cosmetics," Jane Houlihan said. She knew cosmetics had labels on the back, even though she'd hardly bothered to read them because they're so difficult to interpret. So she decided to do a little detective work. She headed across the street to the Rite Ad in Dupont Circle and started reading labels. " - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"More and more personal care products that are labeled "organic" actually contain free glutamic acid (MSG). Soon soaps, shampoos, and other body care products will have glutamate surfactants in them, as well as products that contain hydrolyzed proteins. Much of that MSG will enter your body through the skin." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"This company offers natural personal care products made without artificial or animal ingredients or chemicals. Wholesomebabyfood.com www.wholesomebabyfood.com Nutritional guidelines and instructions for parents on making all-natural, homemade baby food." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.) "In our quest for beauty we use untold synthetic personal care products loaded with hundreds of untested chemical combinations. These are applied to the skin and immediately absorbed into the human body. What is the price for vanity? For years, we have prepared food using Teflon® surfaces to make cooking and cleaning easier and faster only to find that the manufacturer has known for years of its ill effects on humans." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"Make sure you avoid mercury and aluminum by avoiding toxic chemicals in personal care products such as deodorants and shampoos that are made with toxic fragrance chemicals. This also includes laundry detergents and anti-static dryer sheets that are loaded with fragrance chemicals. Foods for your brain and bones You can also give yourself outstanding brain nutrition by eating avocados, eggs, fresh berries and various raw vegetables. For avoiding osteoporosis, you need to get a large amount of calcium into your diet, but drinking milk is not the way to do that." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"This includes an array of chemicals including pharmaceutical residues, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, personal care products, food additives, preservatives, and pesticides. The significance of these compounds is their potential for adverse health effects, interaction with other compounds, and results of low-level chronic exposure. With the advent of the information highway, it is becoming easier to become educated about these potential consequences." - Richard, Dr. DiCenso, Beyond Medicine, exploring a new way of thinking (Get the book.)

"A vast number of chemicals are now known to mimic the effect of natural estrogens from those found in pesticides and plasticizers to common foods and personal care products. Indeed, due to the major extent in which xenoestrogens have crept into virtually every aspect of our lives, our modern environment has been likened by scientists to "living in a sea of estrogens." Chemical Xenoestrogens While you may think that this ability of chemicals to mimic estrogens is largely accidental, in some instances this could not be further from the truth. Take, for example, the plastic known as bisphenol A." - Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton, Toxic Overload: A Doctor's Plan for Combating the Illnesses Caused by Chemicals in Our Foods, Our Homes, and Our Medicine Cabinets (Get the book.)

"Visit www. vtsoap. com. Avalon Organics (www.avalonorganics.com), Dr. Hauschka (www.drhauschka.com), Lily Organics (www.Ulyorganics.com), Eco Bella (www.ecobella.com), Logona (www.logona.com), MyChelle (www.mychelle.com), Paul Penders (www.paul penders.com), Terressentials (www.terressentials.com), and Weleda (www.weleda.com) all offer cosmetic products available in the United States, Europe, and Asia that are purest of the pure and that eschew phthalates and almost all other petrochemical-based ingredients. (Some are even part of our Green 100.) Does My Product Contain Phthalates?" - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Although we are exposed daily to chemicals through our water, air, cleaning products, and personal care products, our greatest risk of chemical exposure is through our foods. This is also the area over which we have the most control. If you suspect food chemical reactions are a problem for you, try to avoid them by reading labels and buying organic produce, meats, packaged products, and dairy. Also, when eating in restaurants ask them for more organic foods." - Elson M. Haas, M.D., The New Detox Diet: The Complete Guide for Lifelong Vitality With Recipes, Menus, and Detox Plans (Get the book.)

"Are the ingredients in cosmetics and personal care products approved by the government? There is an industry sponsored Cosmetic Ingredient Review (CIR) that tests the ingredients. Essentially, this is a self-regulated industry. 7. Are the manufacturers of cosmetics and personal care products required to list the ingredients? Yes, hair sprays, creams, shaving lotions, and perfumes should list ingredients. On the other hand, this applies to items manufactured in this country. If they are imported, they might not have an ingredient label. 8." - Grace Ross Lewis, 1001 Chemicals in Everyday Products (Get the book.)

"COSMETICS: (See personal care products). DEHUMIDIFIERS See suppliers in this sector. ECOCLEAN PRODUCTS AND SERVICES 480.947 5286 The Asthma and Allergy Store, 3511 N. 70th Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85251. Mattress/pillow dust mite protectors and many other supplies. Do local carpet and furniture safe cleaning. ELECTRIC HEATERS Small Space Heaters: "Polonis", Purchase at local hardware store. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Formerly PARF), 800.787.8780,716.875.5578 FAX: 716-875-5399, 1421 Colvin Blvd., Buffalo, NY 14223." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.)

"Many plastics, household chemicals, personal care products, and environmental toxins, pesticides, herbicides, hormones, antibiotics and other synthetic drugs, send manmade hormone-disrupting chemicals into our bodies and the natural environment. Although the extent to which this exposure affects human health is unknown, there is growing evidence that suggests it may be responsible for recent worldwide increases in health problems, including precocious puberty, breast and prostate cancer, infertility, low sperm counts, auto-immune diseases, and even osteoporosis." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.)

"Natural Organic Hair and Skin Care, are proof he takes the study of natural ingredients and their applications in personal care products seriously. Foremost is his company's philosophy "All Aubrey Organics® products are completely natural, made with herbals, essential oils and natural vitamins. No synthetic chemicals of any kind are ever found in any of our formulas. We use liquid coconut oil in our soaps and shampoos and coconut fatty acids and essential fatty acids in our creams and lotions, and a natural preservative of citrus seed and vitamins A, C and E." - Paula Begoun, Don't Go Shopping for Hair-Care Products Without Me (Get the book.)

"Cosmetic Ingredient Review, the industry's self-policing safety panel.5 Not So Pure and Clean Pure, clean,gentle. There's hardly a product label that doesn't use these words. Yet according to Skin Deep, up to 80% of products may contain one or more hidden hazards that are not even listed on product labels. Recent product tests chronicled in the book Safe Trip to Eden by David Steinman shed light on this problem with cosmetics safety.6 Don't trust these odds? Then you should know: only 11% of the 10,500 chemicals in your cosmetics have been screened for safety." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

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