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"From a mile away this woman would pick up drifts and her immune system was responding to the solvents and detergents that are used to disperse the sprays over a wide area. But when we measured her cholinesterase, we found that it fluctuated. When it went down—meaning it was inactivated by pesticide exposure—then she would have more symptoms, particularly depressions. When she would recover and be at her high level—meaning she was not impaired—she would feel perfectly healthy and normal and was a vivacious, dynamic person. I call this the 'pesticide neurosis." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"The Six Families of Hormone Disrupters The six major classes of hormone disrupters in many cosmetics and personal care products include preservatives, detergents (or surfactants), solvents (or plasticizers), metalloestrogens, lavender and tea tree oil, and sunscreen ingredients. Preservatives Preservatives are the most widely used hormone-disruptive ingredients in cosmetics and personal care products. Three types of preservatives pose major health concerns: parabens, triclosan, and resorcinol." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "The category also includes numerous hidden carcinogens, including formaldehyde, released by quaternium 15 and diazolidinyl urea; 1,4-dioxane and ethylene oxide, contaminating a wide range of ethoxylated detergents; and nitrosarnine precursors, including bronopol and diethanolamine (DEA). The Council continues to challenge evidence on the carcinogenicity of such ingredients and contaminants. Responding to the U.S. National Toxicology Program 1997 draft report on the carcinogenicity of DEA following skin painting of mice, the Council alleged several problems with the studies." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "Black and dark brown permanent and semi-permanent dyes contain numerous frank and hidden carcinogens including ppd dyes (which are acute irritants, and allergenic), preservatives, nitrosamine precursors, detergents, and much less commonly, lead acetate in products for men. Black and dark-brown semi-permanent hair dyes also contain a group of carcinogens, called phenylenediamines, known to cause cancers, particularly non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, multiple myeloma, bladder cancer, and breast cancer." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Avoid fabric softeners or laundry detergents that use nonylphe-nol or octylphenol, which place petrochemicals in contact with your skin. Use natural forms of pest control. Avoid condoms with the spermicide nonoxyl-9, which breaks down into a xenoestrogen. Know Your Symptoms et's talk about how you feel and what symptoms you are having, and the many reasons you may be feeling this way. As you will see, ¦¦¦miii1 symptoms are key. They provide the clues to better understand your underlying imbalances. Most of us are looking for a quick fix, one pill to end our misery." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Substances that have been shown to have estrogenic effects in the body include polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), weed killers, substances that line cans, plastics, detergents, and household cleaners.31 Despite this lack of identification of a definitive link between chemical exposures and endometriosis, we do know that women are exposed to a multitude of chemicals in utero, in childhood, peripubertally (the time around the appearance of secondary sex characteristics such as pubic hair), and as adults." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Alkylphenolic compounds, which are often a main ingredient in all-purpose cleaners and laundry detergents, are endocrine disruptors that have been shown to mimic the hormone estrogen and disrupt the body's hormone signals that regulate reproduction and development. Ammonia, which can be found in conventional window cleaners, furniture polishes and waxes, and metal polishes and cleaners—is listed as a toxic chemical on the EPA's Community Right-to-Know list. It irritates the skin, eyes, and respiratory passages, causing all sorts of respiratory problems, including pulmonary edema." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Exposure to these chemicals—which can be present in everything from toxic plastics and conventional laundry detergents to organophosphate pesticides?could disrupt the body's hormone signals that regulate reproduction and development, either by blocking, mimicking, or interfering with the action of hormones. "If left to our own devices, our bodies are really pretty good about making checks and balances," said Dr. Mady Hornig, an associate professor of epidemiology at Columbia University. " - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Phenol, often an ingredient in conventional laundry detergents, all-purpose cleaners, air fresheners, disinfectants and furniture polish, metal polishes and cleaners, fabric softeners and dryer sheets, is a known mutagen and suspected carcinogen. It can severely irritate or burn skin, eyes, nose, mouth, throat, and lungs. Phenol can also interfere with the ability of the blood to carry oxygen and cause bronchitis to develop. Higher exposures can cause a buildup of fluid in the lungs, which can lead to pulmonary edema." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"A decade later, levels in some products were found to range up to 80 parts per million (3), but the FDA still took no regulatory action against dioxane-contaminated detergents. A further example of the FDA's regulatory recklessness is its continued failure to require labeling of alpha-hydroxy acid "skin peelers," even though the Agency admitted in 1992 that these chemicals pose a serious risk to health." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Pesticides are disbursed in the mist of solvents and detergents, both of which are actually more allergenic than the pesticide itself. It may also be, when we say pesticide, we have to think of the whole picture. You don't get pesticide in pure form, you get it in the trade forms, whether it's kerosene or some other vehicle, and the vehicle itself may be more noxious and particularly more sensitizing than the pesticide." Among other everyday sources of environmental toxins are paint, perfume, furniture, and carpets." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Benzene is present in crude oil and gasoline and is an important industrial chemical which is used in industry as a solvent or to make other chemicals and products such as dyes, detergents, nylon and plastics. It is found in everyday items including gasoline, paints and paint removers. Benzene is a clear, colorless and flammable liquid with a sweet odor. Research conducted since the 1980s by the National Cancer Institute has found that workers exposed to benzene, even at relatively low levels, have lower levels of white blood cells." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Higher levels are released from the vapors of benzene-containing products such as glues, paints, furniture wax, and detergents. An estimated 44,240 new cases of leukemia will be diagnosed in the United States in 2007. Sometimes chronic low doses can be even more toxic than acute high doses. This looks to be especially true when it comes to the toxins that affect your hormonal, or endocrine, system. Moreover, toxic chemicals can react in unexpected ways, especially when combined with other chemicals. Scientists simply cannot predict who is vulnerable to which substances or at which dosages." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "The Lion's Den Wherever you store household cleaners, detergents, disinfectants, bleaches, stain removers for the laundry, and so on, aim to tackle this place gradually. Replace one or two products a week with natural ones, and try making your own where possible using the ideas on pages 63-65. Every year, about half a million tons of liquid cleaners go down the drain in the United States alone." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "You willfind all-purpose liquid detergents and all-purpose soaps at most health food stores. Lemon Floor Wash Vi cup liquid soap or detergent V2 cup lemon juice V2 cup white distilled vinegar 25 drops lemon essential oil 1 gallon water Combine all ingredients in a bucket. Mix until soapy. Mop or sponge to clean thefloor as normal, and rinse. Lemon Furniture Polish 1 cup olive oil 1/2cup lemon juice Combine ingredients in a spray bottle and shake well to mix. Apply a small amount to aflannel cloth or cleaning rag. Spread evenly over surface. Turn cloth to other side and polish dry." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Some industrial chemicals, detergents, and food dyes are classified as hormone disrupters because they are estrogen mimics. Our bodies mistake synthetic estrogens for the real thing, accept it, and process it, which causes an imbalance of our natural hormones. Red Dye #3, for example, which is used in hot dogs and other processed foods, contains synthetic estrogen. The plastic coating in many food cans contains a powerful estrogen mimic. In the wild, we are now finding that animals, birds, and fish exposed to pesticides and industrial chemicals are having difficulty producing healthy offspring." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"The two main types are contact dermatitis, which is aggravated when the skin comes in direct contact with an allergen such as household detergents and chemicals, or even cosmetics; and atopic dermatitis, which is aggravated by ingested or inhaled allergens such as certain foods, pollen, dust, or animal dander. These external triggers ultimately irritate and strip away the outermost layer of skin—called the stratum corneum—causing moisture to escape. From there, it's a vicious cycle: The moisture escapes, which lets in more allergens, which triggers another drying reaction, and so on." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Ingenious new chemicals were starting to be employed to help manufacture everything Americans demanded to make their lives easier, simpler, and more luxurious—from plastics to hair shampoo, detergents, brake linings, carpet pads, cold creams, dry cleaning fluid, foam cushions, paint strippers, household cleansers and bleaches, and bigger, grander cars. Almost overnight, Americans began to find themselves inundated with and clamoring for the suburban home products, packaged goods, and manufactured foods churned out by mega-industry." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Many of the products used in cosmetics, skin care, soaps, detergents, shampoos, etc. contain ingredients that are categorically cancer causing. Here are a couple of examples. DEA, or diethanolamine. This particular ingredient has been found in over 600 home and personal care products. These products include shampoos, conditioners, bubble baths, lotions, cosmetics, soaps, laundry and dishwashing detergents. It is just one of an estimated 125 ingredients used in home and personal care products that have been proven to cause cancer. Dr." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"This includes leaving your plastic water bottle in your car during errands, in your backpack during hikes, and running it through your dishwasher or using harsh detergents. What's more, a 2003 study conducted by the University of Missouri published in the journal, Environmental Health Perspectives, found that detectable levels of BPA leached into liquids at room temperature. This means just having your plastic water bottle sitting on your desk can be potentially harmful. The best thing to do is to avoid plastic altogether." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"Usually the symptoms went away when the individual left the environment, but in some cases the symptoms persisted and would be made substantially worse by exposure to strong odorants, such as detergents, perfumes, newsprint, and insecticides. Patients with these complaints were said to have multiple chemical sensitivity. Though many MCS cases seem to start with an identifiable trigger (like working in a new building), some have no apparent trigger. So far, no good consensus definition for this condition exists." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"And if there is toxicity in their air, water, and/or food environment—such as chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, larvicides, fungicides, detergents, bleaches, toxic solvents—then these toxins accumulate in the animal. Dairy products contain five times as many pesticides as commercial fruits and vegetables. And flesh foods, such as fish or chicken, which are higher up on the food chain, contain fifteen times as many pesticide residues as commercial fruits and vegetables." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"And conventional household cleaners—from chlorine bleach-based detergents to drain cleaners—have been linked to a staggering range of illnesses, especially childhood illnesses, from asthma to cancer. Eliminating toxic household cleaners can greatly improve your home's indoor air quality, which has become a major health issue in recent years. Indoor air pollution—which can be two to five times worse than outdoor air pollution—has contributed to a rise in childhood respiratory disorders, including asthma and allergies." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"A poor harvest in the parched Philippines raised prices for coconut oil, soaps, and detergents. Renewed drought brought famine to the Sahel, and thousands of southern African farmers starved. Meanwhile, Californians watched expensive houses slide down waterlogged hillsides. In Peru the small coastal fishing villages of a century ago are now cities. The 1982 ENSO debilitated the anchovy fishery and sent roaring floods cascading through poor urban neighborhoods; hundreds drowned." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Excess exposure to detergents and cleaning solutions may be contributing to the condition. A new, and highly controversial, medical specialty—clinical ecology—has developed over the past 20 years to provide additional expertise to patients, allergists and other doctors. Patients are advised to substitute organic foods for commercially prepared ones, and natural-based cleaning products and homemade scrubs for commercial cleaners. For a list of alternative cleaning products, write or contact: • The Ecology Center, 117 N. Division, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 (734-761-3186)." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"There is evidence that detergents, farm chemicals ?and even radiation ?have contaminated many spring sources. He also recommends water filtered by reverse osmosis, as well as electronically restructured alkaline water. Yet although Baroody claims that distilled water is negatively charged, it too takes on a positive charge in the presence of polluted air, which includes virtually all indoor and outdoor urban air. This is why ionized (negatively charged) water is becoming more and more popular. First it is distilled and filtered, then ionized." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Soap is a surfactant, as are the synthetic detergents in most laundry and dishwashing products. Only products traditionally made from fat and lye are called soap, while all other surfactants are called detergents. There are more than 100 different alkylphenols. Alkylphenol ethoxylates (apes)—along with their derivatives, the commonly used nonyl phenol ethoxylates (npes)—are used as the "detergents" in many industrial processes and in everyday household products. Some 660 million pounds of apes are produced each year and ultimately released into the environment." - D. Lindsey Berkson, Hormone Deception (Get the book.)

"Whenever possible, use hypoallergenic skin care products, deodorants, shaving creams, soaps, hair products, cosmetics, household products, and laundry detergents. Keep in mind, however, that hypoallergenic means only that a product is not likely to cause allergies; not that it will not. Also, when choosing products, look for "fragrance-free" formulas rather than an "unscented" one. Q Wear cool, loose clothing. Next to the skin, cotton is best. Q Avoid prolonged contact with known skin irritants including chemicals, dust, direct sunlight, and water." - 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.)

"These products include shampoos, conditioners, bubble baths, lotions, cosmetics, soaps, laundry and dishwashing detergents. It is just one of an estimated 125 ingredients used in home and personal care products that have been proven to cause cancer. Dr. Samuel Epstein, author of The Safe Shopper's Bible, and founder of the American Coalition to Prevent Cancer, is considered the world's leading authority on toxicology. He believes that DEA categorically causes cancer. Yet even though the FDA knows that this ingredient, as well as many others, leads to cancer, it remains in the products you buy." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.) "It is not only used in brake and hydraulic fluids, paints and coatings, floor wax, pet food, tobacco products, and laundry detergents, but also in cosmetics, toothpastes, shampoos, deodorants, lotions, and processed foods. You will even find it in baby wipes. Check the labels, you will be amazed. This is why pets are getting more cancer than ever before. Pet food companies are using it in pet food. This is why children are getting cancer at a higher rate than ever before. In addition to causing cancer, propylene glycol also causes dermatitis, kidney damage, and liver abnormalities." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

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