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"Avoid cosmetics that include parabens (methyl-, ethyl-, propyl-, and butylparabens); phthalates; sodium laureth/sodium laurel sulfate; butyl/ethyl acetate; petrolatum; cocamide DEA/lauramide DEA; diazolidinyl urea; propylene glycol; toluene; synthetic colors and fragrances; and triethanolamine. Likewise, avoid using synthetic perfumes and cologne. Studies show that many perfumes and colognes often contain phthalates and parabens (both of which are known endocrine disruptors)." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"In 1998 it was found that parabens can behave like estrogen, and studies since have shown that parabens cause breast cancer in rats. A British study in 2004 showed high levels of methylparaben in breast cancer cells. Though these studies are not definitive, there is growing concern that parabens may be linked to breast cancer, which would have enormous implications for the cosmetic industry. Plastics contain products such as bisphenol-A, which was originally developed as a synthetic estrogen and is in plastic bottles used for drinking water, baby bottles, food wraps, and dental composites." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "Nearly all skin products, deodorants, and cosmetics contain preservatives, known as parabens, that have been linked to breast cancer. Methylparaben has been shown to enter the skin and is concentrated in our fat cells. In 1998 it was found that parabens can behave like estrogen, and studies since have shown that parabens cause breast cancer in rats. A British study in 2004 showed high levels of methylparaben in breast cancer cells." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"But not only can they trigger allergic reactions and skin rashes, studies have shown that they are weakly estrogenic and can be absorbed by the body through the skin. parabens could be responsible for accelerating the growth of tumors in the breast. Because parabens are used in commercial deodorants, particularly antiperspirants, scientists are now considering a link between the use of common deodorants and an increased risk of breast cancer in women." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"PARABENS • The parabens, methyl-, propyl-, and parahydroxybenzoate, are the most commonly used preservatives in the United States. In 1977, about 30 percent of the cosmetic products registered with the Food and Drug Administration contained parabens. Water is the only ingredient used more frequently in cosmetics. The parabens have a broad spectrum of antimicrobial activity, are safe to use— relatively nonirritating, nonsensitizing, and nonpoisonous—are stable over the pH (see) range in cosmetics, and are sufficiently soluble in water to be effective in liquids." - Ruth Winter, M.S., A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients (Get the book.)

"Today, industrial food manufacturers have at their disposal an endless variety of chemical ways to preserve food, including benzoates, BHA, BHT, FD&C dyes, MSG, nitrates, nitrites, parabens, and sulfites. The final step in food processing is the addition of vitamins and minerals, to make up for what was lost during the initial heat-stripping phase." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "Studies show that many perfumes and colognes often contain phthalates and parabens (both of which are known endocrine disruptors). Instead, look for organic products that have joined the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, such as the Body Shop, Burt's Bees, Kiss My Face, Aubrey Organics, Avalon Natural Products, and Terr Essentials. Or visit thinkbeforeyoupink.org for a list of companies that produce products that are paraben and phthalate free. AVOID DARK HAIR DYES. As we learned when we went through Becky's day, women who use dark hair dye have three times the risk of developing lupus." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Researchers conclude that "it is biologically implausible that parabens could increase the risk of any male or female reproductive tract cancer. parabens pose less of a risk than mild estrogenlike molecules in the diet." [Critical Reviews Toxicology 35: 435-58, 2005] The public is often confused here because doctors often speak out of two sides of their mouth in regard to estrogen and cancer. For years doctors prescribed estrogen replacement for menopausal women, before research found that it slightly increased the risk for cancer." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"As you apply makeup—foundation, blush, mascara, lipstick, and so on—you are exposed to parabens, which are believed to cause breast cancer and birth abnormalities; artificial colorants, which are suspected carcinogens toxic to the nervous system; triethanolamine, which is linked to cancer, allergies, and immune toxicity; and BHA, a chemical that may cause cancer, hormonal imbalances, and be toxic to organs and the immune system." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Because parabens are used in commercial deodorants, particularly antiperspirants, scientists are now considering a link between the use of common deodorants and an increased risk of breast cancer in women. A woman is eight times more likely to develop breast cancer in the area of the breast closest to the underarm than in any other part of the breast. Diethanolamine (DEA), triethanolamine (TEA): As emulsifiers and/or foaming agents, these villains also can cause allergic reactions, eye irritations, and dryness of hair and skin." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Nail polish, mascaras, perfumes, hair dyes, moisturizers, foundations—all of these popular personal-care products might contain any number of dangerous toxins, including diethanolamine (DEA), a suspected carcinogen; formaldehyde, a known carcinogen; neurotoxic heavy metals like lead and mercury; and various types of parabens, a preservative that can act like estrogen. Like many girls her age, seventeen-year-old Jessica Assaf estimates that she was using around thirty products every single day by the time she was twelve." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Look for a natural vegetarian formula that uses no artificial or synthetically derived fragrances, parabens or preservatives. Look for a formula that uses all natural oils and an enhanced liposome delivery system to help move the progesterone through the skin. And finally, look for a formula that uses only full-profile organic wild yam. Whether you're still going through your menstrual cycles (or whether you're pre-menopausal, menopausal, or post-menopausal), you need to seriously consider supplementation. The benefits are extraordinary; the risks virtually nonexistent." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Though these studies are not definitive, there is growing concern that parabens may be linked to breast cancer, which would have enormous implications for the cosmetic industry. Plastics contain products such as bisphenol-A, which was originally developed as a synthetic estrogen and is in plastic bottles used for drinking water, baby bottles, food wraps, and dental composites. Studies have shown that heating plastic wrap with foods containing oil or fats raises the xenoestrogen content of the food." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "Using Compounded Lotions Obtain a prescription from your doctor and get your hormones from a reputable compounding pharmacist who verifies concentrations and doesn't use parabens in the lotion base. For estradiol lotion I recommend a concentration of 1.0 mg/ml. This concentration avoids confusion when adjusting your dose or when you speak with your doctor because one ml is equal to one mg. Ask your pharmacist to dispense your lotion in a bottle with a syringe cap and to give you a syringe for accurate and adjustable dosing." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Other studies have shown that parabens readily permeate through the skin and accumulate in skin layers, from which they can pass into blood and enter body tissues . (See also chapter 10, for more information on paraben absorption and accumulation.) The second type of preservative is triclosan, an active ingredient in many cosmetics and personal care products, including nearly half of all commercial anti-bacterial soaps, deodorants, detergents, toothpastes, and mouthwashes." - 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.) "In addition to whatever phthalates and parabens soaps and other cleansers may contain, there are two ingredients common to antibacterial soaps and cleansers which pose particular dangers: triclosan and triclocarbon, first discussed in chapter 5. Just since 2000, more than 1,500 new antibacterial products have entered the marketplace." - 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.) "Jason 2-in-l Sliampoo & Body Wash Contains no parabens, lanolin, sodium lauryl, or laureth sulfates. Ingredients: organic chamomile and marigold extracts, lavender, beta glucan www.jason-natural.com SOAPS Emily Skin Sootlwrs Soap Ingredients: shea butter, avocado oil, coconut oil, olive oil, palm oil, Angelica Sinensis Root, Potentillae Chinensis herb, Haplocalyx herb www.emilyskinsoothers.com Aubrey Organics Evening Primrose & Lavender Skin Care Bar Ingredients: primrose oil, lavender oil, shea butter, palm oil www.aubrey-organics.com Dr." - 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.) "For instance, Origins' Plantidote Mega-Mushroom line, which consisted of a face serum and face cream, included the harmful ingredients limonene, parabens, butylenes glycol, and bisabolol. Here is a Usting of the most harmful ingredients (and why they're harmful) from a survey I did of the complete Origins product line: • Limonene, a skin irritant also rated as a carcinogen in 1990 by the National Toxicology Program." - 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.)

"You want to avoid clothing treated with pesticides; toys made with lead and PVCs; personal-care products that contain petroleum distillates, parabens, sulfates, and propylene glycol; and household cleaners that contain chlorine bleach and ammonia. Green Cleaning Greening your cleaning is the simplest—and most essential—step you can take to clean up your family's indoor environment. • Imus's Greening the Cleaning institutional and retail product line. One hundred percent of the after-tax profits from sales of my products go to the Imus Cattle Ranch for Kids with Cancer." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"We decided that there was enough data on the danger of parabens for us to adopt the precautionary principle and eliminate them," though it wasn't an easy decision to switch out an effective ingredient. "People thought we were crazy to do that." There were initial difficulties — problems with products separating on the shelves and product returns, as well as challenges working with manufacturers who had to learn to do things differently — "but it's all been worth it," Morris said, "because now our manufacturers have an unbelievably diverse experience and a capability they didn't have before ..." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.) "Some highlights: • 22 daily doses of parabens, along with four other suspected hormone-disrupting chemicals. •17 hits of chemicals with limited or mixed evidence of carcinogenicity. One ingredient, petroleum distillates in my Cover Girl Marathon Waterproof Mascara, is banned in the European Union. • 17 applications of penetration enhancers, which can draw the other chemicals more deeply into my body. • 15 doses of chemicals that persist in the body or accumulate up the food chain. • 15 products with fragrance — an unspecified mix of chemicals likely to contain phthalates and allergens." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.) "The standard requires natural ingredients with a limited list of allowable synthetics; it rejects synthetic fragrances, dyes and petroleum products, as well as the commonly used preservative parabens. "If you don't get BDIH, don't even think about going to market in Europe" with a natural product, said Jennifer Barckley, public relations manager of Weleda North America. The Swiss-based company is the largest user of organic rose oil in the world, and the company meets its large demand for organic ingredients through fair-trade projects with farmers in several countries. " - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"And with deodorants, avoid phtha-lates, which are plastics used to help the fragrance stay on our skin and block endocrine function, especially in the male fetus. parabens, which are used as preservatives in these products, should also be avoided since they could be linked to breast cancer. Avoid air fresheners, which have gaseous chemicals like those found in moth balls, and the hockey-puck-shaped deodorants in urinals (for those readers lucky enough to frequent the male restroom). They can become toxic when combined with the ozone." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"PARA-AMINOSALICYLIC ACIDS • See Salicylic Acid. parabens • The parabens, methyl-, propyl-, and parahydroxybenzoate, are the most commonly used preservatives in the United States. In 1977, about 30 percent of the cosmetic products registered with the Food and Drug Administration contained parabens. Water is the only ingredient used more frequently in cosmetics." - Ruth Winter, M.S., A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients (Get the book.)

"One class of cosmetic chemicals are parabens, which have been linked to cancer. vitamin D through sunlight may decrease a person's risk of developing breast cancer by 50 percent and of developing colorectal cancer by more than 65 percent. To increase the precision and accuracy of the study, researchers used meta-analysis to pool data from multiple previous studies. They divided subjects into groups based on their blood levels of vitamin D and compared the incidence of cancer between groups." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Some other simple shopping rules on my list: no synthetic "fragrance," no estrogenic ingredients such as parabens or placenta, and no false advertising claims of "pure and gentle" products that may be contaminated with carcinogens. These few guidelines, unfortunately, eliminate many personal care products on the shelves of mainstream stores. I don't think of it as a boycott, exactly — more like a "girlcott," which was another idea offered by Devra Davis. "Boycotts mean saying no. Girlcotts mean yes," Dr. Davis explained. " - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"It is not dissimilar to K-Y Jelly (glycerin, hydroxymethylcellulose, methylparaben), Astroglide (glycerin, propylene glycol, parabens), or Replens (glycerin, mineral oil, methylparaben). All of these drugstore products are designed specifically as vaginal lubricants. Although they are a bit pricier, such products are certainly worth a try. Corn Huskers is promoted as an oil-free hand treatment lotion. The manufacturer makes no claims regarding this "off-label" use. Do keep in mind that mineral oil, as found in Replens, could compromise latex condoms." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"Critical Reviews Toxicology 35: 435-58, 2005] Despite this, once women hear of the potential risk of parabens, they may become phobic about their exposure to them while remaining unaware that the production of estrogen itself in the breast during post-menopause poses a far greater risk. The point here is: women are being distracted by messages that point to estrogen-like molecules in the environment as a primary risk factor for breast cancer, when in fact these molecules are weak estrogens and pale next to the effects of hormone replacement therapy." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.) "Parabens and breast cancer... 225 Genes and breast cancer... 225 Preventive Mastectomy... 227 MAMMOGRAPHY Who's telling the truth about mammography? ... 227 Breast trauma from mammography... 231 Radiation exposure during mammography... 231 Certification of mammogram readers and imaging centers... 231 Breast self examination ... 232 Reliability of estrogen receptor tests... 232 PREVENTION Does prevention exist? ... 233 Phytoestrogen ... 233 Hormone replacement therapy ... 235 Phytoestrogens dismissed... 235 The bomb drops on hormone replacement therapy ..." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

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