Dangerous chemicals in personal care products compromise health

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Dangerous chemicals in personal care products

compromise health

Researchers are now finding that the active ingredient

in antimicrobial soaps and personal care products

causes nerve damage. This really isn't surprising:

I've been warning readers about this for years. The

ingredient is called MIT (methylisothiazolinone), and

it is found in antimicrobial soaps, hand soaps, dish

soaps and a surprising number of personal care

products. People buy these personal care products

thinking they're protecting themselves from infectious

microbes. They think it makes them immune to viruses

and bacteria that might be found in their bathrooms or

kitchens, and thus they believe in the mythology of

using antimicrobial soaps to create a sterile

environment in their own homes.

This mythology has been promoted by the manufacturers

of these products who, through clever advertising,

propagate the distortion that bacteria on the kitchen

counter and in the bathroom are responsible for making

people sick. But the reality is that we don't live in

a sterile environment anyway: the only thing that

prevents you from getting sick is a healthy immune

system. We are exposed to bacteria and viruses

literally hundreds of thousands of times each day. It

is our immune system that takes care of these threats

and keeps us safe, not antimicrobial soap.

But many consumers don't understand this. They think

that they can make their homes spotless; that they can

create a level-4 biohazard clean room in their kitchen

by using this antimicrobial soap, and that this will

somehow protect them from getting sick. But the

reality is that they're giving themselves nervous

system disorders while actually promoting the breeding

of resistant strains of bacteria. And thanks to the

nervous system damage caused by these antimicrobial

ingredients, people are probably accelerating

Alzheimer's disease by using these products. No doubt,

they are impacting the learning ability of their

children by poisoning their nervous systems, too.

It turns out that this active ingredient is chemically

similar to Agent Orange. That's right, this was the

Weapon of Mass Destruction used in Vietnam. And while

it's not accurate to say that there's Agent Orange in

your antimicrobial soap, there is indeed a chemical

compound that's similar in its function, purpose, and

molecular structure. Is this something that you want

to be coating your dishes with? How insane is that?

Yet it's precisely what millions of Americans are

doing each and every day that they use these products.

They are literally placing a thin film of nerve agent

chemicals on their dishes, and then drinking and

eating from those dishes. Here, ny, be sure to

clean up your plate! We washed 'em in something

special: nerve toxins!

There are a great number of dangerous poisons in the

average American home. The typical pantry is loaded

with toxic chemicals. This is something I've been

warning about for years, but most people just laugh it

off and say " If these things were dangerous, they

wouldn't be legal! " Yet they remain perfectly legal

and quite dangerous at the same time.

For example, most people still use dryer sheets in

their dryer. These sheets really serve no function

other than to spread perfume all over your clothing.

They're perfume sheets. And these perfumes are not

essential oils harvested from flowers out in a wild

field somewhere, they are synthetic chemicals,

manufactured in a chemical plant, and many are highly

carcinogenic. So after washing their clothes to get

out all the dirt, people are then coating their

clothes with a product that deposits a thin film of

toxic chemicals onto their clothes. In other words,

the clothes were cleaner before they went through the

washer and dryer. And now that they come out of the

dryer, they are dangerous to your health, because now

they have been soaked in a toxic chemical cocktail.

And people put these clothes on every single day, then

walk around and produce sweat which moistens the

clothes, and that accelerates the diffusion of such

chemicals into their bloodstream through their skin.

They do this and then they wonder why they are

diseased. They think their laundry is clean because it

smells like perfume.

The average American household is a toxic chemical

dump. People have antimicrobial soaps, dryer sheets

with toxic chemicals, and then there are people using

all sorts of personal perfumes and fragrance products

that are also loaded with cancer-causing chemicals.

You've got people putting deodorant in their armpits,

and that deodorant contains aluminum which promotes

dementia and Alzheimer's disease. And if that's not

enough toxicity, you can buy air fresheners that will

release a mist of toxic chemicals into the very air

that you breathe so that you can inhale carcinogenic

chemicals directly into your lungs. Beyond all that,

we have the shampoos which are also loaded with all

sorts of toxic chemicals, and we have the cleaning

products that contain solvents which directly promote

cancer as well as birth defects. And this isn't even

to mention the food supply yet, because the food

supply in the average American household contains yet

more toxic chemicals. But of course, that's for

another article altogether.

So what do you do about all of this? Some people say

to me " Mike, you sure are paranoid about all these

products. " Not really, only the ones that cause cancer

and other chronic diseases. I'm fine with all the

other products. The thing is, you can't find those

healthy products at your regular convenience store or

grocery store. You have to go to a health food store

or a natural grocer, and you have to know the sources

for these products. You have to be smart enough to

read ingredient labels and figure out what's in these

products. And then you have to educate yourself by

reading articles like this so that you know what

belongs in your body and what doesn't. It's not that

difficult to understand; it isn't rocket science to

figure out that the human body is not a toxic waste

dump (regardless of what the consumer products

companies try to convince you to believe).

The vast majority of these chemicals I'm talking about

are considered environmental hazards by the EPA. And

yet it's perfectly legal for manufacturers to put them

in their products and indirectly allow consumers to

put them into their bodies. You could be arrested if

you dumped these same chemicals into a stream -- that

would be a violation of federal law. And yet, you put

them into your body every single day, and that's not

only legal, it's actually encouraged by media

coverage, advertisements, department stores, and

retailers.

It is perfectly possible, by the way, to live a life

free of these toxic products. All you have to do is

stop buying the toxic products, throw them out, and

start buying products that actually protect your

health. You could start with your laundry detergent.

Go to the health food store, or natural grocer, and

get yourself some laundry detergent that isn't made

with all these fragrance chemicals (a good brand is

Seventh Generation).

Switch out all your soap: get rid of all that

antimicrobial soap and switch to a product like Dr.

Bronner's soap, which is only scented with natural

oils like peppermint and almond oil. It's a wonderful

soap, and I strongly recommend it. Throw out all those

ridiculous brand name shampoos that are loaded with

garbage ingredients that actually promote dandruff and

hair loss because of all the toxic chemicals they

contain. A lot of these products actually cause the

very problems they claim to be solving. Throw those

out! Go with olive oil shampoo from a company called

Heritage Products.

And throw out all those perfumes and colognes, please,

people, you are polluting the air for everyone else

who actually has olfactory senses remaining. Maybe you

can't smell yourself because your nose has been dulled

from years and years of use of these products, but I

tell you what - everybody else can smell you! And

we're tired of it. Take those products, throw them

away and try to live a day without smelling like an

artificial fragrance factory, for God's sake.

And while you're at it, throw out the antimicrobial

soap. Er, wait a minute, that might be an EPA

violation. Better call a chemical waste processing

facility and see if they can take it off your hands in

an environmentally responsible way. Just don't be

foolish enough to coat your skin with it.

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