Alarm Over Gender-Bender Chemical in Household Cleaning Products

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dkgrace — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:06:35 GMT

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spa — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:24:52 GMT

I use Vegie-Wash to clean my counters, bathroom sink, shower, etc. it works great!. Just spray on and wipe with a dry cloth. Makes counters shine.

Denise

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Mad_203 — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:33:29 GMT

For laundry, try Maggie's Soap Nuts. They are the dried fruit of the Chinese Soapberry tree (Sapindus mukorossi). Place two or three in the small cotton bag included, toss bag into warm water wash (or soak bag of soap nuts in hot water before adding to cold water wash). At end of laundry cycle, toss husks in compost. This product lives up to its claims! I get mine at my local health food store. Here's the web link:

www.maggiespureland.com

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jamiesamuelsmom — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:07:18 GMT

I developed a page on safe cleaning strategies for the household using Shaklee's Get Clean products. See www.squidoo.com/safecleaning. Before I was using Seventh Generation or the Next to Godliness products from Trader Joes. This works better.

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Healthnut4949 — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:42:46 GMT

Dr. Mercola mentioned "soy" above where I'd like to comment. I had a personal incident with the effects of soy. I am over 50 and therefore past menopause. 4 years later I began to flow and being concerned I naturally went to a gynocologist who did an ultrasound and discovered that the lining in my uterus was thick. She suggested a D&C and a biopsy to see if there was cancer. I said that I'd like another opinion and went to an osteopath/naturopathic doctor for my second opinion. He asked if I was consuming any soy products and I said "yes, a protein drink made with soy base". HE said quit the soy drinks for 6 months and then take the test over again. I did just that and everything was back to normal again. Soy is estrogen-like, causes estrogen effects (menses) and should be avoided! Estrogen also causes obesity anda cancer!

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Healthnut4949 — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:09:24 GMT

I got interested in toxins a few years ago. I was selling a famous home makeup parties until someone approached me about toxins and carcinogens. At first I ignored her til she approached me again, this time giving me information on carcinogens. I immedialtely started doing research on them and realized that everything that I was selling contained these toxic ingredients so I got out of it and now use toxin-free and carcinogen-free products. I absolutely love them, my toothpaste especially. My teeth feel as clean as if I just came from the Hygenist. The shampoo lasts me a whole year since it is so concentrated. My money spent actually goes further than with the store brands. I don't think I'm allowed to give the web address so if anyone is interested you will have to contact me for the address at "wanderseejr@yahoo.com".

Many people are not aware of carcinogens so I will list a few. Fluoride, Talc, DEA, TEA, Diazolidinyl urea, Imidazolidinyl urea, padimate-O, Quaternium 15 & 26, and many others. There are also food carcinogens such as Dyes, especially Red#40, Saccharin and sodium nitrate. Then there area also toxic ingredients like propylene glycol and sodium laurel sulfate (SLS) or sodium laureth sulfate (SLES) which enter your bloodstream quickly and cause damage to your liver etc. This all makes common sense to me since in the early 1900's your chance of getting cancer was 1 in 100. (unheard of in children) Today it is 1 in 2 for men and 1 in 3 for women. Only about 10% of cancers are hereditary, the other 90% are caused from the chemicals we use on our skin, which absorbs everything, and in our foods, especially the processed meats, (hot dogs, lunchmeats, bacon etc.) and Red#40 (Jello, Koolaid, Trix, etc.) How many chldren eat these foods on a daily basis?

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tio/tia — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:47:47 GMT

How interesting.....if anyone is interested in obtaining natural products and supporting your own cause and not that of your local health store or even Walmart then contact me at rrhelmke@comcast.net. Nothing against the local health store, as I do purchase from time to time, but their pricescan sometimes be on the high side. Why not support your own cause. Let me show you how.

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good2go — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:38:30 GMT

I had no idea what your average household cleaners would do to a person until last year. My younger sister who was only 46 became ill. She was hosptialized with what her doctor thought was pneumonia. She never got well. She had developed pulmonary fibrosis (scarring of the lungs) which came from using every day cleaning chemicals. She did not do professional cleaning. Her only use of chemicals were the one's you buy at the grocery store to do your daily cleaning. Upon being released from the hospital she was never able to breathe on her own without oxygen and was also put on several different medicines. The medications that were used to treat the disease created even more problems. She became diabetic and overweight from steroid therapy and then her hormone medication created a blood clot in her leg. The blood clot moved to her lung causing her death. She only lived fifteen months after finding out she had this disease. The chemicals from the cleaners created the original problem but then the prescription meds actually caused her death. In the beginning God gave us everything we needed to survive on earth. God gave us what foods we needed to eat for our health and natural healing products for if we became sick. It all boils down to how we should follow his plan and stop using all the processed food and medicines. It's very tough in this day and age because in order to save time we grab a processed item versus taking the time to do it the old fashioned way. Until we do, the final result stands to remain. We might gain a little time on a daily basis but we are loosing a tremendous amount of time from our lives and also from the lives of the ones we love! My sister's death has really made a difference in how I look at things now and also on alot of the things I buy.

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datfire — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:22:23 GMT

I found this article interesting, but for a different reason than most that posted here. Reading the report on NPE's and their effects on the body and endocrine system as "gender benders," I am just wondering if this could at least partially explain the rapid increase in the gay population over the last few decades? 250,000 less boys born in the last 30 years, mimicing the female hormone estrogen and endocrine disrupters turning off certain genes. Sound like a contributing factor at the very least. Just a thought.

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T_rex — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:01:18 GMT

It's not enough for a few of us to avoid using toxic cleaning products, as long as the vast majority continue to use them. Look at the amount of just this particular toxic chemical being produced every year : 400 million pounds ! Where is it going to go after it's marketed, purchased and used ? In the waters of rivers and lakes of course and then back to us in our tap water. We need to hold the Big Corporate Chemical Industry accountable for this insiduous on-going poisoning of planet earth.

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Erjati — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:51:23 GMT

I haven't used commercial deodorant in 25 years to avoid the chemicals and aluminum. I use high proof grain alcohol from a liquor store, such as Everclear, or even better is Spiritus Rectifcoany (Polish for Rectified Spirits) which is 96% ethanol. Pharmacy bought ethanol has toxins added, and isopropanol is itself toxic and made from petroleum so should not be put on the skin. Alum crystal stone deodorants contain Aluminum so should not be used.

For hair I use Aubrey Organics. My scalp used to itch and get "sand" in the pores from built up chems and skin cells, but after a month with organic shampoo my itches are 5% of what they were.

Coconut oil anything is very good for us and the planet. You can get coconut oil hand soap for 6$ a gallon at Smart-N-Final. I haven't tried it for house cleaning. It's okay as a shampoo, but I'm a guy with rather short hair so it does't make much difference. I prefer Aubrey's. And I use coconut oil based laundry detergent.

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amhcw — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:00:33 GMT

You can buy large bags of baking soda at Costco--real cheap! White vinegar in gallons is real cheap, too. I put the vinegar in a spritzer bottle and clean my whole bathroom with it (one has to get used to smelling vinegar for a day or so, though). I spritz my kitchen counters with vinegar, too; vinegar can destroy bacteria. I have a whole book of ways to use vinegar but i can't remember them so I started with the spritzer bottle.

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k9kray — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:16:47 GMT

I make my own olive oil soap, which contains only distilled water and olive oil. It works for body and hair and lathers like crazy. No additives. I have senstive skin and all the other commercial soaps are loaded with junk. What a difference. Never use under arm deoderants. If you have bad body odor it is a sign your system is stressed out. Use it as a baraometer of your well being, including what you eat. If you look at all the chemicals in any typical under arm deoderant, you would never use it. Take showers, relax, exercise and eat right and there is no need for underarm deoderants. If it is true that certain chemicals mimic estrogen and cause sex changes in embryos, you can begin by not buying the chemcials that cause the problem. If there is no market for these chemicals, then they stop producing them. It is simple as that.

Kitt

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nonsumdignus — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:44:59 GMT

Last I heard, these spontaneous sex changes (including changes to what scientists can only call "intersex" - an absent-in-nature YY chromosome combination) were being linked to the massive quantity of synthetic hormones excreted into our water supply courtesy hormonal birth control. I'm not a fan of hormone-disrupting synthetic cleaning products (being a vinegar and baking soda gal, myself), but the birth control just makes a little more sense to me as the source of this issue. It's not just hormone-disruption, it's actual hormones. Either way (synthetic cleaners or synthetic contraceptives), what are we doing to ourselves and our world? For what benefit?

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bagarino — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:56:33 GMT

A good and very detailed site on chemical contamination of the environment is www.ourstolenfuture.org

Re. Shampoo. I haven't used it for years! Just water every day. Things will get pretty skanky for a week or so when you stop using it - then the oils and bacteria get back into balance (they've been battling you washing it for ever) and you're left with nice glossy hair.

A.M.E - Watch Tea Tree Oil use. It is as strong an endocrine disruptor as any of the synthetics.