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  1. The Story of Cosmetics

    Toxic chemicals in commercial personal care products explained.

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  2. What's In Your Cleaning Cabinet?

    AIR FRESHENERS: Work by coating your nasal passages with an oil film and/or reduce your ability to smell odors. Often containing Formaldehyde, a highly toxic ingredient, which can irritate eyes, nose, throat, and skin. High exposure can cause nausea, headaches, nosebleeds, dizziness, memory loss and shortness of breath. They may also include Phenol, a skin irritant that can cause swelling, burning, and peeling. High doses of Phenol can also cause cold sweats, convulsions, circulatory collapse, coma, and even death. Most Air Fresheners contain artificial fragrances, which are petroleum based. ALL-PURPOSE CLEANERS: often contains Propylene Glycol, a chemical that can cause nausea, convulsions, slurred speech, disorientation, and heart and kidney problems if ingested. Ninety percent contain Sodium Laurel (Laureth) Sulfate. Some all-purpose cleaners may contain Sodium Hydroxide (Lye), also found in drain cleaners, stain removers,
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  3. INGREDIENTS IN 20 DIFFERENT COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS.

    The following is the ingredients listing form variety of commercially produced products.

    Aveeno "active naturals" Lotion

    Water, glycerin, emulsifying wax, ethylhexyl isonananoate, glycine soja (soybean) flour, propylene glycol isoceteth-3 acetate, dimethicone, cyclomethicone, polyacrylamide, stearic acid, phenoxyethanol, C13-14 isoparaffin, dimethicone copolyol, benzyl alcohol, fragrance, DMDM hydantoin, glyceryl laurate, laureth-7, methylparaben, cetearyl alcohol, disodium EDTA, butylparaben, ethylparaben, propylparaben, isobutylparaben, iodopropynyl butylcaarbamate, glycine soja (soybean) seed extract, panthenyl ethyl ether, tocopheryl aetate, panthenol, BHT. May also contain sodium hydroxide, citric acid.

    Aveeno "active naturals" Stress Relief Body Wash

    Water glycerin, cocamidopropyl betaine,
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  4. The Antibiotics Crisis

    There is conclusive evidence on the destructive consequences of the over use of antibiotics. Antibiotic pressure on an organism can be a cofactor in immune deficiency conditions. Antibiotics were originally prescribed to fight bacterial diseases. Once these drugs became major moneymakers, their marketing took on a life of their own. Unaware of the link to mass destruction of their immune system, an unsuspecting generation has upped its antibiotic intake through over-use (orally), through use in skin cleansing products, and ingestion through meat and poultry. This has created a potentially greater problem of the seemingly unstoppable advance of resistant bacteria. Bacteria, resistant to most or all of the known antibiotics, are menacing hospitals and their patients. Because essential oils are not patentable and profit expectations are zero, there is no corporate sponsorship and therefore there is hardly any current scientific exploration. Essential oils are no longer researched at

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  5. What's That?

    PERSONAL CARE TOXINS : A PARTIAL LIST

    Of the more than 15,000 chemicals found in personal care products, 60% are considered toxic. Here is a list of the ones you will find most often, and why you should avoid using them. Of course, none of these are ever used in Healing-Scents.com Toxin-Free products. While this list may seem extensive, and boring, we want you to know that use of any of the chemical agents listed below can have severe adverse effects on your skin. The FDA allows these ingredients, which are by and large very inexpensive, to be used in small quantities. The problem is that most of them have cumulative effects–they add together as you continue to use them. Topping it all off, imagine this–if ONE of these is bad for you; imagine what they do in COMBINATION with each other. We are convinced they make a TOXIC SOUP, and hope you will learn to avoid every one of them.
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