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The ideal way to expose yourself to most toxins and carcinogens over your lifetime is to use mainstream personal care products.

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The idea that the home can be a healthy or unhealthy environment is relatively recent.  Terms such as "household toxics" and "indoor air pollution" have been coined only within the past few years as the medical and scientific communities have begun recognizing that common household chemicals can have an adverse effect on our health.

Learning about these toxic chemicals can be an odyssey of discovery that radically changes the way you live. Like most people, I always assumed that if a product was on the market, it must be safe. I've now learned that nothing could be farther from the truth.

Actually, consumer products that we all use every day are filled with toxic chemicals, many of which would require special handling if used in a chemical laboratory or in the workplace. In fact, in industry, workers are required to wear special gloves, goggles, and sometimes a respirator when using some of the exact same products found in just about every home.  We use these same chemicals at home with no protection at all and with no ventilation!

Some children are plagued with continuous state of ill health and parents often think it is normal ... or they just happen to have a  child that is sick all the time.

It should be a RED flag for parents whose children's' eyes are usually swollen, has sore throat, headaches, acute acne, depressed, lack of self-confidence, motivation and often too fatigued to follow through on activities that interest them.

These symptoms are often caused by a sensitivity to all kinds of chemicals found in everyday household products.  You may not realize it but your children are slowly being poisoned in their own home.

While certain people may be more sensitive than others, and some chemicals may bring on reactions only after many years of repeated exposure, I discovered through my research that chemicals in the home could put everyone at risk.  Cancer, birth defects, genetic changes, heart disease -- almost any symptom imaginable, both physical and psychological, has been associated with certain chemicals in common household products.  At greatest risk are fetuses, children, the elderly, and those who are already ill.

Now that you have this information, there's no need for you or your loved ones to risk the very real probability of long-term illness or fatal poisoning from these products.  In today's marketplace, there's no excuse to use toxic products, because safe, effective, affordable alternatives are available.

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There are basically three ways that toxic chemicals can enter the body: by swallowing, by breathing or by contact with the skin or eyes.  When most people hear about a chemical poisoning, they usually thin about swallowing (ingestion).  Every year, five to ten million household poisonings are reported, the immediate result of accidental ingestion of common cleaning, pesticide, personal care and other common household products.  Many of these poisonings are fatal, and most of the victims are children.

The personal care products we put on our skin and hair create possible toxic exposures through skin absorption.  These include soaps, lotions, creams, cosmetics, shampoos, deodorants, and other common products.  In 1989, a House subcommittee asked the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to analyze 2,983 chemicals used in personal care products, and 884 were found to be toxic.  Of these:

• 778 can cause acute toxicity

• 146 can cause tumors

• 218 can cause reproductive complications

• 314 can cause biological mutation

• 376 can cause skin and eye irritations

Personal care products should promote hygiene, health and beauty ... not make us sick!

Of course, I don't mean to suggest that everyone will experience health problems the first time they use a product containing toxic ingredients, although many people do.  Actually, most poisonings happen slowly, over a long period of time by gradual skin absorption or by daily exposure to toxics we breathe in the air.

People are usually surprised to learn that indoor air is generally much worse to breathe than outdoor air.  In fact, an EPA Report to Congress on Indoor Air and the subcommittee hearings on the Indoor Air Quality Act of 1989 stated that indoor air pollution is one of the nation's most important environmental health problems.  According to the EPA, most homes have airborne concentrations of hazardous chemicals that are two to five times higher indoors than outdoors.  In one five-year study, the EPA reported that a number of homes had chemical levels that were seventy times higher inside than outside!

One reason chemical concentrations are so high in some homes is that cleaning products, personal care products, and other household goods release toxic vapors into the air when they are used -- some even when they are being stored.  The next time you walk down the cleaning products aisle in the supermarket, notice how strongly it smells of toxic chemicals, even though all the packages are tightly closed.

A 1985 EPA report concluded that the toxic chemicals in household cleaners are three times more likely to cause cancer than outdoor air pollution.  Also, a report by the Consumer Product Safety Commission on chemicals commonly found in homes identified 150 that have been linked to allergies, birth defects, cancer and psychological abnormalities.  With windows sealed shut in the winter to conserve heat and save energy and in the summer to hold in cool air-conditioned air, these toxic fumes have nowhere to go and just build up to higher and higher levels.

Household cleaning products are among the most toxic substances we encounter daily.  In one study conducted over a 15-year period, women who worked at home had a 54% higher death rate from cancer than women who had jobs away from the home.  The study concluded that the increased death rate was due to daily exposure to hazardous chemicals found in ordinary household products. 

Household toxics don't just affect us, they create toxic waste in their manufacture and use, which gets disposed of in the environment in the form of air and water pollution and solid toxic waste.  Not only does this pollution come back to haunt our own health, but it also harms wildlife.

To cite only one example, the California Department of Fish and Game tested the toxicity of common chemicals that they found in the waterways.  The most toxic substances to aquatic organisms were household bleach, all-purpose cleaner, laundry detergent, and dish detergent. These were more harmful to aquatic life than other household products we think of as being more toxic, such as paint or car wax.

The natural environment makes it possible for us to live on this earth.  From it we draw everything that sustains our lives.  Without it can cannot survive.

Sources

• Shirley Camper Soman, "Let's Stop Destroying Our Children" (Hawthorn Books, 1974)

• "Accident Facts" (National safety Council, 1993)

• Joyce Schoemaker, Ph.D., & Charity Vitale, Ph.D., Healthy Homes, Healthy Kids (Island Press. 1991)

• Debra Lyn Dadd "The Nontoxic Home & office" (Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1992)

• Judith Berns "The Cosmetic Cover-up" (Human Ecologist 43 (Fall 1989)

• Nancy Sokol Green "Poisoning Our Children", (the Nobel Press, 1991)

• "Warning: Your Home May be Hazardous to Your Health," by Carolyn Ruben (EastWest Magazine 19, no.7 (July, 1989)

• Let's Stop Poisoning Our Children at http://www.rmbarry.com 

What You Can Do

#1 Educate yourselves.  Any of the books above are excellent to get started - there are many on this subject.  Visit our bookstore for other ideas.

#2 Begin to eliminate toxics from your daily life.  While cleaning and personal care products are not the only source of toxic chemicals in your home, they are among the most toxic and deadly.  Fortunately, they are also the easiest to replace.

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