Anti-Aging Choices and Healthy Lifestyles

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I don't know about you but I am really looking forward to Spring this year.  Today it was 55 and sunny in Illinois and the forecast is for 70 next week.  I can't wait!  I know it is only March and I am sure she has a few more surprises for us but I can see the light at the end of the rainbow :-))

This month's newsletter is going to be a little different. If you have read information on my website, you know I am very passionate about getting the word out about the harmful ingredients in products that we use everyday especially personal care products such as shampoos, toothpaste, lotions, bath/shower gels, baby products and household cleaning products, etc.

This month I would like to share a testimonial from a website visitors.  After you have read it, think about it, has a similar thing happened to you and did you ignore it?

This is the message I received from Kelly:

Hi again.  Would you like to know my story in more detail?  Well, here it goes:

For about 6 years of my life, I always seemed to go through periods of emotional edginess.  My family and I had tried to figure it out for all that time.  Every time I thought I came to a conclusion, I ended up wrong.  It wasn't an all the time feeling, but I would go through day to week to month periods of it.  Some were even more than a month.  Things that I would normally just let roll off my back would cause me distress and make me snap.  I would find my thoughts jumping from one to another rapidly.  I tried to take control of it.  Sometimes it got really bad, however, I did not want to see a doctor about it because I didn't think it was anything that a doctor could fix without medicine and I am against psychiatric drugs.  I figured I could talk to my family and friends, and yes this did help a lot.  For a while I thought I was bipolar because I would go through happy and unhappy periods.  But then I realized that I never actually got "depressed."  It was more like anxiety-nervous, edgy, irritable and jumpy. 

One day, recently, I had a wonderful morning.  I had one class at college that day and it was cancelled.  I came home in a normal state.  My mom was just about to take my grandma to the drug store to pick up a prescription and asked if I would come along.  I said "sure".  Before we left, I put on a bunch of hand sanitizer.  Then I went into the bathroom and used my acne stuff.  I was a little leery of it because it seemed that every time I used the acne stuff, I would get irritable.  I thought it was only a superstition so I used it anyway. 

Not even a minute later, I began to feel myself get hyper.  The acne stuff always did make my skin a little reddish and dry, but I thought that was normal.  (either that or I left it on too long.)  We got into the car and all of a sudden, I snapped at something my grandma said and after we parked, I ran across the street crying.

When we got home, I went into the bathroom and cried.  I was saying "Its that stuff!  I swear, its that stuff!".  Still thinking it was a superstition.  My mom walked past the bathroom and heard me say that.  She then asked "What stuff?"  I wasn't going to tell anyone about my superstition, but at that time I had to.  I got out and told her about it.  Then it suddenly popped into my head.  I could have an allergy to that stuff! 

Then it all cleared up like fog lifting from a valley!  I recalled that whenever I went into one of those states, I switched shampoo or lotion or hand sanitizer.  I remembered the worst emotional time of my life-winter 2001.  During that time, I was always using these lotion sprays.  I had about 5 different scents.  I used them more than 3 times a day and realized I was even inhaling them, since they were a spray.  I finally got to the point where I could associate specific products with specific times that I was in an anxious state. 

So I decided I would look at the ingredients too compare and see which one was in all the ones that affected me and which was not in the ones that didn't.  Not even 5 minutes into analyzing, I found that propylene glycol was in all of them and NOT the ones that had no effect!  I had never heard of PG!  Not even 10 minutes later, my aunt called to give my dad and me free plane tickets to Arizona next winter.  My aunt is a doctor.  I asked her if something in lotions, perfume and skin products could cause anxiety.  She said that it could not be a direct correlation, but that it could certainly be an allergy.  We talked about it for a while.  My family is known to have allergies!  I used to have Asthma, but grew out of it.  I immediately looked up propylene glycol on google and at the bottom it said "also try propylene glycol allergy."  It was all skin (rashes and stuff)

Yeah, ok, I didn't really have a skin reaction from it...or did I?

I had been getting this rash for years and years-so long that I got so used to it to the point where I didn't even think about it when I heard the word "allergy."  I was about to wash my hair one day and just had a hunch to look at the label on the shampoo and conditioner.  Sure enough, propylene glycol!  The bell rang again!  Every time in the shower, when I used that shampoo and conditioner, my neck and shoulders would itch like crazy and I would come out of the shower with red puffiness.  That didn't happen when I used my mom's shampoo and conditioner and it did NOT have PG!  I always noticed that I would often get a rash wherever my hair touched my skin!  My best friend recently noted that I tend to itch my neck a lot.  I recalled itching my neck a lot while writing songs.  It got disturbing.  The lotion sprays did cause me to itch a little and  creams (with PG, of course) itched and burned so bad that I stopped using it! 

Turns out propylene glycol was the 2nd listed ingredient in the lotion sprays (worst emotional time of my life) and also, there was another type of propylene glycol listed directly after. 

I am not the only one affected by the damn stuff!  I was talking with my friend at school today.  I knew that she broke out from certain lotions.  The new lotion she bought was propylene glycol free and she was fine!  I described all my symptoms to her (the rash from my hair, the shower thing and even the emotional stuff).  SHE AGREED WITH EVERYTHING! 

Propylene glycol may be the cause of many allergies and even anxiety for more people than we think!  I have seriously considered doing a survey and even my own little study on myself, my friends and anyone who may agree to one.  We think we know the cause of a lot of things, but really do we?  If we thought that Childbirth Fever was a punishment from God and found out later that it was microorganisms, then we can't say for sure that we know the cause of all psychological disorders!  My aunt said that there can be neurological allergies too!  Of course, that only makes sense!  You body can react to anything in many ways!  Mine obviously says "GET OUT!"  to propylene glycol! 

Thank you for reading!  I know it was long, but I think it was worth it!  It's just another added comment to your opinion.  I think its good to know that someone is really on your side.  I felt that way when I saw your website and I hope you can feel the same about my e mails! 
Reply soon,
Kelly

Does a member of your family experience any of the symptoms that Kelly was experiencing or symptoms where there doesn't seem to be a explanation?  Check the labels on your shampoo, conditioners, hair spray, toothpaste, mouthwash, lotions, bubble bath, deodorants, cosmetics, moisturizers, bath/shower gels, hand soaps, household cleaners, dish soaps, laundry soaps, bath/shower cleaners, glass cleaners, etc.  Is there a common ingredient.  Do your own experiment.  Eliminate the products that you think may be causing the problem and see if the symptoms will subside.

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