Perfume, Deodorant, Etc.
About the Cosmetics
If you are buying from mainstream stores, or purchasing mainstream product lines, you are most likely buying chemicals including heavy metals. Chemicals in perfumes, and lotions stay suspended in the air for hours, and in the body indefinitely. This suspension is high toxicity.
We all heal through smell. One knows when they encounter a beautiful smell, the body just goes “Ahhhh”, and our system relaxes. And when we encounter a terrible, toxic smell our body tenses up, and we have to leave. This is our innate safety guard.
When it comes to our animals, including birds, their sense of smell is extraordinary. So extraordinary, that all our toxic application will be causing immense harm at their cellular level. Ours too, of course.
Especially if you let them lick you—this is an enormous amount of toxicity for their systems. These products are chemical soups, and are not designed to be ingested nor have they been designed with the organic carbon-based body in mind.
About Deodorant
This is one of the worst product lines on the market I feel. Full of heavy metals, and extremely damaging ingredients. One such product line which keeps coming across my path is Old Spice. This is literally burning the body, and messing with people’s systems exponentially. The animals are being heavily impacted by it via smell also. This is the ingredient list for one of the company’s products. Please understand, all these ingredients are going to the brain, and all the other organs in the body including the heart.
Old Spice Men’s Deodorant Aluminum Free Sea Spray Lasting Cologne Scent, 3.0oz
- Dipropylene Glycol
- Water
- Propylene Glycol
- Magnesium Hydroxide
- Sodium Stearate
- Poloxamine 1307
- Fragrance
- PPG-3 Myristyl Ether
- Magnesium Carbonate
- Green 6
Old Spice Pure Sport – Aluminum Free
And another product by this company which I removed from my step-dad’s cupboard. He purchased this as said “ALUMINUM FREE” on the front. Similar chemicals as the product above, most carcinogenic, with a few extra to hurt the body thrown in.
People need to start questioning – why is this on the market? One answer is – no one is questioning. Analysis | https://ireadlabelsforyou.com/old-spice-antiperspirant-safe-or-toxic/
Ingredients to Stay Away From
This is a basic list of the most lethal. This does not cover everything, but is to provide the reader a sample of what is in beauty products.
1. Butylated Hydroxy Anisole (BHA)
What It Is: An additive that preserves fats and oils in food and cosmetics
Found In: Chewing gum, snack foods, diaper creams
Health hazard: May promote cancer in lab animals
What You Should Know: BHA is hard to avoid in foods, but the government limits its levels
2. Phthalates, such as: Dibutyl and Diethylhexyl
What They Are: Chemicals that give plastic its resilience and flexibility
Found In: Toys, raincoats, shower curtains, vinyl flooring, detergents, food packaging, shampoos, labelled as “fragrance” not disclosed fully on labels
Health Hazards: Animal studies show reduced sperm counts and reproductive abnormalities; evidence of a link to liver cancer in humans
What You Should Know: Congress passed legislation in 2008 to ban six phthalates from toys and cosmetics; banned by European Nations
3. Parabens, such as: Isobutyl and Isopropyl
What They Are: Synthetic preservative
Found in: Products like moisturizers and hair care and shaving products
Health Hazards: Causes hormone disruptions, damages the reproductive system, causes cancer in animals
What You Should Know: The FDA has deemed current levels in cosmetics safe, but paraben-free products are available; banned by European Nations
4. Oxybenzone
What It Is: A chemical used in cosmetics
Found In: Sunscreens, lip balm, moisturizers
Health Hazards: Linked to hormone disruption and low-birthweight babies, nanoparticle (“micronized”) version causes DNA damage and inflammation
What You Should Know: About 97% of Americans have the compound in their urine, but current exposure levels have been deemed safe
5. Heavy Metals
What Are They: Arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury, aluminum and nickel
Found In: All cosmetics, sunscreen
Health Hazards: Damage to all the organs
What You Should Know: Look for Certified Organic products which are heavy metal free
6. Formaldehyde-Releasing Preservatives
What It Is: A chemical, includes paraformaldehyde, methylene glycol, and quaternium 15, which release the formaldehyde
Found In: “Keratin” treatments for straightening hair, creams, lotions, shaving products, eye drops for contact solutions, household cleaners
Health Hazards: Hair loss, rashes, blisters, bleeding gums, loss of sense of smell
What You Should Know: A known carcinogen; banned by European Nations
7. PFAS
What It Is: Synthetic Fluoropolymer Chemical, polyfluoroalkyls or perfluoroalkyls, also labelled as polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)
What It Is: Found In: Saving Gels, cosmetics, non-stick pans
Health Hazards: Linked to cancer, developmental problems, liver damage, immune effects, thyroid problems, and birth defects
What You Should Know: banned by European Nations
Study: Found heavily in dogs and horses, classified as one of the twenty “forever chemicals in their blood” from water bottles, food packaging; please see link below.
8. Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) C8
What It Is: Man-made compound, used to process PTFE, used to give the cosmetic a silky feel
What It Is: Found In: fire flighting foams, carpet spot removers, hydraulic fluids and cosmetics
Health Hazards: Linked to cancer, can remain in the body and environment for a long time
What You Should Know: banned by European Nations
9. P-phenylenediamine,
What It Is: Coal tar, labelled as C.I.xxxxx (5-digit number); in the US labelled as “FC&C” or “D&C”
What It Is: Found In: Hair dyes
Health Hazards: Linked to cancer, tumors, blindness
What You Should Know: banned by European Nations
Colour Additives in Cosmetics
This weblink is well worth referencing showing what is authorized to go into products:
https://cfsanappsexternal.fda.gov/scripts/fdcc/index.cfm?set=ColorAdditives&sort=Sort_Unique_ID&order=ASC&showAll=true&type=column&search=Use%2Dcurrent%C2%A4VARCHAR%C2%A4cosmetics
GRAS = Generally Regarded As Safe | These chemicals, ingredients, with this label, have not been safety tested.
Be Mindful in Organic, & Health Food Stores
Please do not assume just because the store is “promoting” a specific lifestyle that their products are in alignment with this message. The marketing is sensational, when one looks at the ingredient list on most products, all of them contain something damaging. Even I am shocked sometimes by what the package says on the front, and then lists poisonous ingredients on the back.
General Descriptions = Danger
All general descriptions on any product means “we are not telling you what the real ingredient is”. Such as the word, fragrance, natural, etc. If it is an “all encompassing” word, then this is a dumping ground for toxic substances which the company would prefer not to inform the public of. Really not cool. This is, of course, happening in all the food products too where companies list “natural flavour”.
Impact on your Animals
Your animals are designed to be in contact with everything natural, not to be exposed to all the chemical-based products we are dousing ourselves in. This is wreaking havoc on our livers, hearts, hormones, etcetera.
It is aging us, make no mistake, as anything your put on your skin reaches your heart in 40 seconds!
All chemicals are considered by the organic body to be toxic. The body does not know what they are. And when the toxic load becomes too much, what happens? Dis-ease. The body is forced into a cancerous state to protect itself.
So, my advice is to please watch what you put on your body, and stay as chemical-free as possible for you and for your animals. They will be so pleased and so will your body’s cells!
Resources
http://www.safecosmetics.org/get-the-facts/chem-of-concern/
Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal-Care Products Endanger Your Health… and What You Can Do About It by Samuel S. Epstein with Randall Fitzgerald
There’s Lead in Your Lipstick: Toxins in Our Everyday Body Care And How To Avoid Them by Gillian Deacon
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1976909_1976895_1976896,00.html
https://www.ewg.org/californiacosmetics/toxic12
https://davidsuzuki.org/queen-of-green/dirty-dozen-cosmetic-chemicals-avoid/
Meeker, J. D., Sathyanarayana, S., & Swan, S. H. (2009). Phthalates and other additives in plastics: human exposure and associated health outcomes. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 364(1526), 2097–2113. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0268
https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/programs/consultation-perfluorooctanoic-acid-pfoa-in-drinking-water/document.html
https://cosmeticsinfo.org/ingredient/polytetrafluoroethylene
https://www.barkandwhiskers.com/2023-10-25-forever-chemicals-found-in-pets-and-horses/
