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Choosing healthy cleaning products

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I have often mentioned that Rh negatives might be more likely to suffer from reactions to shampoos, conditioners, dish soaps, laundry detergents and whatever else may be used for cleaning. I’m talking from personal experience and feedback. Some of us have resorted to using simple soap, also for hair.

Choosing healthy and eco-friendly personal care and home care products caught my attention immediately and here is a quick excerpt from it:

Some chemicals pollute the environment and threaten aquatic life. Others are hazardous to our own health, be it because they cause cancer, are toxic, irritating, cause allergic reactions, accumulate in the body over time, or are endocrine disruptors potentially causing thyroid dysfunctions, diabetes or infertility.

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has developed a hazard scoring system for cosmetics and personal care products for its Skin Deep guide. I browsed through the various chemicals and ranked them based on their health hazard (10 being the most dangerous and 1 the least). Skin Deep allows users to build their own report by simply copying and pasting the list of ingredients from any cosmetic product. However I noticed that any product containing an undefined fragrance or colouring immediately gets a bad score of 8 for that sole reason.

The most toxic chemicals for health are heavy metals (arsenic, lead, mercury), parabens, phtalates, some amines (acrylamide, diethanolamine, phenylenediamine), petrochemicals (benzene, formaldehyde, toluene) and other petrol derivatives (ethylene oxide, glyoxal, methylene glycol, oxybenzone).

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5 Comments

  1. moira October 6, 2020 Reply

    i always check ingredients to ee if there are any biocides which seem to be in most cleaning products , hygiene products and many medications as well as te ones you mentioned … you can find pareben free but they are not always biocide free biocides kill anything biologicl basically . but after a bit of research you can find good natural products .. coconut oil is good used along with simple soap if you cant get hold of a really good free from evil shampoo .

    • Mike DammannAuthor October 6, 2020 Reply

      Dumb question: Why the need for shampoos and conditioners? Why not just soap?

      • Mike DammannAuthor October 6, 2020 Reply

        Same with toilet paper. Isn’t it a useless invention? Soap and water is it.

  2. moira October 6, 2020 Reply

    and of course we are what we eat

  3. Marcela October 6, 2020 Reply

    I do read your articles with interest. Thank you.
    Yes we are highly sensitive to fragrances.
    And of course sensitive to many chemicals.
    The strong household product lower our iron levels and our immune system.
    Make sure your iron levels are normal other wise
    It can trigger many allergies and other symptoms as eczema and hair loss. Best wishes.

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