This is a frightening list of all the chemicals in one shampoo.
Today I learnt from Dr. Walter Crinnion that if you take all these chemicals out of your life for 3 weeks, you can reduce the huge level of toxic compounds in your body. And there are 104 environmental pollutants and toxic chemicals identified in almost everything. Crickey!
Luckily he says that these chemicals have a “short half-life” meaning if you stop them, they’ll leave the body after a few weeks.
I’ve looked at food and nutrition in detail, but never at my beauty products. I’ve found out that there is mercury in makeup, lead in lipstick, arsenic in mascara, as well as cadmium, lead and nickel and let me tell you what these things do to you.
Lead – damage to brain and nervous system, headaches, anemia.
Cadminum – Toxic metal, used in batteries and as a phospate fertisliser.
Aresenic – headaches, confusion, diarraea, Vit A deficient.
Nickel – Lung, nose, laryx and proate cancer, repiratory failure.
Look at your Shampoo, moisturiser, cleanser, nail varnish and hair colouring. what are those chemicals on your bottles. Do we know what those chemicals are doing to us long-term? Dr Crinnion says they all build up in our bodies over time. A nice toxic soup of chemicals, stored around the body.
L’Oreal Elvive Colour Protect Caring Shampoo
1. Aqua/water
2. Sodium Laureth Sulfate – Creates lather, a detergent, breaks up surface tension. Dr Mercola’s says on his website that according to Judi Vance, author of Beauty to Die For, SLS can cause cellular DNA damage. In an article for ConsumerHealth.org,13 she states that a dental association in Japan tested the effects of SLS on bacteria, finding it to be mutagenic. She also states that hair follicles are significant transporters of harmful chemicals into your body. It’s also possibly cancer causing because of the chemicals that are produced when mixed with other chemicals.
3. Dimethicone – Provides smoothness, particularly in conditioners and detanglers, better comb-through. It leaves a covering on the hair strands. Also used in conditioners and moisturizers. It’s non-biodegradable, toxic to the environment.
4. Coco-bethane – Used as a foamer, an anti-static, cleansing and conditioning agent. Causes serious skin reactions, including burning and itching. According to the online natural living magazine Pure-Zing.com, its linked to blistering skin, especially in products with a lot of impurities. It can easily get into the eyes as a shampoo, which may cause significant eye irritation, according to the HERA Project, which assesses the risks of ingredients in common household products.
5. Glycol Distearate – Another foamer, reducing transparent appearance, “pearlising agent”. It’s made from ethylene glycol, which is used to make antifreeze, de-icing solutions for cars and planes, hydraulic brake fluids, lacquers, resins, wood stains, synthetic waxes, and the like.
6. Sodium Chloride – Better known as table salt. Used as a thickener in shampoos and conditioners containing sodium lauryl sulfate. It’s a contributing factor to the eye irritation experienced with most shampoos, can cause dry and itchy scalp. May cause hair loss.
7. Guar Hydroxpropltrimonium chloride – conditioning agent. Awater soluablequaternary ammonium derivative of guar gum. It’s cationic (positively charged) and works by neutralizing the negative charges on hair strands that cause static and tangling.
8. Cocamide Mipa –These, readily absorbed, ingredients may be contaminated with nitrosamines, a potent class of carcinogens. Dr. Samuel Epstein, Professor of Environmental Health at the University of Illinois found that “repeated skin applications of DEA-based detergents resulted in a major increase in the incidence of two cancers – liver and kidney cancers.” John Bailey, who oversees the cosmetic division for the FDA said the new study is especial important since “the risk equation changes significantly for children.”
9. Tocopherol – This ingredient is basically a form of vitamin E created in the laboratory, mixed with acetic acid. It’s used in the production of chemicals for photographic film, wood glue, and synthetic fibers and fabrics. Why would manufacturers mix perfectly good vitamin E with this irritating ingredient? Potentially irritating to skin, causing redness, rashes, and potential allergic reactions.
10. Sodium Benzoate – A salt derived from benzoic acid and is used as a preservative in foods and cosmetics. Professor Peter Piper a molecular biology expert at Sheffield University found that it damaged the mitochondrial DNA of yeast cells. (Mitochondria are free floating elements in each cell with multiple functions. They are associated with cell metabolism and aging). He concluded that it may do the same to human DNA.
11. Sodium Cocoate – Coconut oil and Sodium Hydroxide (lye). Lye is a caustic materialCaustic means capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue.
12. Sodium Hydroxide – Found in many industrial solvents, floor stripping, brick cleaning, cements
I’ve given up, it’s too terrifying! Will continue one day, if I have the stamina!!
13. Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate
14. Salicylic acid
15. Poly (linseed oil)
16. Benzophenone-4
17. Benzyl Alcohol
18. Benzyl Salicylate
19. Linalool
20. Alpha-Isomethyl
21. Ionone
22. Carbomer
23. Geraniol
24. Butylphenyl Methylpropional
25. Citronellol
26. Methyl Cocoate
27. Citric Acid
28. Hexylene Glycol
29. Hexyl Cinnamal
30. Perfum/Fragrance (F.I.L. C54884/4 – causes diabetes, asthma, allergies.