Poisoned by Shampoo!

. . .a slow and steady decline in health In ancient societies, a slow death by poisoning was a common fate befalling royalty; slipping a little arsenic into the king's wine every day led to a steady decline in his health until one day, voila! Regime change! Americans now pamper ourselves like royalty with all kinds of bodycare products: shampoos and conditioners, soaps, cosmetics, lotions, hand creams, eye creams, night creams, shaving creams, firmers, toners, colognes, deodorants and toothpastes. The average American uses 9 such products each and every day; a lot of people use as many as 15. Unfortunately, unless you've been unusually scrupulous in choosing products, you are, like ancient royalty, being slowly and steadily poisoned. In those 9 products, there are an average of 126 different synthetic chemicals -- not all poisons, but many toxic enough to do serious damage to your health. Toxins in bodycare products generally fall into four categories: neurotoxins, endocrine disrupters, irritants and allergens, and kidney and/or liver poisons. They've been linked with all kinds of disease, including infertility and birth defects; asthma and respiratory failure; convulsions; circulatory collapse; anemia; skin problems like acne, eczema and psoriasis; nervous system disorders like Parkinson's and ALS; chemical sensitivity; and cancer. Most people don't realize that many chemicals pass easily through the skin and tissues into the blood stream, which carries them throughout the body. We have wonderful detoxification capabilities for eliminating harmful toxins, but today there are so many synthetic chemicals coming into our bodies from air, water and food that virtually every one of us is in toxic overload. Unable to adequately process and excrete the overwhelming number of incoming toxins, our bodies store them in our tissues, especially in our fat cells. Apart from encouraging obesity, this creates a continuing and ever-growing accumulation of toxins in our bodies which interfere with normal biochemical processes and eventually produce disease and even death. Our vitality depends on making every effort to reduce the number of toxins coming in. The last thing we should be doing is lathering on bodycare products loaded with toxic chemicals!