. . .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…