Children's bath products tainted with probable carcinogens

Is there a list anywhere of products that are totally safe for kids? Thanks!

This is horrifying to me. I spend a lot of extra money on buying the products that are supposed to be better for kids like Earth's Best. I also am only using non-toxic paint when I paint now. Obviously the kids are still getting exposed to a barage of other toxins but I am trying to cut it down by also using non-toxic cleaning supplies. Think about how gross spraying your table with Fantastic Spray is.. you are eating chemicals every time you put your fork on the table, yuck!

Have to love how our government protects us from being poisoned by these companies. The article as printed is incomplete. You should include some information on the products that did not contain these toxins so we can protect our children.

Please understand that toxicity is all a matter of concentration.

The politicians who declared that any measurable amount of the hazardous substance as dangerous instead of asking for proof that a specific dose is dangerous were ignorant, and created a damaging standard.

While you go and buy the "natural" products, keep in mind that if the same regulations applied to man-made chemicals were applied to the natural products, they would fail.

For example, apples contain benzene, a well-known carcinogen. Do we stop eating apples ? By the standard described in the article, we should. In reality, you would have to eat a staggering amount of apples for the dose of benzene to be harmful, but this common sense approach was ignored by politicians trying to one-up each other in being "tough on pollution".

As a result, you have a system that harms the people it is pretending to protect by applying extremely different standards to products depending on whether they are man-made or not, and steering people towards more dangerous products instead.

The tainted products listed are manufactured by reputable companies - or at least the naming rights have been sold by reputable companies. Nothing that we buy is really safe, is it? We can blame the federal govenment in part for this, but if we ask for more oversight and tougher regulations, we have to be willing to fund enforcement. And the business lobbyists will come out in droves to protest. It's a no-win situation, with our kids bearing the brunt of it.

Prosecute all the CEO's and anyoe else involved for reckless disregard and endangerment of children. At worst, the co's will settle and the state will get millions to relieve the tax deficeit.

So . . . what are we supposed to do about this? Is there a list of non-offending products posted somewhere that the "Campaign for Safe Cosmetics" thinks is truly safe?

Mom of Twins:

I highly recommend cosmeticsdatabase.org. Great resource to find out about what products are safe, with a whole section on baby items.

I've found the Skin Deep Cosmetics Database to be helpful in finding safer alternative products. . .you can find it, the toxic tub report and info on how to protect your family and also let our leaders know we want this problem fixed at www.safecosmetics.org.

I've found the Skin Deep Cosmetics Database to be helpful in finding safer alternative products. . .you can find it, the toxic tub report and info on how to protect your family and also let our leaders know we want this problem fixed at www.safecosmetics.org.

Why does this happen? Who thinks its a good idea to put formaldehyde in the products we use?

I've found the Skin Deep Cosmetics Database to be helpful in finding safer alternative products. . .you can find it, the toxic tub report and info on how to protect your family and also let our leaders know we want this problem fixed at www.safecosmetics.org.

to mom of twins;
go to Skin Deep at www.cosmeticsdatabase.com - you can check the various products and see what's in them that's not specified on the label
good luck

I agree, thank you for informing us about the hazards with these products....but could we please get a listing(s) of the products that are safe for our children? I am a first time dad and I try to take every precaution with what goes into and on the surface of my daughter....a product safe list would be very helpful. I know not everything in this world is 100% safe for everyone, but with this reported issue, more info would be greatly appreciated.

Lax label laws - THAT's the problem

A lax Consumer Product Safety Commission THAT's the problem.

That's the source of these types of problems and where citizens and consumers need to DEMAND a change!

It costs a fortune, but California Baby is the safest product out there.

Calling Deirdre Imus. Calling Deirdre Imus...

Finding safer products to buy is a good and important first step but it's not ultimately going to solve the problem. Don't stop there! You should be able to walk into a store and feel confident that the products are safe! Here in Massachusetts there is a state law proposed that would create a program to replace toxic chemicals with safer alternatives (in many types of products, not just personal care products). It's called the Safer Alternatives Bill (H757 & S442). You can make a big difference by contacting your legislators and asking them to make it a priority to pass this bill this session. Unfortunately we can't shop our way out of this but we can ultimately get to the bottom of the problem as citizens.

UPDATE: URGENT:

"somehow we all survived childhood." Stop worrying about everything that could possibly hurt your kids. When your little angel grows up, and starts drinking and smoking (and whatever else adults do, Ahemm, it rhymes with "Unprotected T-Rex" ), your precious little angel will survive that too.

Before all of the "i know whats best for everyone else's kid" parents chime in, consider how much the people feeding you all of these scare-tactics have to gain from you reading the story, and telling 15 of your girlfriends how rubber duckies murder babies. Personally, i'd be a little more concerned with "day-care raising baby motzart", "mommy loves shopping more than she loves daddy", and my personal favorite "Daddy has a special secret friend, who's half mommys age.. she's blonde, blue and stacked"... what?, nah, just forget i said that one... my point is... relax. your kid is fine.

I am a mom of two children and this totally scares me to think that when you try to take care of your kids, and try to get the best for them to think that you are secretly hurting them. And you do not even know that you are doing it. What can we bath our children with, there should be a list of what we should use. I am so scared now to think that you are bathing your children in something that is secretly hurting them. Someone please give us a list, help our children.

Water alone is enough to clean very young babies - they don't need all of those products. They don't get very dirty until they are crawling. Ask your pediatrician - they will confirm.

I used mostly plain water when my baby was little - no need for lotions b/c there isn't soap to dry out the skin. I occasionally used a 100% olive oil soap bar - I use that more frequently now that she is older.
We don't have any issues w/rashes, ect. I use the olive oil soap bar on my older child as well. Check with your pediatrician!

The Internet and printed media are filled with sensational information regarding toxic or hormone mitigating contents in kids' shampoos and body washes. I've spent hours searching for suggestions for alternative products that are pure and healthy. There are none. Maybe this could be your next article?

And those nameless faceless pesky terrorists are the real threat ?

no, I'd say complete greed.

I'll never buy a JNJ product again.

I hope their stock turns to dust by end of 2009.

While Johnson and Johnson LOBBIES for these laws ?

of COURSE they follow the laws

there ARE no laws - they LOBBIED to make that so.

EVIL

Worst ill I could wish on JNJ is for them to use their products themselves.

HBX,

What a fine person you are...more concerned about someone's wealth than our children's health.

I have a solution for such as you. Lets think outside the of box for once and get creative. I have a few solutions that will cover the cost.

1. Automatically ban anything banned in Japan or Canada, or Europe. They care about their kids and their citizens more than executive bonus that runs in the millions. We will not have to pay government workers engaged in the industries
"catch me if you can" game. Issue the command that these items are to be stopped immediately. Companies can come back with any proof that it is not so...or remove the products from the market. If they fail to comply and it become known, let any prosecutor in the country cart them off the jail. It piggy backs off the regulations of other countries and saves us money. We don't have to spend a penny more...may even cost less, because prosecutors could earn their stripes by sending them to jail

2. Make an automatic prison term available for the top executive who is found to have a cancer causing chemical in his/her product that was banned in another country. That should stop the nonsense

3. Monitor the chemical companies providing ingredients to these clowns and forget about trying to monitor the other products. It you stop it at the source, you will not have to spend money stopping it down stream. Give automatic ten year sentences for anyone caught trying to peddle these cancer causing chemicals

4. Why not let the private sector do as they did with this study. They found the offending chemicals in the baby products. Now make it a law that any group has the right to publish the results and then the company has a week to respond with proof that it isn't so...or ten years in prison for the guy getting the millions in bonus payments

Shall I go on...I am sure I can think of many more that will relieve you of your concern for the cost of regulation.

All these chemicals are killing people. It's called cancer. Maybe not today or tomorrow but eventual it will get you.

Our government has never protected us and never will. Its all about Corporate America and their lobbyists. It will never change....

This is the tip of the iceberg, folks. I'm allergic to formaldehyde and have a terrible time finding products I can safely use. Laundry detergents are a huge offender (even 7th generation contains formaldehyde releasing preservatives). Free and clear? Not so much. They all release formaldehyde, too. With a lot of detergents you have to send a doctor's note to the customer service department to get them to own up to their ingredients! In their defense, Seventh Generation was pretty up front about it. I have to travel with my own sheets because one night in a hotel can cause a reaction for me. Cosmetics - loaded with formaldehyde. New clothes? I have to shower within an hour of trying anything on. Liquid soaps all contain formaldehyde preservatives, too. It's ridiculous. My advice to anyone who is concerned is to learn the chemical names most responsible for formaldehyde release (Quaternium 15, DMDMHydantoin, Imidazolidinyl urea, diazolidinyl urea among others). And check labels. I'm glad people are starting to learn about this it has been frightening me for years!

I am very grateful that my children do not use any of those shampoo's or soaps. It is really bad that they go on the shelves anyways and the stores sell them.

Ivory soap, vaseline petroleum jelly, and cornstarch instead of baby powder.

Problem solved.

scary.......

I just want to make one point about the cosmetics database website. It is not kept up to date. I am a consultant for Arbonne, we make pure safe beneficial skincare and cosmetics products that are botanically based, contain no chemical fragrances or dyes, and are phthalate and paraben free. I'm not going to go into too much detail, as I'm not here to plug my business. However, I have to mention that the cosmetics database lists several Arbonne products which have not been produced in years, and they do not have the current formulations listed of what is now available. So, I think the database is a great idea in theory, but until they get a better handle on keeping it up to date, I would not put too much faith in it.

Has anyone asked who funds the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow? Of course they are going to come up with "bad" reports. It's self serving. The more "bad" things that they come up with, the more funding they will receive.

Here's a newsflash: The sun emits radiation, which is also a carcinogen. Are you going to keep your kids in a dark room so they literally don't see the light of day? What about putting on oxygen masks for when they go outside to play because they might breathe the exhaust filled air from all of the cars in the world?

To everyone freaking out about this report: Get a grip.

You might be shocked to learn that these baby products contain large amounts of Dihydrogen Monoxide, a known poison. More people die each year from inhalation of Dihydrogen Monoxide than from gunshots. Spookidy.

This is really scary. I am glad that I have bought as much organic/eco products for my baby and toddler as I could. Even little one's can get infections from the bath. I get my bath stuff for my kids at www.healthybodyhappyearth.com, I think they carry some really good products.

Isn't everything a potential carcinogen?

Less baths, less showers, less junk, less clothing = less cancer.

We are a society of more. More always comes with a price.

The price is waste and disease.

It's true, we survived. So far. I grew up in the 70's breathing the fumes of leaded gas, eating unwashed produce coated with pesticides, probably spent my early childhood sucking lead paint off my fingers. Yes, I survived. I even survived a bout with skin cancer, having been exposed to too much sun as a kid.

But I think we can do better than just hope to survive all the toxins we surround ourselves with.

I agree w/ the Arbonne rep as I am one myself. I've noticed the outdated products posted on the skindeep website as well.
Also to the comment about Vaseline (Petroleum jelly is a petro chemical) You are putting a form of that into your car to make it run! Another bad ingredient Mineral Oil-there are 90 something names for it so beware but it's like wrapping your skin in saran wrap, doesn't let you release the toxins that need to come out or let your skin 'breathe'. And what about animal products/by-products? Have you looked up 'rendering plants'? Do people know what they are slathering on themselves? Google it and you will see. It's very scary and disturbing !!! Arbonne does not contain any of these ingredients and is Pure, Safe, Botanically- based Swiss skincare.

"Ivory soap, vaseline petroleum jelly, and cornstarch instead of baby powder. Problem solved."

#30: What are you basing this on? Vaseline is made from PETROLEUM. Yum, that's just what I want to rub all over my baby's skin. Ivory soap has fragrance in it, which can be irritating for babies' skin.

I echo the advice of talking to your pediatrician. Also, don't be fooled by a product just because it says "natural" -- many of these still have parabens, etc., you have to check the ingredients.

This is a poorly written article, but very disturbing too. There's no information on safe products, or links to safe alternatives. The information is broken up and then referred to by, "see above, see below, see this website". It's a crap article.

Why is the Globe almost out of business again?

Arbonne is nice but it costs a fortune. How about a product for average working families??? Why should safety be something you can get only if you can afford it??

I use Dr Bronner's soaps, it might be worth checking with your pediatrician. I use the lavender for dog baths and I add essential oils to the baby mild to make my own shower gel and shampoo. There are also a bunch of websites with instructions to make your own laundry detergent for those with sensitive skin.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Washington where half truths and outright distortions pass for facts! This report by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is yet another example of how activist groups distort science to advance their agenda. The CSC report simply does not hold up! They make it sound like Europe has banned dioxane. European law allows trace levels of dioxane and the levels reported are trace by all measures (check it out if you don't believe). The very small amounts of formaldehyde are released from preservatives to make sure they're safe (think peanut butter) and the levels are within European standards. The report is full of errors and distortions.

All these companies will testify that their products are safe, that the carcinogens present are at "negligible" doses and they have not been shown to cause cancer at the low dose in children. But is there a "safe" dose for these carcinogens?! Think about it: we get pesticides in our foods, carcinogens in bath products, carcinogens in our water, plasticizers in bottles, teflon everywehere else, leaching plasticizers that end up in breast milk somehow, lead in toys, fumes in paints, and insecticides sprayed on the lawns the kids play in. Every single company will say that their products are safe. But are they really when you add everything up?

As a mother of a 16-year old who has TWICE had to undergo removal of scalp tissue to have it biopsied ... this is despicable. I wish 16 years ago someone had warned me about these products, particularly JNJ. We have no history of cancer in our family and she has dark hair - so why now is she getting brown patches on her scalp that have to be biopsied?

is anyone really surprised? modern society is a disease. visit corrupt dot org.

If you think that the presence of these trace levels of carcinogens is reason for alarm in the U.S., how would you react to the fact that Johnson & Johnson is regularly making tons and tons of baby powder in India with ethylene oxide, a deadly CONFIRMED carcinogen, and releasing into the marketplace even without testing? Because, as Johnson & Johnson's press release says: "...our products meet or exceed the regulatory requirements in every country where they are sold..."? Even in India, the local FDA prohibits addition of ethylene oxide to baby products. Or, is it because India is a country of slumdogs?

If you're worried, just use Burt's Bees products.

From what I've read, much of the issue is cumulative... i.e. exposure to multiple toxins from multiple products, over time. I've also read that many of the "natural" ingredients haven't been tested rigorously so you can't assume none of those will present a problem (for example, I've tried some natural laundry detergents that gave my husband such an allergic reaction from clothing and sheets that he required medical attention -- I think it had something to do with citrus-based ingredients). So a moderate approach is probably the most appropriate one... write to your politicians asking them to push for more regulation, testing, and disclosure in the industry; check out the skin deep database; visit your natural food/product stores and try some of the products that have the fewest ingredients and no known issues with their ingredients. One company that really minimizes their ingredients is Plum Island Soap Company in MA, so be sure to check out their products, and I also like Sweet Grass Farm in NH, especially their laundry products and lotions. This doesn't necessarily refer to either of the two companies I've mentioned here, but just be aware that even the companies putting out "healthier" products may also include other ingredients not considered to be healthy in certain products, like certain artificial colors or other things that help them sell certain items, and in some of these cases the company doesn't have a better substitute and everyone needs to make money to stay afloat! Also, there can be a price for "healthier" ingredients, namely products that may not be as pretty (for eg., labels and packaging), as fun (for eg., brightly colored bath things for kids) as functional (for eg., natural deodorant that doesn't stop perspiration), or as inexpensive as the mass-produced products from the giant companies. But I personally like the delicate (or absent) scents and natural colors of the more natural products, and after trying lots of options have found some that work really well... and occasionally I may use the less "healthy" products when I really need to.

JNJ is a BAD, BAD company. You should not buy their products. Their spokepeople tell lies to the press. Their website has no mention of this scandal, because they think if they don't talk about it it's not a problem.

I believe a complete Boycott of Johnson & Johnson is in order.

Anyone with me on this??

in the end we are all dead anyway. We can give up shampoo, but we can't give up air. There really is no way to avoid harmful pollutants.

if u go on cosmeticsdatabase.org (Skin Deep) and search a bunch of products, they all seem to be rather harmful. However, the most important chart to look at is the one showing data gaps (the pie chart). Most of the ingredients have a huge data gap - in other words, it is inconclusive if they are harmful or not.
The website classifies any product that may possible be potentially toxic..but which has not been studied enough, as toxic. This is misleading.

Dihydrogen Monoxide is water. H2O.... Not a toxin... OldPoorRichard thinks he's funny.

Go to cosmeticdatabase.com as a start for cosmetics, soaps, shampoos and etc. This is a third party website that does extensive research into ingredients in each product.

Many shampoos, soaps and cleaning solutions can be made cheaply and safely with just a few household items. For instance - chickpea flour and dry milk - excellent soap for all skin types.

This overraction is nonsense. Everything in the world is potentially harmful to you. I wonder how many of you people crying foul have science degrees or even understand basic science concepts. This is the very type of overreaction that will cause Congress to end up passing some absurd bill like the one on lead which is now forcing libraries to consider banning children from -- borrowing children's books!!! Right, because who's ever heard of a child getting lead poisoning from a book. The moderator is censoring me from posting a link as proof, so do a google search with the words: childen's books lead rule -- then read the first entry.

To ALL who have precipitously assassinated Johnson & Johnson over this issue . . there is no finer company from a product quality, process control or concern for its customers. Many companies have slogans and logos but don't walk the talk . . at J & J the CUSTOMER is the number one priority and they live it daily. I know - I worked ther for many years. It takes precedence over profits, stock price , shareholder value etc. . .Boycott? I don't think so!!!

Make your own soap and lotion! Then you know exactly what goes into it. It's relatively easy to make

As a Behavioral Biologists who has studied Neurodevelopmental diseases in kids for 15 years I have been inundated by the effects of toxic chemicals in changing infant/child brain chemistry. Therefore, as a mother of two, I buy nothing but Arbonne's Baby Care line for my kids. For those that posted it's "too expensive" I can't think of any better way to spend my money than to protect my children.

Believe it or not, there is a wonderful place to get safe, better, eco-friendly products delivered to your door factory direct at wholesale prices!

We use Mustela, which has worked v well for us and is a European based product.

How many posters on this very board were bathed in these baby products for years? And how many of you have been exposed to these very products while caring for children (so you're getting double or triple the exposure of your child?)

Are you all alive and mostly healthy? Then calm down!

Remember, CHINA is the one launching this "investigation." China, who hangs chicken cages over shrimp farms so the shrimp can eat the chicken feces. China, who taints milk with melamine that kills babies. China, that dilutes toothpaste with antifreeze.

Before I hear another person say that "natural" is better, I'd like you all to go look up the Periodic Table of Elements and tell me how many of those natural things you'd like to eat. Lead, uranium, and mercury are all "natural." So are feces, the AIDS virus, and E. Coli. I'd take some 1,4 dioxane over those any day!

The Cosmetics and Personal Care industry hasn't been regulated since 1936. There are many studies published that list the carcinogens/mutagens in shampoos, skin lotions, shampoos, baby powders, etc. That said, it is SO easy, inexpensive and rewarding to make your own products out of natural ingredients. Somebody commented that we've all survived and shouldn't panic: have you noticed the rise in cancer, immune disorders and childhood allergies since we've been using mass-produced, plastic-enshrouded products? If you wouldn't eat it, you shouldn't put it on your skin. It's easy to eliminate the toxins in your household, you just have to want to do it.

ATTENTION: If you have a diet soda at your desk right now, or a coffee sweetened with Equal or Nutrisweet, then you, yes YOU, have a dangerous chemical substance right in front of you - Aspartame. Aspartame, after consumption, breaks down into substances such as methanol and formaldehyde - EXTREMELY toxic chemicals that are even considered dangerous for industrial usage. Where's the outrage over that? Thought so.

# 34 Poor Richard, I heart you.

i'm just reading questions, i'm a mother and i want to know which is the substitution of the johnson baby which is safe please reply

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this is all so stupid. These baby products are perfectly safe and all this publicity has simply clouded the difference between these perfectly fine products and really and truly dangerous products. The Chinese are now very happy to have an excuse to look at J&J baby products as if there is any comparison between their milk scandal and these products. Americans cry wolf too often. Bath your baby in 100% soap and see what happens to their skin-you wash your kid only in water?-are you kidding? These scares serve only to divert us from real problems

"All substances are poisons. There is none that is not a poison.
It is the right dose that differentiates a poison from a remedy."
Paracelsus (1493-1541 AD). I agree that the gov't. agencies need to take a serious look at this especially because the products are for babies. But HBX has a point. For some of the products, the amounts were found to be too high and the companies involved should be notified for recall. For other products, there should be a reference for the amounts found vs. maximum allowable amounts (for babies) before any conclusions can be drawn.
Natural products are less likely to cause problems only if humans have been exposed to them over the years and evolved mechansism (enzymes, etc) to deal with them. We have not yet for some of them as listed by AP

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Melissa,
I won't use Arbonne because it's ridiculously expensive and I could better put that money to use to buy our daughter food. You see, I believe that FOOD is the best choice for protecting the health of my child and the food she ingests should be of the best quality I can find. Lack of proper nutrition or malnutrition has been scientifically proven to be far more detrimental to overall health and early childhood development. Of course, she's exposed to toxins every day, being a city baby. Trucks and diesel fumes...god knows what in the yard where she plays, on the Boston Commons where she runs around exploring everything...

We use green cleaning agents, I do, in fact, make a great deal of her food to avoid preservatives altogether when I can. We use gentle soap and rarely use lotion as she doesn't have an issue with dry skin...and she doesn't get bathed every single day either.

But insinuating that somehow paying the price for a gentler baby product makes you superior to those parents who opt not to pay a fortune for a product that may or may not make any difference at all is absolutely pretentious. I hope to never meet you on the playground - although I shouldn't worry. Playgrounds are full of hazards to growing children. Best to just pay to pad a room than get them outside and running around and occasionally kiss a skinned knee for free.

melaleuca.com has non-toxic products for cleaning people, homes, laundry etc... as well as other health related products

Beth, thank you for the great post. It's sad but it's very true that most products in the market are manufactured with full of synthetic chemicals, which slowly builds up in our system and just like with tobacco, some people end up becoming gravely ill, while others are not effected at all. I read some of the comments above, and the fact is that companies putting products full of chemicals on the market with one goal in mind... to manufacture very cheaply and make big profits with no consideration to your health or the environment. Our body is made of natural cells, why would you want to ingest pesticides, surround yourself with synthetic chemicals especially on a baby. Synthetic chemical are cheap to make just check your shampoo bottle

Perfectly Natural

For those of you who say you survived these products, unfortunately, you don't know that yet. Cancer may still hit you, or me, or anyone.
In small amounts, you may not be harmed, but if you use one product after another, it can add up. Why not have labels on products that list the ingredient and the amount in the product. Then we can educate people to what is an acceptable amount to use everyday, like we do with nutrition labels. Then we can make our own choices, and if people chose not to use certain products, well that will motivate manufacturers to change them. Isn't that how it should work. Disguise and sell doesn't seem right.

So, if carcinogens are bad, do I have to stop giving my baby cigarettes? She gets really cranky when she doesn't have her morning smoke...

For those of you who have vaccinated your children with common childhood vaccines like the flu shot, polio vaccine and DTaP vaccine, you have had your children injected with formaldehyde as they are contained in these vaccines. I think all of it is alarming but I would worry less about using it topical than having it systemic in your infant/toddler.

I TRY TO KEEP MY KIDS SAFE FROM EVERYTHING THAT IS HARMFUL
I WAS BUYING BABY WASH BUT NOW IM NOT I AM UPSET AND CONCERNED FOR MY KIDS AND WHAT THE GOVERMENT HAS BEEN PUTTING ON THE SHELFS ESPECILLY FOR BABIES AND CHILDREN I THOUGHT THAT BABY AND CHILDREN SUPPLIES WAS SAFE IT SHOULD BE SAFE INSTEAD THEY PUT FORMALDEHYDE BOMBING FLUID THAT THE FUNERAL HOMES PUT IN DEAD PEOPLE THAT IS JUST WRONG !!! I AM SO UPSET AND ANGRY THAT I HAVE A LOST FOR WORDS BUT 1 MORE THING THEY HAVE LOST ME AS A CUSTOMER

I AM WRITING AGAIN TO SAY THAT SOMEONE SHOLD GIVE US A LIST OF THINGS THAT WE CAN USE THAT IS SAFE NOT HARMFUL
BUT EVEN IF SOMEONE GIVES ME A LIST I WOULDNT EVEN BOTHER TO LOOK AT IT BECAUSE I CANT TRUST IN THE GOVERMENT TO BE SAFE WITH MY CHILDREN

#76: QUIT YELLING!!!!

#75: SO you would rather have your kids contract measles/mumps/rubella/polio instead of toxins that they get exposed to on a regular basis? That sounds just as 'healthy'

#59: Like Number 70 said: you are pretentious and naive. I spend money on keeping my kids FED and SHELTERED. Anything less would be irresponsible of me as a parent. Yes there are dangers all around, We made this mess we have to live with the consequences. No $150.00 cream will make up for that.

After coming to the realization of how over 85% of all cancers are caused by household items we use on a daily basis, including soaps, lotions, deodorants, shampoos, detergents, cleaning agents, etc., I've been making a switch to Melaleuca. Instead of pouring money into these toxic everyday products at Wal-Mart, I'm buying straight from the manufacturer with guaranteed kosher, all-natural products that are safe for me and my family, and I'm actually saving more money. I just started making the switch a couple weeks ago after doing my own research of how these chemicals in our everyday life are killing us slowly, but surely, and making our lives miserable in the process with eczema, psoriasis, asthma, allergies, etc.

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For me it's too late. My daughter died from a tumor in her throat, and now I have to wonder if using these products contributed.

Mia Davis from the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics will be at the Down 2 Earth expo on Sunday April 4 at 2pm giving a talk on Toxins in Personal Care Products

From the event's website:

"No one is minding the store―not the cosmetics or plastics industry, and not the FDA. Toxins are commonplace in personal care products―even in children's bubble bath. Other consumer products also contain toxic chemicals, including baby bottles, food cans, toys, furniture and electronics. In the past two decades, we've learned that exposure to even very low doses of these chemicals, especially endocrine disruptors, can have serious long term health effects, like obesity, ADHD, heart disease, reproductive problems and cancer―all of which are steadily on the rise.

Mia Davis of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and the national Workgroup for Safe Markets will present some of the problems and solutions to these environmental health problems and answer your questions about how to keep your family safer, and what we do to change our country's broken chemical policies."

there is a link where you can go and find out excatly whats in every product you use in your home, I will be glad to give anyone this link, just email me with your email and I will send it to you with a list of some of the most popular products and their ingredients listed!!! Its not good, they also list what those ingredients can do to you, I have found a wonderful 24 year old company that has been making safe and effective products, I have been using them now for 6 months and love them!
v.jordan68@gmail.com if you would like the list and web link.

I also agree that the Cosmetics Database is a great website to find out what is in the products we are purchasing. I found a brand new company in Canada that test products looking at the lifecycle of the product (including the ingredients). Skin care products they sell include the Vada and Erbaviva lines (baby products included). Erbaviva is actually USDA Certified Organic, which is very rare for a skin care line. I know the Vada line can only be purchased through this company (products can also ship to US) but Erbaviva is sold in stores. E-mail me if you would like the website. princess_painsley@hotmail.com .

Who mentioned vaseline petroleum jelly? Petroleum? You've got to be joking, surely! The very thing we need to be avoiding! I thank the Lord that , in my youth, the only cleanser available was plain old 'Sunlight' soap (regardless of the caustic soda). At 64yrs of age I am, touch wood, very healthy in comparison with many younger people. I am really concerned about the plethora of harmful ingredients in the everyday products to which my grandchildren are now subjected. I am doing my bit for my health and the environment by using products that are completely safe and I wish some members of my family would follow suit!!!!

u should read some of the comments for where to look.

Just an FYI while Melaleuca may be a better choice than some commercial products it is hardley non toxic lets take a look at the ingredients in the kids Koala Pals Line according to the back of the bottle:
Aqua (water/Eau), Sodium trideceth Sulfate, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, PEG-80 Sorbitan Laurate, Disodium Cocoamphodiacetate, PEG-150 Distearate, Benzyl Alcohol, Parfum, Polyquaternium-10, Tetrasodium EDTA, Citric Acid, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, d-a-Tocopheryl Acetate (Natural Vitamin E), Avena Sativa (Oat) Extract, Butylene Glycol, Chamomilla Recutita (Chamomile) Leaf Extract, Camellia Oleifera (Green Tea) Leaf Extract, Amylcinnamyl Alcohol, Benzyl Salicylate, Butylphenyl Methypropional, Hexl Cinnamal, Linallol

As you can see quite a few ingredients in this skin care product for children have skin and eye irritants in them. Check out Skin Deep if you have questions on the ingredients.

Also they do not disclose all of thier ingredients, what are they hiding?? Melaleuca is a stepping stone in the range of getting better, if you have MCS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity) then this is not a place to get products from as they contain Petro Chemicals. I am not saying they are bad by any means just not the best when it comes to getting toxins out. Just do your research another good source for childrens products is www.safemoma.com .

DR. Bronners has everything and it is worth it. Also Tom's of Maine seems good.