"....Why have you not heard more about this?
Remember that the makers of personal care products are making billions of pounds a year. Just like the tobacco industry was able to do for decades, the makers produce scientific data of their own to cast doubt on findings. After all it took 20 years for the tobacco industry to be forced just to add warnings to their products.
The US Food and Drug Administration has insisted that the following warning appears on some tubes of toothpaste there. "“Do not swallow …. In case of accidental ingestion, seek professional assistance or contact a poison control centre immediately.”"
Well, the fastest way to absorb things is under the tongue where it can take as little as 30 seconds. Is it not possible that some toothpaste might get under your tongue for that length of time while brushing? In fact, children have died from swallowing too much toothpaste.
But more about toothpaste in another issue.
The skin is a living and breathing organ of your body. To demonstrate just how much can pass through it, if you spend just 17 minutes in a bubbly bath, analysis of your urine would reveal traces of all the ingredients of that bubble bath product.
So, in summary, SLS is a major ingredient in most shampoo, bubble bath and shower gel. It appears there because it is cheap and very effective at producing foam. There is a large amount of evidence to suggest that SLS is a health hazard. The companies that produce most of these products want to produce them as cheaply as possible, and to make them as bubbly as possible. Whilst the evidence against SLS is not widely known, there is no commercial incentive for these companies to use anything else. As consumers, the best way for us to bring about change is to vote with our wallets. If people don’t buy their products because they want to avoid SLS, then these companies will stop using it. Until then, they won’t unless the are forced to by law.
But the good news is that you can avoid SLS and SLES if you want to. There are many, many small companies - and some larger ones - producing products without these chemicals. It’s just a case of finding them.
Other Forms of SLS
Sodium Lauryl Sulphate and Sodium Laureth Sulphate have many, many other names. Here are just a few of them to help you spot them:
Sodium Lauryl Sulphate -
Sodium lauryl sulfate -
Sodium dodecyl sulphate -
Sodium n - dodecyl sulfate -
Sodium dodecyl sulfate -
Dodecyl sodium sulfate -
Sodium monododecyl sulfate -
Sodium monolauryl sulfate -
SDS -
SLS
Sodium Laureth Sulphate -
Sodium laureth sulfate -
Sodium polyoxyethylene monoalkyl ether sulfate -
Sodium polyoxyethylene monoalkyl ether sulphate -
Sodium lauryl ether sulfate -
SLES
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The above is an extract from Naturally Better for You Magazine.
