A good source of Red dye 40...
On Friday I was reading a small headline in the city's paper lying around at the office:
"An average of 287 contaminants in the blood of unborn babies [...]"
Then someone wakes up in shock, ungluing their face from the keyboard "fire retardant? How can they find fire retardant in the bloodstream of someone?!..." Well, see you don't necessarly have to EAT it for it to get absorbed.
Yeah. I am slow. It took me a while too to put two and two and two and two, hum, together. But check it out: your freakin pillow, your sofa, your lovely tent probably has fire retardant in it!
Here is part of the article [because I hate when links become defunct after a few months]:
"Pieter Sauer and colleagues at the University Hospital Groningen in the Netherlands analysed 42 maternal blood samples and 27 samples of blood taken from the umbilical cord. For the first time, they found chemicals used as antibacterial agents, flame-retardants and detergents in umbilical-cord blood. Traces of pesticides, artificial musks and plasticisers also appeared.
Concentrations of the antibacterial agent triclosan were higher in cord blood than in maternal blood, while maternal and cord blood had roughly equal concentrations of phthalates, which are used as plasticisers and are also found in ink, paint and cosmetics. All other chemicals were present in lower concentrations in cord blood than in maternal blood, found the study, which was commissioned by WWF and Greenpeace."
I also downloaded the Acrobat [PDF] document from Greenpeace...Don't get me wrong here, I am not a big fan of Greenpeace, I don't know I tend to stay away from Loud mouths as much as possible. But I guess it takes loud mouths sometimes...to get [part of] the message to the hard of earing! ahaha!
I guess, some of these chemicals found in the blood stream disturb me more then others because of the health problems associated with them. So I've made a list of a few of these, as a note to self kind of thing.
Enjoy [sigh]
CHLORINATED PARAFFINS.
Chlorinated paraffins are [a derivate petrolum product] used as plasticizers for polyvinyl chloride, as a lubricant and extreme-pressure additives in metal-machining fluids, as additives to paints, coatings and sealants to improve their resistance to chemicals and to water, and as flame retardants for plastics, fabrics, paints and coatings.
No data on occupational exposure levels were available. Chlorinated paraffins have been detected in water and sediments, in tissues of marine animals, in human foods and in human tissues post mortem.
In mice, it increased the incidence of hepatocellular tumours in animals of each sex and of alveolar/bronchiolar carcinomas in males and of follicular-cell tumours of the thyroid gland in females. In rats, it increased the incidences of hepatocellular tumours in animals of each sex, of follicular-cell tumours of the thyroid in females and of mononuclear- cell leukaemia in males.
Alternatives:
I don't know!
musk ketone and Musk Xylol.
I always wondered why when I was a kid, I used to get sick to my stomac, just walking down the detergeant isle or, kissing my mom in the morning, just after she'd put on her favorite perfume, or when we'd have a hairdressing party at friends, which consisted of using hair spray for a nice "sun" hairdo...Maybe my nose was trying to tell me: "alert! abandon ship, abandon ship!"
Synthetic musk as replaced the natural musk extracted from animal glands. Synthetic musk fragrances are very widespread in the home. They are used as low cost fragrances in soaps, perfumes, air fresheners, detergents, fabric softeners and other household cleaning products. There are four synthetic musk fragrances accounting for 95% of those used. These are the nitro-musks (musk xylene, used in detergents and soaps, and musk ketone, used in cosmetics) and two polycyclic musks (known by their abbreviations ‘HHCB’and ‘AHTN’).
These chemicals have been studied for a while [especially nitro-musks] and some companies have started a while back to replace them with polycyclic musks, which are approve to use in cosmetics, but seem to be just as toxic, although less conclusive studies have been made. It is curious that we are so in a hurry to approve these products for use, but that's the way we like to do it.
Alternative:
unfragranced or fragranced with essential oils. Although, the disturbing thing is that they can still present in your essential oils mixtures! Looking for information about these fake musks, I found a couple of links to sites selling them as additives to make your lill essential oil. Yikes.
Phthalates.
"An average of 287 contaminants in the blood of unborn babies [...]"
Then someone wakes up in shock, ungluing their face from the keyboard "fire retardant? How can they find fire retardant in the bloodstream of someone?!..." Well, see you don't necessarly have to EAT it for it to get absorbed.
Yeah. I am slow. It took me a while too to put two and two and two and two, hum, together. But check it out: your freakin pillow, your sofa, your lovely tent probably has fire retardant in it!
Here is part of the article [because I hate when links become defunct after a few months]:
"Pieter Sauer and colleagues at the University Hospital Groningen in the Netherlands analysed 42 maternal blood samples and 27 samples of blood taken from the umbilical cord. For the first time, they found chemicals used as antibacterial agents, flame-retardants and detergents in umbilical-cord blood. Traces of pesticides, artificial musks and plasticisers also appeared.
Concentrations of the antibacterial agent triclosan were higher in cord blood than in maternal blood, while maternal and cord blood had roughly equal concentrations of phthalates, which are used as plasticisers and are also found in ink, paint and cosmetics. All other chemicals were present in lower concentrations in cord blood than in maternal blood, found the study, which was commissioned by WWF and Greenpeace."
I also downloaded the Acrobat [PDF] document from Greenpeace...Don't get me wrong here, I am not a big fan of Greenpeace, I don't know I tend to stay away from Loud mouths as much as possible. But I guess it takes loud mouths sometimes...to get [part of] the message to the hard of earing! ahaha!
I guess, some of these chemicals found in the blood stream disturb me more then others because of the health problems associated with them. So I've made a list of a few of these, as a note to self kind of thing.
Enjoy [sigh]
CHLORINATED PARAFFINS.
Chlorinated paraffins are [a derivate petrolum product] used as plasticizers for polyvinyl chloride, as a lubricant and extreme-pressure additives in metal-machining fluids, as additives to paints, coatings and sealants to improve their resistance to chemicals and to water, and as flame retardants for plastics, fabrics, paints and coatings.
No data on occupational exposure levels were available. Chlorinated paraffins have been detected in water and sediments, in tissues of marine animals, in human foods and in human tissues post mortem.
In mice, it increased the incidence of hepatocellular tumours in animals of each sex and of alveolar/bronchiolar carcinomas in males and of follicular-cell tumours of the thyroid gland in females. In rats, it increased the incidences of hepatocellular tumours in animals of each sex, of follicular-cell tumours of the thyroid in females and of mononuclear- cell leukaemia in males.
Alternatives:
I don't know!
musk ketone and Musk Xylol.
I always wondered why when I was a kid, I used to get sick to my stomac, just walking down the detergeant isle or, kissing my mom in the morning, just after she'd put on her favorite perfume, or when we'd have a hairdressing party at friends, which consisted of using hair spray for a nice "sun" hairdo...Maybe my nose was trying to tell me: "alert! abandon ship, abandon ship!"
Synthetic musk as replaced the natural musk extracted from animal glands. Synthetic musk fragrances are very widespread in the home. They are used as low cost fragrances in soaps, perfumes, air fresheners, detergents, fabric softeners and other household cleaning products. There are four synthetic musk fragrances accounting for 95% of those used. These are the nitro-musks (musk xylene, used in detergents and soaps, and musk ketone, used in cosmetics) and two polycyclic musks (known by their abbreviations ‘HHCB’and ‘AHTN’).
These chemicals have been studied for a while [especially nitro-musks] and some companies have started a while back to replace them with polycyclic musks, which are approve to use in cosmetics, but seem to be just as toxic, although less conclusive studies have been made. It is curious that we are so in a hurry to approve these products for use, but that's the way we like to do it.
Alternative:
unfragranced or fragranced with essential oils. Although, the disturbing thing is that they can still present in your essential oils mixtures! Looking for information about these fake musks, I found a couple of links to sites selling them as additives to make your lill essential oil. Yikes.
Phthalates.
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