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Toxic Chemicals to Avoid in Bathroom Personal Care Products

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Checklist of Toxic Products

If you are serious about clean living then ensure you don’t buy personal care products with harmful ingredients

Below is a list of 12 ingredients you can memorise to ensure you don’t poison your body and disrupt your endocrine system (hormones that negatively impact your fertility, pregnancy and unborn baby).

This information is valuable for men, women and children.

12 toxic ingredients to avoid in personal care products

On the top of my list is:

1. Sodium laureth sulfate and your fertility

Used in foaming cosmetics, such as shampoos, cleansers and bubble bath. Can be contaminated with 1,4-dioxane, which may cause cancer. Look also for related chemical sodium lauryl sulfate and other ingredients with the letters “eth” (e.g., sodium laureth sulcate).

The natural alternative to a frothing agent is coconut! There are now lots of products in the market labelled with “NO SLS’s” so it is getting easier to look after yourself and your family.

2. BHA and BHT and your fertility

Used mainly in moisturizsers and makeup as preservatives. Suspected endocrine disruptors and may cause cancer (BHA). Harmful to fish and other wildlife. Read more »

3. Coal tar dyes: p-phenylenediamine and colours listed as “CI” followed by a five digit number and your fertility

In addition to coal tar dyes, natural and inorganic pigments used in cosmetics are also assigned Colour Index numbers (in the 75000 and 77000 series, respectively).

Look for p-phenylenediamine hair dyes and in other products colours listed as “CI” followed by five digits.1 The U.S. colour name may also be listed (e.g. “FD&C Blue No. 1” or “Blue 1”). Potential to cause cancer and may be contaminated with heavy metals toxic to the brain. Read more »

4. DEA-related ingredients and your fertility

Used in creamy and foaming products, such as moisturisers and shampoos. Can react to form nitrosamines, which may cause cancer. Harmful to fish and other wildlife. Look also for related chemicals MEA and TEA. Read more »

5. Dibutyl phthalate and your fertility

Used as a plasticizer in some nail care products. Suspected endocrine disrupter and reproductive toxicant. Harmful to fish and other wildlife. Read more »

6. Formaldehyde-releasing preservatives and your fertility

Look for DMDM hydantoin, diazolidinyl urea, imidazolidinyl urea, methenamine and quarternium-15. Used in a variety of cosmetics. Slowly releases small amounts of formaldehyde, which causes cancer. Read more »

7. Parabens and your fertility

Used in a variety of cosmetics as preservatives. Suspected endocrine disrupters and may interfere with male reproductive functions. Read more »

8. Parfum (fragrance) and your fertility

Any mixture of fragrance ingredients used in a variety of cosmetics — even in some products marketed as “unscented.” Some fragrance ingredients can trigger allergies and asthma. Some linked to cancer and neurotoxicity. Some harmful to fish and other wildlife. Read more »

NOTE: The only safe fragrance is 100% organic essential oils. However, not all are suitable for fertility or pregnancy, so find out which essential oils are safe, here:

9. PEG compounds and your fertility

Used in many cosmetic cream bases. Can be contaminated with 1,4-dioxane, which may cause cancer. Also for related chemical propylene glycol and other ingredients with the letters “eth” (e.g., polyethylene glycol). Read more »

10. Petrolatum and your fertility

Used in some hair products for shine and as a moisture barrier in some lip balms, lip sticks and moisturisers. A petroleum product that can be contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which may cause cancer. Read more »

11. Siloxanes and your fertility

Look for ingredients ending in “-siloxane” or “-methicone.” Used in a variety of cosmetics to soften, smooth and moisten. Suspected endocrine disrupter and proven to be toxic to the reproductive system (cyclotetrasiloxane).  Read more »

12. Triclosan and your fertility

Used in antibacterial cosmetics, such as toothpastes, cleansers and antiperspirants. Suspected endocrine disrupter (meaning it creates hormone imbalances) and may contribute to antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

NOTE: The safest antibacterial wash is one that is 100% natural with organic, medical grade ingredients such as Powerfully Pure’s Sanitiser 

Powerfully Pure’s Sanitiser

Powerfully Pure has a top of the range luxury hand sanitiser that you can:

  • use on surfaces
  • use to clean make-up-brushes
  • sanitise your hands
  • use as a skin toner

It is safe for hands, face, pets, children and the elderly.

It is powerful due to its medical grade ingredients.

It is pure because it is 100% organic, natural, vegan, fertility friendly, pregnancy friendly and earth friendly.

 

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Final Note:

A lot of the toxic products on the market are not only harmful for you, the systems of your body and your wellbeing but are also harmful to the environment: to the fish, other wildlife and because governments recycle our water these toxins get re-used over and over again.

As mentioned above, there are so many wonderful products on the market (not usually available in supermarkets or mainstream chemist chains), but often in health food stores and online from reputable companies, like Powerfully Pure who specifically have no toxins and are organic.

 

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About the author:

Fiona Boulton is a Fertility Activator and Fertility Healer.
(An expert in her field since 2007) and leader in Fertility Mind Mastery, Fertility Meditation, Fertility Yoga and Fertility Coaching – helping people take back control of their fertility, faster.

By combining spirit with science and offering extraordinary levels of personal support via her online fertile lifestyle course
Fiona achieves one of the highest success rates world wide.

Fiona Boulton is the founder of Awakening Fertility – accessible world-wide online and in person in London’s medical precinct: Harley Street (Harley Street Fertility Clinic), West Sussex and Perth, Western Australia

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Through Fiona’s “transformation guaranteed” Fertile Lifestyle courses, Fiona helps navigate major transitions to detox your mind and body to help you effectively ‘think yourself fertile’; to change the map your mind has of your body and therefore change your physiology by clearing mental and emotional blockages to having your baby. Fiona’s work focuses on you taking back control by changing the internal and external environment of your cells so you can improve chances of fertility success.

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