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Warning!

The following substances may be contaminated with 1,4 dioxane:

  • Ethoxylated ingredients
  • PEG
  • Polyethylene
  • Polyethylene Glycol
  • Polyoxyethylene "-eth" ingredients like "laureth"
  • "oxynol" ingredients
  • polysorbate 60 and 80
Did you know? The average human male sperm count dropped 50% between 1938 and 1990
This is too short a period for genetic change.   The same drop in sperm count is observed in nature--many animals are not reproducing they way they should.

What's the problem?
1,4-dioxane is a potent carcinogen itself AND is related to dioxin--THE most toxic chemical known. It is a POTENT hormone disruptor.
What's a hormone disruptor?
It is a chemical that the body THINKS is a hormone, even though it may not be related to a hormone or even have a similar chemical shape to the hormone….the body is tricked. Often the body thinks the chemical is an estrogen. 1.4-dioxane is an 'estrogen mimic'.
Research on hormone disruptors / estrogen mimics
Labs across the US, Canada, and Europe were doing testing with breast tissue cells and suddenly all the cells started to duplicate too fast. Researchers FINALLY discovered that the supplier of pipettes had changed plastics--the cells were recognizing the 'breakdown' chemical as estrogen and so were duplicating. That's why it's called an 'estrogen mimic'--it bears no relationship to estrogen but the body recognizes it as such. The research suggests that estrogen mimics are a potential 'cause' of the increase in estrogen-related diseases and cancers (prostate, endometrial, breast).
Elsewhere, scientists noticed fish, birds and other animals were ill or acting strangely below discharges from municipal waste outlets and sewage treatment plants. Initially they thought they were witnessing an increase in environmental estrogen because of the birth control pill. But they finally traced the cause of the unnatural behavior to the breakdown of certain chemicals in household detergents and personal care products.
These effects on animals are now showing up in humans. It takes only a tiny amount of certain chemicals to shift the hormone balance. How much?
Imagine a 6-mile-long tanker train full of water and 1 drop of chemical: That's how little it takes.
What's worse, it's considered a "single hit" problem: a single hit can create irreversible damage. The effect depends on WHEN that droplet hits.
Hormone disruptors act as hand-me-down poisons passing from one generation to the next, victimizing the unborn and the very young. They can create 3 generations of damage.
What are the results of hormone disruption?
Scientists have identified two directions for damage by estrogen mimics:
1. estrogen related problems: estrogen-linked cancers (breast, prostate, endometrial) or hormonal/fertility disruption
2. immune suppression (immune / auto-immune disease) and behavioral problems (think of ADHD in children; this is happening in animals, too)

What can you do to avoid exposure to 1,4 dioxane?

AVOID ingredients that may be contaminated with 1,4-dioxane unless the company can assure you that they use a process called "vacuum stripping" AND this is ascertained by third party scientists (NOT THE COMPANY ITSELF)
AVOID products in unsafe plastic containers (soft plastics are estrogen mimics). For safer plastics look for PETE or HDPE on the bottom of the container
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