A while ago I wrote about the potential dangers of parabens in deodorants and other personal care products. Sadly, parabens are just one of the nasty ingredients that commercial deodorants and antiperspirants typically contain. Almost every deodorant on the supermarket shelves – as well as many in health shops – contain one or more aluminium […]
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Breast cancer and personal care
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, which might be more usefully renamed Breast Cancer Prevention month. Most of us are aware of breast cancer. Now let’s increase our understanding of how to avoid it, and foster some habits that might help us reduce this scourge. Several ingredients contained in almost all “ordinary” personal care and […]
Travelling light
Have you noticed the sweet little collections of tiny packages of personal care products, marketed as convenient, pint-sized travel packs? They seem more like a waste of excessive packaging to me, but there is definitely something appealing about having everything you need, ready to use, and not taking up a lot of space, when you […]
Deodorant dangers, part two (especially for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers)
When it comes to personal care products, especially deodorant, there are two main areas of concern for pregnant women and mothers of young babies: passing the toxins in them to your baby the way that they interfere with attachment. Toxins in breast milk and the womb Some of the most dangerous chemicals are those known […]