NATURAL JERSEY
  • Home
  • Holistic Health
    • Alternative Medicine, Holistic Doctors, Naturopathic Physicians, Integrative Physicians, Chiropractors, Acupuncturists & Dietitions
    • Energy Work - Healing Touch, Qi Gong, Reiki, Feng Shui
    • Yoga, Massage and Body Work Centers
    • Holistic Salons & Spas
    • Natural Births & Healthy Children
    • Life Health and Wellness Coaches
  • Natural Food
    • Community Supported Gardens, Co-ops & Natural Food Delivery
    • Farms Open to the Public/Farm Stands/Pick Your Own
    • Farmer's Markets
    • Gardening Support, Education & Resources
    • Health Food Stores & Whole Food Specialty Shops
    • Restaurants - OrganicFood/Local Produce/Juice Bars
    • Personal Chefs & Natural Cooking Classes
  • Green Living
    • Natural Landscaping
    • Natural Healthy Home
    • Non-Toxic Body Products
    • Solar, Energy & Green Construction
    • Recycling Your Junk
    • Clothing and Accessories
    • Thrift Shops
    • Green Burial
    • Social Resources
    • Pets
  • Blogs
    • Jersey Health Blog
    • Health Foods and Healthy Recipes
    • Holistic Dental Center >
      • Holistic Dental Center Blog
  • Products
  • Events
  • Specials
  • MyIntent WORD Bracelets
  • Links
  • Advertise

Buy Cancer Free Products

1/4/2013

0 Comments

 
Did I get your attention? My regular readers know I feel strongly about the lack of integrity on the part of corporations that sell products full of dangerous additives. A gift I regularly give out over the holidays is the informative book, Not Just a Pretty Face; the Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry by Stacy Malkan. Malkan shares her conversion from a cosmetics obsessed teenager to a chemical free activist, and what she discovered along the way.

This book's a nice read, 153 paperback pages of mind blowing information on the arrogance of the  cosmetics industry. For example, many of the large companies such as L'Oreal , Proctor and Gamble, Revlon and  Estee Lauder have reduced the number of  cancer causing additives from their products in the European Union but refuse to do the same in the US. The book manages to share the history of the US movement toward safe cosmetics and body products without being too dry to read.

Did you ever wonder why so much money goes to cancer research and we don't seem to see any real progress in reducing the incidence? I have. It became clear reading this book. People are living longer with cancer, but we have not reduced the numbers of people getting it. There is a huge investment on the part of many large corporations in keeping cancer alive.

Cancer treatment is big business. In 1985 the chemical company Zeneca created National Breast Cancer Awareness month. They also bought many cancer clinics. They later became AstraZenega. They run cancer clinics and cancer studies and manufacture the primary cancer drug tamoxifin. Can you say conflict of interest?

Think about breast cancer awareness. Companies create Pink Ribbon products, it doesn't matter if it may be a product that contains cancer causing ingredients. Pink power is big business. No wonder the call is for early detection and a cure once one has it, instead of prevention by identifying and eliminating cancer causing additives. No one's going to make money on treatment and a cure if people aren't getting it in the first place. Check out Think Before You Pink to determine the credibility of breast cancer related marketing.

Over 200 chemicals have been identified that cause breast cancer in animals. They include chemicals commonly found in soaps, cosmetics, detergents, and shampoos.

Only 11% of our cosmetics are screened for safety. Most cosmetics and other body products contain carcinogenic or estrogenic (hormone disrupting) additives. These products don't only have the potential to cause illness but could affect reproduction and the health of our children many years later. In 2004 when the Environmental Working Group's Cosmetics database was activated scary things were discovered. Among them, a diaper rash cream contained an ingredient that was "not to be used on an infants skin" and a blemish cream that was using an ingredient that's supposed to have a warning to avoid skin contact! Clearly many of these companies are unconscionable.

Read the book and support the companies that care enough not to try to poison us, the ones that carry safe natural products. Check your products at the Environmental Working Group's Cosmetics Data Base.

Here are some related links:

http://www.notjustaprettyface.org/ --  A quote from a recent cover story on their site:

...ranking a 7-10 (with 10 being the worst). The most toxic hair relaxer in Skin Deep is called Africa’s Best “Organic” relaxer for kids! — which goes to show, you can’t trust labels on these unregulated products.

http://www.safecosmetics.org/ --  Currently on their site -- Study: Chemicals, pollutants found in newborns

http://www.lesstoxicguide.ca/     A quote from their site:

“Chemicals have replaced bacteria and viruses as the main threat to health. The diseases we are beginning to see as the major causes of death in the latter part of (the 1900's) and into the 21st century are diseases of chemical origin.”

-Dr. Dick Irwin, Toxicologist, Texas A&M University

http://www.thenakedtruthproject.org/--  The Naked Truth Project is committed to telling you the truth about the products you put in your body, on your body, and in your home everyday. There are over 80,000 chemicals currently used in consumer products, with little to
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

          Natural  Jersey

    NaturalJersey.com was created in order to have a place on the web where we can all share the great  green & natural health resources in NJ.  I hope you find it a never ending resource when you're looking for health-minded local businesses. 

    Please let me know if you have any ideas to make this site even better!  -  Wendy

            Support
        Natural Jersey

    I've been working on this site for a while now and I've come to realize many similar sites require businesses to pay in order to be listed on their site.

    Natural Jersey.com will list any appropriate New Jersey resource for free. Otherwise, how could it be a thorough resource for you?

    Since there are no initial listing fees most of the work is done for free; any donations to enable me to spend more time on the site are appreciated. But wait, you don't need to donate at all. You can support the site in other ways.

    One way is simply to use the site, and tell your friends about it.  Come back often, as I'm constantly adding and updating the information.

    Another important way is to be sure to tell any businesses you visit as a result of seeing them here that you found them on Natural Jersey. 

    Lastly, you can support Natural Jersey by making any purchases you would be doing anyway through the links on the site.  Hey, if you're ordering from Amazon anyway, why not support New Jersey businesses in the process. When you order through these links a small percentage comes back to me. That means I can spend more time publicizing New Jersey's health-minded businesses, they get more business, and we've stimulated the local economy. Yay! It's a win-win.

    I appreciate all the great feedback I've been getting on my efforts. Thank you all for your support! Questions/comments/to be listed e-mail me contact@naturaljersey.com
    - Wendy

    Advertising Information

    Archives

    January 2014
    August 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    November 2011
    May 2011
    April 2011
    March 2011
    February 2011

    Categories

    All
    Antibiotic
    Authors
    Beef
    Books
    Chemicals
    Children
    Community Supported Gardens
    Consumer Protections
    Cooking
    Cosmetics
    Dairy
    Electromagnetics
    Environmental Regulations
    Farm Markets
    Farms
    Farm Stands
    Foraging
    Fruit
    Ftc
    Gardens
    Good Fats
    Grass Fed
    Green Marketing
    Healthy
    High Fructose Corn Syrup
    Hiking
    Introduction
    Juicing
    Lighting
    Local Nj Farms
    Milk
    Natural Products
    Nj Outdoors
    Organic
    Outdoors
    Phlalates
    Raw Food
    Recipes
    Recycle
    Reuse
    Safe Chemicals Act
    Spring
    Sugar
    Sunblock
    Sunscreen
    Trans Fats
    Triclosan
    Vegetables
    Water
    Website Information
    Whole Grain
    Whole Grains

    RSS Feed

Natural Jersey - New Jersey's
​Natural Health Site
Required Disclaimers and Site Information
Contact Me 
Photo used under Creative Commons from stu_spivack
  • Home
  • Holistic Health
    • Alternative Medicine, Holistic Doctors, Naturopathic Physicians, Integrative Physicians, Chiropractors, Acupuncturists & Dietitions
    • Energy Work - Healing Touch, Qi Gong, Reiki, Feng Shui
    • Yoga, Massage and Body Work Centers
    • Holistic Salons & Spas
    • Natural Births & Healthy Children
    • Life Health and Wellness Coaches
  • Natural Food
    • Community Supported Gardens, Co-ops & Natural Food Delivery
    • Farms Open to the Public/Farm Stands/Pick Your Own
    • Farmer's Markets
    • Gardening Support, Education & Resources
    • Health Food Stores & Whole Food Specialty Shops
    • Restaurants - OrganicFood/Local Produce/Juice Bars
    • Personal Chefs & Natural Cooking Classes
  • Green Living
    • Natural Landscaping
    • Natural Healthy Home
    • Non-Toxic Body Products
    • Solar, Energy & Green Construction
    • Recycling Your Junk
    • Clothing and Accessories
    • Thrift Shops
    • Green Burial
    • Social Resources
    • Pets
  • Blogs
    • Jersey Health Blog
    • Health Foods and Healthy Recipes
    • Holistic Dental Center >
      • Holistic Dental Center Blog
  • Products
  • Events
  • Specials
  • MyIntent WORD Bracelets
  • Links
  • Advertise