| When was the last time you tried to buy a plain | | | | doesn't have to kill them, just disrupt them in |
| old deodorant? I'm only asking because I can't find | | | | some way and you get mental problems. |
| one anywhere, or rather I couldn't. | | | | My son is autistic and you can read all about my |
| Instead, everywhere sold anti-perspirant | | | | run in with heavy metals including aluminium in my |
| deodorants and I just wanted the deodorant | | | | book Autism, Amalgam and Me - Jodi's Journey |
| without the anti perspirant bit. | | | | Continues. Aluminium has also been linked to |
| Why? | | | | Alzheimer's disease which has been predicted to |
| Well, in the last two years I have lost three | | | | triple by the year 2050. It's a horrible long |
| friends to breast cancer and have had my own | | | | destructive illness which tears families apart. |
| personal mammogram scare. Fortunately the | | | | But back to the anti perspirant deodorants. |
| biopsy was benign but even so it was a pretty | | | | I don't know if you are aware of it but your skin |
| traumatic experience and I began to wonder | | | | is often referred to as your third kidney. It is the |
| what on earth is going on. | | | | biggest eliminatory organ in your body and is a |
| I read in the paper last week that the rate for | | | | two way membrane. It will absorb 60% of |
| Breast Cancer is currently 1:9 and that all women | | | | whatever you put on it. |
| aged between 50 and 69 should receive a free | | | | Toxins get in through hair follicles and sebaceous |
| breast examination every two years. | | | | glands and are eliminated through perspiration. |
| Unfortunately those ladies most at risk like my | | | | Now picture the scenario for most women. |
| mother who is over 70 years of age don't qualify. | | | | We like to keep our underarms devoid of excess |
| Another thing I discovered is that in a recent | | | | bodily hair so we shave. We also like to smell |
| study carried out by Reading University in UK on | | | | fresh, so we smooth on deodorants or anti |
| breast cancer patients, every single tumour | | | | perspirants to the area from which we've just |
| contained parabens. | | | | removed this hair. As toxins enter the body via |
| Now parabens are common preservatives in | | | | hair follicles and sebaceous glands they inevitably |
| several personal care products. They are derived | | | | get inside our bodies but if we then block up our |
| from petrochemicals and personal and skin care | | | | under arm sweat glands by using anti perspirant |
| manufacturers have a tendancy to call them | | | | deodorants, how do they get out? |
| 'organic preservatives' which gives the impression | | | | Seemingly, they don't and I wonder if that's why |
| they are safe. | | | | my three friends died of breast cancer and all |
| The reason they are able to do this is because | | | | those women had parabens in their tumours. |
| the chemical term for 'organic' means anything | | | | What do you think? |
| that contains a carbon atom. Since crude oil | | | | Apparently a study of 400 American women |
| comes from decaying leaves and living matter | | | | found that those who shaved three times a |
| which existed thousands of years ago, its DNA | | | | week and applied deodorant at least twice a |
| contains carbon. Sneaky, eh? | | | | week were almost 15 years younger when |
| The problem with parabens is that they mimic | | | | diagnosed with cancer than women who did |
| estrogen, apart from also causing allergic skin | | | | neither. |
| reactions and being eye, skin and respiratory tract | | | | The answer, therefore, could be to stop shaving |
| irritants. | | | | and let your natural body odours loose, or find a |
| Found in body creams, lotions, body washes, anti | | | | safer alternative. Thankfully I've managed to find |
| perspirants and deodorants, parabens are used in | | | | just that in a 100% toxic synthetic chemical free |
| more personal care products than practically any | | | | deodorant which comes in three different aromas. |
| other synthetic ingredient. | | | | It's organic in the true sense of the word which |
| Now deodorants reduce, cover up or eliminate the | | | | means it uses only natural substances and |
| odours most of us would prefer to remain hidden | | | | methods. I can read and pronounce every single |
| and anti perspirants slow down the action of the | | | | ingredient and as it is Certified Organic to food |
| sweat glands. They do this by obstructing the | | | | standards I could theoretically eat it and suffer no |
| amount of perspiration that can be excreted. | | | | ill effects. I don't intend to try it though. Just |
| That's the problem and why I was looking for a | | | | putting it under my arm pits, feeling safe and |
| deodorant. | | | | secure in the knowledge I'm not being poisoned is |
| You see the sweat retarding agents are normally | | | | enough. |
| based on aluminium complexes and I know from | | | | No more toxic anti perspirant deodorants for me. |
| bitter experience that aluminium is a neuro toxin. | | | | How about you? |
| That means it attacks the neurons in the brain. It | | | | |