| They are found in perfumes made from synthetic musks, for instance, and in caulking, paint, varnishes and cleaning solutions, which are often very toxic.
"Pesticides, our last category, may be the most dangerous of all. They are used, of course, to exterminate in homes or out of doors. If you live in a farm or orchard area, you may be subject to pesticide drifts. There are also often significant residues in foods, especially in foods imported from countries where there is no regulation in the use of pesticides. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 My fond childhood memories are not of the smell of home-baked bread but of the acrid perfumes of a chemistry lab. Back then, if you asked me about my religious beliefs, I might have said I was an agnostic. In other words, I wasn't the most likely candidate in the world to embrace spirituality.
I went off to Brandeis University in 1966, determined to get an MD and PhD and follow in my father's footsteps. Brandeis was a crucible for radical thought at that time, and much to my parents' chagrin, I became somewhat of a radical proponent for social change. |
Ron Garner
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 Are you sensitive to perfumes, smoke or chemical odors?
12 Are you troubled with skin problems, such as rashes or hives, for example?
13 Do you have any joint or muscular aches?
14 Do you now have any allergies causing sinus or bronchial troubles that you did not have in the past?
If there are more YES answers than NO answers, the probability of a Candida overgrowth is very high. If there are about 25% YES's, there is a good possibility of a mild Candida problem. And if there are 75% or more YES's, then you can count on a moderate to severe case of candidiasis. |
Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
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 Los pacientes son limpiados soplandolos con agua bendita y perfumes. En casos raros jugo de tabaco y extractos de lo que los peruanos Hainan chamico (Datura ferox) se usan para purificar a los pacientes. Las mesas de Ecuador Meridional tambien son mucho menos elaboradas que las mesas de curanderos peruanos. Las canciones usadas por curanderos ecuatorianos durante sus sesiones se centralizan en el simbolismo cristiano. Referencias sobre la cosmologia andina son escasas y el uso de cuyes como instrumentos de diagnostico casi ha desaparecido del botiquin de los curanderos. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 The herb is used in perfumes and cosmetics.
PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS
No health hazards or side effects are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages.
DOSAGE
Mode of Administration: It is used only in the perfume and cosmetic industry.
LITERATURE
Kern W, List PH, Horhammer L (Hrsg.), Hagers Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, 4. Aufl., Bde. 1-8, Springer Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1969. |
David Steinman
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 Users of high-end phthalates include some of most popular perfumes. Every American and European fragrance the not-for-profit Environmental Working Group tested contains phthalates.11-12 Every single European deodorant EWG recently tested also contains phthalates.13
When testing seventy-two name-brand, off-the-shelf beauty products for the presence of phthalates, the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics found phthalates in nearly three-quarters of the products tested, though the chemicals were not listed on any of the labels. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Fragrance mix, a group of the eight most common fragrance allergens that are found in foods, cosmetic products, insecticides, antiseptics, soaps, perfumes and dental products.
•Formaldehyde, a preservative that is used in paints, medications, fabric finishes, paper products, household cleaners and cosmetics.
•Cobalt chloride, a metal that is found in medical products, hair dye, antiperspirant and metal-plated objects, such as snaps, buttons and tools. Also found in cobalt blue pigment.
•Bacitracin, a topical antibiotic. |
Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
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| Patients are cleansed by spraying them with holy water and perfumes. In rare cases tobacco juice and extracts of Jimson weed (Datura ferox) are used to purify the patients. Southern Ecuadorian mesas are also much less elaborate than the mesas of Peruvian curanderos. The incantations used by healers during their curing sessions center on Christian symbolism.
References to Andean cosmology are almost entirely absent, and the use of guinea pigs as diagnostic instruments has all but disappeared from the tool kit of these healers. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 These same plants manufacture the smells found in fine perfumes, as well as household products (e.g., deodorant, dishwashing detergent, bath soap, shampoo, furniture polish, floor wax). The process is the same: food and aroma technologists manipulate volatile chemicals to create particular tastes and smells. So, as Schlosser puts it, "The basic science behind the scent of your shaving cream is the same as that governing the flavor of your TV dinner."
Colorful Science
Giving food the right color is also a science. Color additives make food more appealing. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 Part Used: Flower
Lavender has a long history of use in cosmetics and perfumes and as a medicine. As a medicine, it is best known as a carminative for people with gas, nausea, and vomiting. Lavender also is a nervine, antidepressant, and a mild nootropic agent. Lavender essential oil can be used topically for burns and fungal infections and as an antibacterial medication for cuts and wounds.
Lavender is one of the herbs I use to treat people with stagnation in the gastrointestinal tract or emotional stagnation. |
Marshall Editions
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 Soaps and heat can cause the skin to lose moisture and antiperspirants, perfumes, and hot baths can further irritate the condition. Certain fabrics can also irritate the skin. Many people are sensitive to wool and it should be avoided in most cases.
Use emollient lotions: A straightforward case of dry skin generally presents with dryness, itchiness, and some flaking. Scratching the skin generally produces redness and can result in infection in severe cases. Dry skin usually feels better when emollient lotions are applied. |
KC Craichy
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 International use of phthalates includes softeners of plastics, oily substances in perfumes, additives to hair sprays, lubricants, wood finishers, and millions of other manufactured products. They have been known to cause genital abnormalities in males and are contributing to the rise in hypospadia, a birth defect. Phthalates, such as those found in perfumes, are also toxic (poisonous) to both the fetus and babies. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And throw out all those perfumes and colognes, please, people, you are polluting the air for everyone else who actually has olfactory senses remaining. Maybe you can't smell yourself because your nose has been dulled from years and years of use of these products, but I tell you what - everybody else can smell you! And we're tired of it. Take those products, throw them away and try to live a day without smelling like an artificial fragrance factory, for God's sake.
And while you're at it, throw out the antimicrobial soap. Er, wait a minute, that might be an EPA violation. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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 Known Chemical Triggers of Hayfever
Chlorine Diesel fuel Newspaper print perfumes Pesticides Plastics Solvents Synthetic drugs
Toxic metals (mercury, lead, nickel, cadmium, chromium)
To limit your exposure to hayfever-inducing chemicals, it is important to take nutritional supplements to help your body lower its existing load of chemicals (vitamin C and magnesium also act as natural antihistamines), and follow the guidelines in chapter 3 when planning and preparing your meals. You should eat organic foods and wash and prepare them in ways that will reduce your chemical intake. |
Mike Adams
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 Some brand-name perfumes contain as many as 22 different cancer-causing chemicals identified by laboratory testing. The FDA has been petitioned to require safety warnings on such products, but has stonewalled such efforts.
In 1986, the National Academy of Sciences targeted syntheticfragrances as one ofthe six categories of chemicals that should be given high priority for neurotoxicity testing. The report states that 95 percent of chemicals used in fragrances are synthetic compounds derived from petroleum. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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 It is one of several plants of the carrot family (Apiaceae or Umbelliferae) that are harvested for various resinous gums used mainly in scents, incenses, perfumes and traditional medicine. Of particular interest is an ancient Roman condiment known as silphium or laserpitium, obtained from a North African plant that is believed to be extinct as a result of over-exploitation. It was highly prized - said to have fetched the same price as gold. Silphium appears to have been replaced by asafoetida. These gums are produced in a wide region that includes Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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| IBS is a so
Chemical Triggers of IBS
Chemical fumes (such as those from perfumes, paints, new carpet, and automobile exhaust)
Chlorine
Environmental pollution (such as auto exhaust) Pesticides (particularly organochlorines) Solvents (such as formaldehyde, phenol, and ethanol) Toxic metals called "disease of exclusion": once other possible causes have been ruled out, a diagnosis of IBS can be made. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They want you to buy the soft drinks, the snack chips, the homogenized milk products, all those sweets and candies, drugs, cosmetics, personal care products, perfumes and colognes, air fresheners, carpet cleaners, and dryer sheets. Boy, they want you to buy that stuff! But none of that stuff makes you healthy; in fact, most of it gives you disease.
Only uneducated people will rely on prescription drugs
Soon, organized medicine will be relegated only to those extremely uneducated people in society. It's going to be the low-income, low-education people who turn to organized medicine. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| People have antimicrobial soaps, dryer sheets with toxic chemicals, and then there are people using all sorts of personal perfumes and fragrance products that are also loaded with cancer-causing chemicals. You've got people putting deodorant in their armpits, and that deodorant contains aluminum which promotes dementia and Alzheimer's disease. And if that's not enough toxicity, you can buy air fresheners that will release a mist of toxic chemicals into the very air that you breathe so that you can inhale carcinogenic chemicals directly into your lungs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They certainly don't wear a lot of perfumes and cologne, because people also dumb down their senses through the sense of smell. When a person loads up on all kinds of fragrance products, including dryer sheets (which is really nothing more than laundry perfume, by the way), perfumed lotions, shampoo that's loaded with perfume and brand name soaps and deodorants that have even more perfume, they dull their sense of smell so much that they cannot even sense the subtleties of smell in the world around them, and thus they become mentally numb. They actually lose intelligence. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There are perfumes and colognes that people just slather on like they are taking a bath in them. Their senses get dulled, and soon they can't even smell the stuff anymore.
People also put on clothes that have been washed in detergent loaded with fragrance chemicals. These people run around in these clothes and sweat, which helps the toxicity absorb into the skin and bloodstream where it promotes cancer. There are fake air fresheners and furniture polishes that contain toxic chemicals. These products are all promoted as being helpful when really they are quite deadly. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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| Bubble bath soaps (bath foam) almost always contain sodium lauryl sulfate (which can be contaminated with carcinogens from chemical processing), formaldehyde (possibly cancer causing), and many chemical perfumes.
> Lipsticks contain petroleum distillates, which can cause damage to the nervous system, skin, kidneys, and eyes. They also contain aluminum, a known toxin.
> Talcum powder was linked in a 1982 article in the journal Concerto a 328 percent increased risk of ovarian cancer for women who apply it to sanitary napkins and genitals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Their house smelled of fragrance, laundry detergent, dryer sheets, perfumes, colognes and shampoos. I could just sense the toxicity of their environment, and yet they were avid recyclers.
They dutifully sorted the containers of all their toxic products into different recycling bins without even a hint of awareness about their level of self-delusion. As I saw this, I thought to myself, "You people are insane; you're not saving the planet. You're only saving yourself from guilt. |
Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
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 In most cases the cleansing of the patients involves the nasal ingestion of tobacco Juice and perfumes, and extracts of Jimson weed {Datura ferox) are sometimes used to purify the patients.
While the incantations used by healers during their curing sessions include Christian components (e.g., the invocation of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and any number of saints), references to Andean cosmology (e.g., to the apus or the spirits of the mountains) are very common. The use of guinea pigs as diagnostic instruments is standard in Northern Peru. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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| Using nonenvironmentally friendly cosmetics, such as deodorants
(which contain aluminum), toiletries, such as hairsprays, perfumes, nail varnish, etc. (which contain solvents and plastics).
_ Using fluoridated toothpaste.
_ Using nonenvironmentally friendly household cleaners.
_ Living in a major city (due to air pollution).
_ Eating the skins or outside leaves of conventionally grown fruits and vegetables (nonorganic, particularly strawberries, apples, pears, carrots, lettuce). _ Regularly drinking one or more soft drinks from aluminum cans a day. |
Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
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| Combinar con un poco de los perfumes siguientes: Carifio, Dios de la Huaringa, Dios de la Felicidad, San Antonio, Macumba Pusanga, Gran Jefe, Mil Flores, Llama Plata y Ekeko y dejar enfriarse antes de banarse. Bafiar-se 2 veces (solo martes y viernes) cada 3 meses. - Preparation: 1. Mix in Seguro with other Herbs of Strength, and Herbs of Luck. 2. Boil 20g in 51 of water for 20 minutes. Mix with other Herbs of Strength and Herbs of Luck. Bathe 3 times a week. 3. Boil 11 of water, then add lOg of Valeriana Estrella. Drink 4 times a day or as needed. |
| A curing ceremony normally involves purification of the patient by orally spraying blessed and enchanted herbal extracts on the whole body to fend off Evil spirits and by nasal ingestion of tobacco Juice and perfumes.
Two hundred seventy-eight different medical conditions were recorded. Most plants were used for the treatment of multiple ailments. The large variety of conditions is grouped into 72 main categories. |
| Seven percent of all plant uses entailed the preparation of a seguro, a bottle or small flask filled with plant material along with various perfumes. This amulet has to be carried by the patient at all times, or it is placed in the house and used for periodic blessings. Seguros contained anything from a handful to more than three-dozen different ingredients. In two percent of the plant uses the material was employed to fabricate charms, and in one percent of all applications the plant material was burned as incense, with the smoke inhaled for treatment. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Recent research shows that even air fresheners are contaminated with phthalates, and new details about cancer-causing chemicals in household products seem to emerge every week.
But when it comes to preventing cancer, the cancer industry is silent. Why should they say anything, anyway? If they teach women how to prevent breast cancer, they lose customers. Besides, the scheme they're running right now is working brilliantly. |
Luca Turin
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 How perfumes are composed
There are six* big perfumery firms, billion-dollar multinationals, and countless small ones. The Big Six (and the tiny company I work for) have the privilege of creating new perfume molecules. The others merely mix the ones that are available for sale outside the parent company. Those that aren't for sale are called captive. In order to understand how a perfumer works, look at her1" desk. On the right, a little tray prepared by the commercial department contains twenty or so 5-ml bottles of the stuff that has just appeared on the market, composed by other companies. |
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