How many of us wish to reduce toxins in the food chain, save wildlife, reduce the pollution of our waterways? Yes many of those same people flush perfume and bleach down their sinks, baths, showers and toilets every day. Among the average ten toxins contained in perfume almost all synthetic perfumes contain carcinogenic (cancer causing) Phthalates , toxic to the liver and kidneys, and linked to birth defects, behavioural disorders and immune suppression. Although regularly not listed in the ingredients of perfumed products phthalates thy are almost always present when tested. Some perfumes inhibit an enzyme necessary to detoxification pathways in the body, meaning they really do make people ill.

Others, including those labeled unperfumed and common in baby shampoos and baby lotions, contain Quarternium which is formaldehyde, which suppresses immune function.

A chemical in antimicrobial soaps we wash down our sinks is called methylisothiazolinone stucturally akin to Agent Orange used in the Vietnam War, causes nerve damage.

A chemical common in under arm deoderants and other personal care products, paraben, is linked to breast cancer. We wash it off, in the shower and bath, and down into our water ways it goes from billions of homes worldwide.

Thinking about giving the parent of someone with behavioural disorders, cancer, asthma, allergies, learning disability, ADHD or autism a bottle of perfume for Christmas or their birthday? Think again. Do you really want to make their child more allergic, feel more toxic and even less able to manage their behaviour and process information?
Imagine your luxury, bleached, perfumed quilted 4 ply toilet paper flushed not just down your toilet but billions of toilets worldwide. This water, treated for germs but not these chemicals, ends up in our oceans and fish and is often recycled and ends up in our food chain, even our drinking water. Do you really need such luxury?

Would you rather contribute to the dramatic increase of childhood cancers, asthma, allergies, ADHD and developmental disorders than dare a few natural smells or go out of your way to find natural products without harmful toxins?

If this is what we’re doing to ourselves, what the hell are we doing to our waterways and the wildlife and food it sustains?

We have the power to change these things.

We can vote with our pockets.

We can break habits based on the brainwashing impact of advertising spin and associated popularity.

We can decide to be part of the cure instead of the problem.

Small steps to a better world, for those who dare to step outside of the system.

Donna Williams

http://www.donnawilliams.net