*A Look at Laundry Soap Is it really clean?*
*LAUNDRY SOAP * We are obsessed with cleanliness in the West. Since the 1950s, the "sparkle" has been a popular symbol of cleanliness in advertising, the implication being that if we don't have a perfectly-clean house, we're somehow failing in our duties as human beings. But when we use cleansers to wash off our kitchens, bathrooms, and dishes, chemical residues are left behind. The problem? Your skin is a semi-permeable membrane, and the largest organ of your body. We use patch drugs today to take advantage of this; beneficial medications are absorbed through the skin directly into the bloodstream. Dirt is generally too large to get through this membrane – but the chemicals left behind by cleaning products can get right inside. Even worse news: the soaps and detergents you use in your laundry are filled with harmful chemicals. Phosphorus, ammonia, and phenol can all be found in your laundry soap. But the worst culprit is artificial enzymes. Detergent companies often advertise their product as environmentally safe because they contain enzymes. The action of enzymes in water is to bind with proteins in dirt, enabling your wash water to suspend the dirt and extract it from clothing. But an enzyme doesn't recognize the difference between a dirt protein and the proteins in your skin, on your hands, and in your mucus membranes. Today, many detergent producers are using quaternary amines, a form of synthetic enzyme, to clean clothes. They are better cleansers than natural enzymes, but they are also very toxic. Their chemical similarity to natural neurotransmitters raises the question of whether they may be causing neurological and other damage when they enter our bodies via the skin. And there's one more thing you should consider: these enzymes, so much better at binding to dirt, are also much better at binding to your skin. Who doesn't touch detergent when they wash clothes? Synthetic enzymes bind to the proteins in the skin on your hands, and will remain there even after sixteen thorough rinses. From there, and from anywhere you touch with your hands, these enzymes can be absorbed into the blood stream. With a substance we know to be toxic, but understand little about, we are cleaning every article of clothing we put on our family's bodies. -- ~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~--- Connect your World with Us join Now - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dimpill_gang/join Affiliated group from dimpill_gang for Only Adult Mails - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fantazies/join Affiliated group from dimpill_gang for Only Health and Food Mails - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Health_and_Gourmet/join -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~
