I forwarded Tom's comments on SLS to my daughter, who has an organic household and personal care products web site (and business) in Australia. Here is her response, with emphasis and [edits] added:
Thanks for sending that interesting on a number of counts... Id like to read the whole thread, can you forward it to me? I'm a big fan of promoting not shampooing daily... once or twice a week should be enough for most adults, and once or twice a month for kids. Interesting about Dr Bronners... I have actually been thinking about adding them to my line of products, as it is one of the only other companies that lives up to my standards. Narelle (the miessence founder) mentioned them as one of only two other companies that makes organic personal care products that are certified to food grade standards, as opposed to the weaker "cosmetic" standards. I use their liquid soap and bar soap and lip balm, as miessence doesn't have comparable products. I've heard that SLS isn't that bad, compared with other chemicals, the sad thing is, products which say they are SLS-free sometimes use SLES (Sodium Lauryth Sulphite), which is actually MORE dangerous... I use the cosmetics database that he [Tom Shelley] mentioned regularly. _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
