common household products that contain known carcinogens and/or neurotoxins

[mood4amelody]

From email -

Healthy Home Information for the Intelligent Consumer

You can find out what else is lurking on your shelves, go to the National Institutes of Health Library of Medicine Household Products Database - http://www.householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/ingredients.htm
. You can search almost any brand of cleaner you use, find out what's in it, and uncover its links to health effects.

According to the book, The Safe Shoppers Bible, there are many common household products that contain known carcinogens and/or neurotoxins. Carcinogens are chemicals that cause cancer. Neurotoxins are chemicals that adversely affect the nervous system reducing emotional well being, mental alertness, coordination and other functions associated with intelligence.
Here's a list of toxic cleaning products their manufacturers don't want you to know are harmful:

Lysol disinfectant (all scents)
Renuzit Air Deodorizer
Bon Ami Foam Cleaner
Citri-Solv
Fantastik All-Purpose Cleaner
Formula 409
Pine-Sol Multi-Action Spray
Pledge Household Cleaner
Simple Green
Spic & Span Cleaner
Scotts Liquid Gold
Lemon Pledge
Tilex Soap Scum Remover
Glass Plus
Ajax Cleaner
Gillette Foamy Skin Conditioning
Speed Stick Deodorant
Soft Soap
Secret Deodorant
Johnson's Baby Shampoo S.O.S. Ammonia Glass Cleaner
Dawn Sureshot
S.O.S. Vinegar Cleaner
Joy Dishwashing Liquid
Windex Glass Cleaner
Palmolive Dishwashing Liquid
Shout Aerosol & Stick
Sunlight Dishwashing Liquid
Spray & Wash Stain Remover
Kleen King Aluminum & Copper Cleaner
KR2 Spot Lifter
Behold Furniture Wax
Depend-o Blue Toilet Cleaner
Endust
3M Aerosol Spot Remover
Formby's Lemon & Almond Spray
Most Home & Garden Pesticides Right Guard Deodorant
Ponds Dry Skin Bar
Palmolive Skin Bar
Lady Speed Stick
Lever 2000
Irish Spring Deodorant
Lifebouy Soap
Jergens Liquid Soap
English Leather
Deodorant
Ban Roll-on
Caress Body Bar
Camay
Ultra Brite Toothpaste
Cepacol Mouthwash
Crest Tartar Control
Listerine Original & Cool Mint
Arm & Hammer Toothpaste
Colgate toothpaste
Scope Mouthwash
Old English Furniture Spray
Dove Soap Bars

[Cpogie]

I've got 13 of those items right now, lol but I'm not throwing them out, I may need them for the chemical war one day.

[Motherofthree]

That is a very long list......:eek:

[mood4amelody]

I've got 13 of those items right now, lol but I'm not throwing them out, I may need them for the chemical war one day.

ROTF!!!! :D

[bvanpeltsw]

Johnson's Baby Shampoo?

Yikes!:eek:

[Jenni232323]

Oh Man! I've only got 7 of the items on the list, but Arm & Hammer Toothpaste is my favorite!!! I'm with you, Cpogie, my teeth will be ready for that chemical war too!

[rebate queen]

Stockpiler here-ready for chemical warfare for sure--I have 28:eek:

[Cpogie]

Stockpiler here-ready for chemical warfare for sure--I have 28:eek:

:eek: and I thought I had alot of them, lol You win!!

[angel7794]

I can add another to the list that most do not know about either. Moth balls. I was told they would keep the spider and mice population down, but they have caused cancer in lab animals.