Toxins Found In Detergents, Air Fresheners

Great, now I can't even wash my clothes.

I bet the NRA has something to do with this!

Im soooooooooo tired

One more thing to worry about.

and we don't even know which brands are the ones that are unsafe.

No kidding ? I thought everything just mystically turned springtime fresh in the wash.

what? i didn't hear ya i was huffing bounce sheets.

lol

I'm not surprised - sometimes chokes me because of the strong odor.

remember walking past a neighbors house when you were a kid and they were drying clothes and the air smelled nice,... they were getting us stoned! im suin!
lol

Anything labeled FRAGRANCE in the ingredients is nasty stuff. that's why I use DREFT detergent for my sons clothing and UNSCENTED shampoos and BABY WIPES. The SCENT is a bunch of nasty chemicals. Just google it and you will see.

well maybe it is time for these manufacturers to disclose the ingredients in their products. we are asking restaurants to disclose nutritional information and there is nothing outwardly toxic in the food so why shouldn't we get much needed information about every day household products that could seriously harm our health. of course the manufacturers will probably complain about the cost involved in new labeling just like happened with food products that now have nutritional information on their labels.the other thing that will cost big time is the reformulation of all those products that right now could over time kill us. we have no way of knowing whether any of these products could have been a contributory factor in any deaths. of course this article is missing the obvious that could have been very helpful and that would be the other toxic substances besides acetone.

Nice of our Bush Government to NOT
reveal who these companies are.
Cool!

Gimme Shelter wrote:

No kidding ? I thought everything just mystically turned springtime fresh in the wash.

LOL yeah.. like the clothes just got clean through osmosis or something.. a washing fairy came along and just with a magic wand suddenly made all the clothes April Fresh! LOL

Why would you print this when no brands are listed. It seems to me that someone didn't bother to do there homework. She could have listed what she tested .I think that you now need to research what you have printed , see if there is any truth to this. Otherwise what is the point of the article?'You are washing your clothes in toxins and breathing toxins. Come on.

sam wrote:

One more thing to worry about.
and we don't even know which brands are the ones that are unsafe.

I read the article at yahoo instead of here. Didn't this article say the authors of the study are publishing complete results with brand names (they only tested about six brands) in a journal real soon now? The media will pick that up.

In the meantime, people who have cats and dogs with allergies and use "air freshners" should be surgically neutered so the can't breed.

You can go to a health food store and get detergents with less smelly toxic stuff. Too difficult to just not buy the stuff - product or ideology - that corpulentations shove at you?

Most fabric softeners contain formaldehyde, which is the Anti wrinkling agent

How about some facts here? I found this info about the study on the web:
The Steinemann study found 58 different volatile organic compounds (VOCs) at levels above a concentration of 300 parts per billion but did not list the concentration of each chemical. To put this in context, 300 parts per billion is just above the level of analytical detection for these materials. Ingredients which sound scary when listed by their chemical names are materials that occur naturally in everyday items, often in much larger quantities than may be used in fragranced products. Some examples include: alpha-Pinene (pine forests); Acetone (cheddar cheese, apple juice, strawberries); 2-Butanone (coffee, citrus fruit, grapes); Benzaldehyde (white bread – at >40,000 ppm, roasted coffee – at 2,000 ppm, apple juice – at around 300 ppm); Ethanol (blackberries, cauliflower, cherries, cucumbers); Ethyl acetate( honey, tomatoes, vinegar).
It would be folly to declare the numerous pine forests lining the west and east coasts toxic or hazardous just because they give off the VOC, alpha-pinene. Even more folly to put a hazard warning on a tomato which naturally contains 8501 parts per million of benzaldehye. Or even to require forests and tomatoes to be labeled with their constituent chemicals. So why does Steinemann want the fragrance industry to label the very low levels of these same chemicals when contained in our products, and why does she impute that these chemicals are hazardous when clearly that is not the case?
Adds a little balance doesn't it?

Are you kidding??? Why is this possible??? Who allows this? Oh, nevermind - the all-mighty dollar and the legislators in their pockets!!!

A lot of us knew this before the article was published, so this doesn't surprise me one bit. Consumers have to know by now that bleach, air-fresheners, detergents, cleaning products, dry-cleaning chemicals, carpet cleaners, oven cleaners, etc., all contain toxic chemicals. Remember the ads recently about how hazardous bleach and air-fresheners are? Yet, Chlorox (the worst offender) keeps pushing their products more and more, and are even marketing it as "safe" for use around children and for cleaning germs from childrens' toys. NOT. Check the Internet...there are safer alternatives and home remedies one can use in the home. If we were smarter and more determined than the manufacturers, we'd boycott them all, forcing them to remove the toxins that threaten our very lives.

Bee Vee wrote:

<quoted text> LOL yeah.. like the clothes just got clean through osmosis or something.. a washing fairy came along and just with a magic wand suddenly made all the clothes April Fresh! LOL

Hey, A guy can hope can't he ?LOL....

Why do news orgs post such useless articles that have not substance and just creates fear with limited information?!!
This is why I don't watch local news anymore on TV as well. For important world info they give a 10 sec air time, but for the latest beauty treatment that has no medical proof of working they give 10 minutes.
Why does the local new treat their viewers as shallow nimrods, only reason I see as they are ones themselves.