From: What doctors don't tell you, nr 3 - 2000

The main sin of the shampoo-manufacturers

Check the ingredients on your shampoobottle and look for a substance named like Sodium Laureth Sulphate (short: SLS). (Also suspect Disodium Laureth Sulpoccinate, Sodium Lauryl Sulphate) It is part of most arts of shampoo and they use it because it produces a lot of foam and it is inexpensive. SLS is also used to brush garage's floors. It is a strong means and it is proven carcinogenic. On most shampoos you will find SLS after aqua (water) on the list of ingredients - even on so called herb-shampoos. This means SLS is the mostly available ingredient in these products. I once called a manufacturer of shampoos and told them their company was producing a product which consists of a carcinogenic. The answer was: "Yes, we know, but we can't do anything about it. We just need it for the foam."

(Michelle Hailey, University of Pennsylvania Health System)

Links towards information about it:

• Eye damage to young children.
• Search Google for it!

Eye damage to young children is bad because it is in every baby-shampoo normally sold in the Netherlands. Cancer is not proven, but where smoke is, there is a fire. The shampoo I now use can easily be rinsed out of my hair. With SLS you always get a little foam left!

Why should you want foam when you are brushing your teeth? Fluorid does also do a lot of damage!

Sodium Laureth Sulphate (SLS)

A letter has been circulating the internet which claims that there is a link between cancer and sodium laureth (or lauryl) sulphate (SLS), an ingredient used in shampoos and toothpastes. Health Canada has looked into the matter and has found no scientific evidence to suggest that SLS causes cancer. It has a history of safe use in Canada.

Upon further investigation, it was discovered that this e-mail warning is a hoax. The letter is signed by a person at the University of Pennsylvania Health System and includes a phone number. Health Canada contacted the University of Pennsylvania Health System and found that it is not the author of the sodium laureth sulphate warning and does not endorse any link between SLS and cancer.

The Hoax is that this is NOT A HOAX

Health Canada considers SLS safe for use in cosmetics. Therefore, you can continue to use cosmetics containing SLS without worry. If you still have any concerns, there are products which are SLS-free available on the market.

We now found that this was absolutely not a HOAX!

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