Don’t Greenwash Your Fertility With Endocrine Disruptors
Greenwashing – the practice of promoting environmentally friendly programs to deflect attention from an organization’s environmentally unfriendly or less savory activities. Source: www.dictionary.com.
A lot of products we buy today claim to be environmentally friendly and natural. This is especially common in cosmetics, personal hygiene products and household cleaning products. They are the products which have been shown to be the main culprit in toxic endocrine disruptor overexposure – robbing you of your fertility.
Next time you go shopping make sure to read the product ingredients and don’t just look at the alluring label with words such natural and environmentally friendly written all over it. A lot of products we buy today claim to be environmentally friendly and natural. This is especially common in cosmetics, personal hygiene products and household cleaning products. They are the products which have been shown to be the main culprit in toxic chemical overexposure robbing you of your fertility.
Here is a list of fertility robbing chemicals (endocrine disruptors) you want to steer clear from:
Product | Ingredient to watch out for | Negative effects |
Perfume, deodorant, air deodorizer | Benzene, paradichlorobenzene, formaldehyde | Endocrine disruptor*, teratogen**, reproductive toxicant and carcinogen*** |
Cosmetics, perfumes, degreasers | Glycol ethers | Reproductive toxicants |
Cosmetics and toothpaste | Prefix methyl or ethyl or propyl or butyl PARABEN | Hormone disruptors |
Detergents, disinfectants, mouthwash, skin products | Alkylphenol, bisphenol, ethoxylates | The first one has been banned in Europe due to recognized negative effect on the reproductive health. |
Cling wraps, plastic food containers, plastic packaging | Phthalates | Hormone disruptor, testicular toxicant, teratogen |
Nail polish, cleaning products, glues, paint | Toluene | Hormone disruptor and teratogen |
Laundry products | trichloroethylene | Reproductive toxicant, hormone disruptor, carcinogen |
Antiperspirants | Talc | Ovarian cancer |
Coffee filters, hygiene products, dishwashing and laundry products, public pools, household cleaning products, bleached paper, tap water | Chlorine by products dioxin | Water contaminant, disrupts ecology of lakes and streams, endocrine disruptor and a carcinogen |
* disrupts menstural cycles
** leads to malformations in a growing fetus
***causes cancer
Other nasties which are toxic to the environment are phosphates in dish-washing detergents and laundry products, propane and butane in aerosol sprays.
Put an end to this nonsense of using more economical toxic ingredients which are harmful to the environment, the ecosystem and human health. You can influence the quality and distribution of products by refusing to buy from unethical companies.
Get greenwash savvy
For more information on Greenwashing and unethical companies go to http://www.stopgreenwash.org/ and read the Greenpeace Guide to Greenwash.
Another brilliant resource you can use when you go shopping is the booklet by Bill Statham “The Chemical Maze: Your Guide to Food Additives and Cosmetic Ingredients “. This booklet will help you decipher the ingredient codes on product labels and you’ll quickly learn what fertility robbing endocrine disruptor substances to stay away from.
Thoughts on this? I’d love to hear them.
© 2009 Iva Keene and Natural Fertility Prescription
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