Re: Washing your Hair with WHAT?????

["Susan Evans Garlinghouse" <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

Well, actually sodium laurel (or laureth) sulfate is just detergent and the
amount put into shampoo is pretty minimal.  The stuff they use to degrease
garage floors is much more concentrated, so the relationship between the two
isn't quite that clear cut.  Also, suds aren't produced by the SLS, it's
mostly produced by an additional foaming agent---if all those suds were
produced by the SLS, then your washing machine would be overflowing with
bubbles every time you ran a load.

Also, SLS has (unfortunately) been exhaustively tested to death on lab
animals just because it *is* used in so many products and there simply isn't
a link between cancer and SLS (and I know that because my family owned a
pharmaceutical company that manufactures shampoos and we had to maintain
tons of toxicology type things on all our products).

This isn't endurance-related, so I'll let this go, but hope this eases some
worries.  I'd be alot more worried about being in the same room with a
cigarette smoker than I would about the detergent in my shampoo.

Susan Garlinghouse
-----Original Message-----
From: connie B Berto <cberto@juno.com>
To: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Monday, May 17, 1999 1:05 AM
Subject: RC: Washing your Hair with WHAT?????


>Hello to All,  My sister sent me this from New York.   It's too serious
>not to share.   Check your shampoo bottles .      Connie B (CA)
>---------
>> Check the ingredients listed on your shampoo bottle, and see if they
>have a substance by the name of Sodium Laureth Sulfate, or simply
>SLS. This substance is found in most shampoos, and the manufacturers
>use it because it produces a lot of foam and it is cheap. BUT the
>fact is that SLS is used to scrub garage floors, and it is very strong.
>
>> It is also proven that it can cause cancer in the long run, and this
>is no joke. I went home and checked my shampoo (Vidal Sasoon); it
>doesn't contain it; however, others such as Vo5, Palmolive, Paul
>Mitchell, the new Hemp Shampoo .. contain this substance. The first
>ingredient listed (which means it is the single most prevalent
>ingredient) in Clairol's Herbal Essences is Sodium Laureth Sulfate.
>
>> So I called one company, and I told them their product contains a
>substance that will cause people to have cancer.  They said, "Yeah,
>we knew about it but there is nothing we can do about it because we
>need that substance to produce foam." By the way Colgate toothpaste
>also contains the same substance to produce the "bubbles."  They said
>they are going to send me some information. Research has shown
>> that in the 1980s, the chance of getting cancer was 1 out of 8000 and
>now, in the 1990s, the chances of getting cancer is 1 out of 3, which
>is very serious.
>
>> So I hope that you will take this seriously and pass this on to all
>the people you know, and hopefully, we can stop "giving" ourselves
>the cancer virus.  This is serious, after you have read this, pass
>it on to as many people as possible, this is not a chain letter, but
>it concerns our health.
>
>> Michelle Hailey
>> Executive Secretary
>> University of Pennsylvania Health System
>> Office of Legal Affairs
>> (215) 662-2546
>
>
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