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By reading this article you will learn about the toxins found in most deodorants. I learned these facts 5 years ago, which sparked a dramatic change in the products my family uses for cleaning and personal care. You can understand more about the our lifestyle change to safe, healthier products here.  My goal is to help you read labels and know what ingredients to avoid so that you and your family can reduce the toxic overload created by many common products.

My husband, Paul, upon first using Subdue Deodorant (pictured above) experienced a terrible red, itchy, patchy, smelly rash. But the rash wasn’t coming from the new deodorant! It was his body shedding the toxins as they came out of his pores from all the years of using over the counter deodorants. He applied Eliminator mouthwash and tea tree oil in distilled water (to be covered in a future blog post) to his skin for about a week or two until the rash and toxins subsided.

Did you know that toxicity is one of the two causes of all disease? Yet almost every American is now in toxic overload!

This toxic overload accumulates from many different and often seemingly innocent sources — things that, until Paul experienced a reaction, we didn’t think about twice, like deodorant.

Well, we think about them a lot now!  And I think about them every day because I’ve made it my mission to provide safe, non-toxic yet effective alternatives to people like you.

Disease doesn’t just happen. Health is the product of many small choices that we make every day. Some choices serve cellular health, while others lead to cellular malfunction and down a pathway to disease and even death.

Most deodorants are the source of an amazing array of toxins, many of them quite deadly over time as our bodies absorb them through the skin. But it’s possible to choose a deodorant that’s both safe and effective instead!

Here’s an excerpt from an article that I read recently, which share a bit more information:

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Toxins in Your Deodorant

Aluminum, triclosan, propylene glycol and more…

We are exposed to aluminum in cookware, foil, antacids and other OTC drugs, processed food, vaccinations and, as I mentioned last week, in public tap water. We are getting far more than our bodies can handle, and it is contributing to our current epidemic of degenerative brain disorders — Alzheimer’s, Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS), Parkinson’s Disease, etc. Autopsies performed on Alzheimer’s patients found four times the amount of aluminum considered normal in their brain cells, and, as I mentioned last week, when aluminum is combined with fluoride it causes brain cell death.

Deodorants contribute to our aluminum burden. Aluminum compounds are used to check  bacterial growth and prevent perspiration. (Preventing perspiration is not a good idea, and it has nothing to do with eliminating odor, which comes from the bacteria.)

Using aluminum deodorants is like jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Most of these contain triclosan, a hormone-disrupting toxin linked with liver damage, eye and skin irritations, impaired thyroid function and the deaths of fish and other wildlife when it pollutes our waterways. Triclosan accumulates in the liver, lungs and kidneys to toxic levels and has been found in 3 of every 5 samples of breast milk from nursing mothers, posing a threat to fetal and childhood development.

Deodorants also contain a variety of other toxic chemicals including propylene glycol, a neurotoxin which may cause kidney and liver damage. It is a suspected carcinogen and can cause contact dermatitis, enlarged sweat glands, cysts and lung and throat irritations. Parabens are preservatives derived from the highly toxic toluene. They act like estrogens and have been linked with breast cancer. BHT and formaldehyde, other preservatives, are suspected carcinogens. Phthalates are endocrine disrupters that lower testosterone and thyroid activity. (Hypothyroidism is another epidemic today, especially among women.)

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These are only some of the toxins commonly found in deodorants and I hope this information causes you to read labels more closely and avoid purchasing deodorants with these toxic ingredients.

And now that you know the facts and are aware of the toxins in deodorant, you can make a conscious choice to look for a safe, aluminum-free, tricolsan free, propylene glycol free deodorant.

I’d encourage you to view this fact sheet about Neways Subdue Deodorant– it’s FREE of all the toxins mentioned above.

Paul and I continue to use Neways Subdue Deodorant and are very thankful to have found a safe non-toxic, non carcinogenic, no aluminum, fragrance-free deodorant that is just as effective as any of the products you find on the shelves.

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