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Coming Clean About Soap

info@myarba.com (Arba Cooper) — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 02:09:25 GMT

Coming Clean About Soap

Soap Basics

Soap is made by combining a fat source (either animal or vegetable) and an alkali (acid) in a chemical process known as saponification. In spite of efforts to promote bathing as an immodest act by some factions of the early Christian church, the soap industry came into its own in the 12th and 13th centuries in Italy and France. By the 16th century, soap making became a prosperous industry in England and by the mid-17th century, the New England colonists benefited from exporting much-needed soap ash and animal fats to England. Soon, the territories now known as New Hampshire and Maine profited greatly from these exports and eventually became the heart of soap manufacturing in the United States.

Early soaps were made by boiling goat or sheep tallow (fat) with water and hardwood ash (alkali), although Italian and French soap makers explored the use of olive oil in place of animal fats to improve texture and quality. But, commercial Soaps, as we know them today, may contain a variety of other chemicals that are not neutralized in the manufacturing process and that are being applied to your skin every day.

What's in your soap?

In 1938, under the U.S. Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic (FD&C) Act, cosmetics were legally defined as any product used for the purpose of "cleansing, beautifying, promoting attractiveness, or altering appearance" without affecting bodily function. Products that come under this category include sprays, lotions, powders, deodorants, facial makeup and, you guessed it, soaps. Unlike products that are classified as both a cosmetic and a drug (such as fluoride toothpaste) cosmetics and their individual ingredients do not need FDA approval before appearing on the market. In fact, the FDA has no regulatory authority over these products and their ingredients until after they appear on the market, and only if it can be determined that they have caused direct harm to human health. Furthermore, the fact that many soaps and cleansers are formulated from a variety of combined chemicals complicates the issue further. Only about 16 percent of cosmetics have been tested for toxicity by the FDA-- although it does require companies to label cosmetics with a warning if they contain irritants or hazardous substances.

Curious now about what you're taking a bath with? Here's a brief rundown on some potentially harmful ingredients found in many commercial soaps:

Apinene - Derived from the resinous sap of pine trees, this substance is a major component of turpentine and can damage the immune system.
Aterpineol - This chemical is extremely irritating to your mucus membranes. Frequent or prolonged exposure (and especially repeated inhalation) can also cause edema, as well as respiratory difficulties.
Benzaldehyde - Also called oil of bitter almond, this substance is a narcotic and anesthetic that can depress the central nervous system. When inhaled, it can bring on vomiting, dizziness and a sudden drop in blood pressure.
Benzyl Acetate - An eye and lung irritant and known carcinogen (cancer-causer) that has been associated with pancreatic cancer.
Ethanol - Appears on the EPA Hazardous Waste List and is used in the manufacture of varnish and paint remover. This chemical can irritate the respiratory tract and can cause impaired vision and loss of muscle control.
Linalool - A narcotic that can impair respiratory function and motor activity. Linalool also attracts bees which can be a problem for those allergic to bee stings.
Sodium Laurel Sulfate (SLS) - Used to increase absorption of other chemicals; it is also a "wetting agent" that allows shampoo to spread out and penetrate more easily. SLS breaks down lipids (fats) and impairs the skin's ability to retain moisture. It is classified as a "mutagen," meaning it can alter cellular genetic material. In fact, SLS has been used in Japanese studies to promote bacterial mutations.
Triclosan - A bactericide (anti-bacterial) and mutagen that is readily absorbed through the skin. It's also an eye irritant and associated with causing liver damage.

A new generation of chemicals-resistant super germs?

It should also be said that the overuse of chemical antibacterials, such as triclosan, has created a widespread problem of a new generation of bacteria that have mutated to become resistant to these harsh chemicals. According to research from Tufts University, triclosan-containing antibacterial soaps used in the home can become breeding grounds for creating a strain of resistant bacteria.

The color of ... danger

And, what about the colors that are added to soaps? Many of them are permitted in cosmetics (and some drugs) for use on the skin but are suspected of being carcinogens, teratogens (indicating the substance can pass through the placenta to an unborn child) or toxins. A mere sampling of these include (all prefixed by D&C, which means that the dye may only be used in drugs and cosmetics, not in foods):

Blue Aluminum Lake 1 and 2
Red No. 19
Aluminum Lake
Zirconium Lake
Yellow No. 8

Get clean the natural way!

You can take out the mystery of reading labels and the fear of uncertainty when you buy from your natural foods store. Chances are they will have a variety of body bars and facial cleansers on the shelves that will be safe for the entire family to use. And, you can be sure that these soaps are environmentally safe and cruelty-free to boot.

What should you look for in natural soaps? Natural soaps contain vegetable-based oils, such as oils of olive, coconut, canola or soya, rather than animal products. They may also contain emollients such as glycerin and lanolin. Oddly, glycerin is a natural by-product of soap making, but many commercial manufacturers separate this substance from their product and sell it to other industries for a profit. Soaps that are "cold-pressed" retain their original glycerin content. Lanolin, on the other hand, is an animal product in the sense that it is derived from the wool of sheep, but without sacrificing the animal.

Natural soaps will also contain botanical essential oils, not perfumes or synthetic dyes and fragrances. The essential oils perform double duty: they offer superior cleansing and healing properties while providing the benefits of aromatherapy. You can replace your old triclosan-containing antibacterial soaps with those formulated with tea tree, rose, geranium or lavender. If you have very oily skin with a tendency toward acne, you might benefit from soaps made with carrot, citrus or mint oils. Dry skin benefits from the oils of lavender, rose geranium and calendula, while extremely dry skin can be helped with the oils of avocado, jojoba, wheat germ and sweet almond.

Why ALUMINUM Pans are DANGEROUS

info@myarba.com (Arba Cooper) — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 01:59:50 GMT

Why ALUMINUM Pans are DANGEROUS

Dr. Cooper himself had been suffering from aluminum poisoning which cleared up on the abandonment of this type of cooking utensils. He gives a series of cases of patients suffering from aluminum poisoning, there being immediate relief upon the discontinuance of the offending utensils. Dr. Cooper states that aluminum residues in food cause irritation, inflammation and serious harm to the nervous system which are sometimes expressed in neuralgias. Certain skin diseases were also cured when aluminum utensils were abandoned. He also shows that some of the aluminum taken in is cumulative in the human system.

Another worker against aluminum is Dr. Leo Spira who in 1933 published a monograph on the subject called The Clinical Aspect of Chronic Poisoning by Aluminum and its Alloys, which gives his experience with the subject over a period of ten years.

Dr. Spira not only cured himself by discontinuing the use of aluminum cooking utensils but also dozens of others. Symptoms of aluminum poisoning in various patients which were cleared up by not using aluminum utensils were constipation, flatulence, colicky pain, impairment of appetite, nausea, many forms of skin ailments, neuralgia, twitching of legs, giddiness, excessive perspiration, loss of energy, etc. Dr. Spira not only has his patients discontinue the use of aluminum utensils, but also has them stop using tap water, for many cities alum (which is a form of aluminum) is placed in city water supplies to purify it. Dr. Spira has found also that many brands of aluminum ware contain poisonous impurities such as copper, antimony, fluorine, zinc, lead, tin, etc.

Dr. F. Von Halla, in “Aluminum and Darm,” Deutsche Aertze Zeitung, pp. 195 and 201, describes twenty-five cases of patients with severe constipation who could not be cured be regular medical procedures but whose condition dramatically proved when they gave up cooking in aluminum.

Dr. O. Putensen, in the Deutsche Aertze Zeitung, 223, 231, 242, describes the case of a dog with rash sores and intense itching who was cured only when the aluminum pans from which he was fed were thrown out. Dr. Putensen describes experiences with many patients showing cures o gastric and skin disturbances caused by cooking food in aluminum.

Dr. Coram James writing in the British Medical Journal of April 9. 1932, in describing some cases of gastric disturbances which he was able to cure by substituting enamel or iron pots for aluminum, said, “It seems like riding coincidence too hard to suppose that a sequence of a score of more relieved could all have been hypersensitive to aluminum.” What the doctor means is that the aluminum people are allergic to aluminum.

Dr. Alexander Francis, writing in the April 16, 1932, issue of the British Medical Journal, describes how he cured his own case of severe abdominal pain by discontinuing the use of aluminum. The pain had been so bad that at times it completely incapacitated him. Several times later, the pain returned but in every case he found that he had eaten something cooked in aluminum. The abdominal pain caused by aluminum, says the doctor, is of such nature that is cannot be relieved by the usual sedatives. Dr. Francis, in this article, also reports six cases in which he cured abdominal pain by ordering the disuse of aluminum cooking utensils.

Dr. E. H. Rink, writing in the August 6, 1932, issue of the British Medical Journal describes how he treated two patients who were suffering respectively from abdominal pain which was thought to be appendicitis, and a case of colitis.

Dewberry describes a case which occurred in 1944 of 42 men in a military unit who were made ill from eating peas cooked in a copper boiler. There can be no question about it. Copper is not safe as a cooking medium. Besides it destroys considerable vitamin C of the food. Some of the heavier cast aluminum usually contains from five to seven per cent of a copper alloy.

There are many ways of destroying these precious elements, of which many people are not aware. For example: ANY UTENSIL which contains copper will INSTANTLY DESTROY ALL VITAMIN “ C” the moment it comes in contact with the vitamin. Light will destroy “B2” or Riboflavin. One should never cook in a utensil such as glass, which admits light. ALWAYS cook with a COVERED UTENSIL. Never BOIL your food. Boiling temperatures will destroy some vitamins and minerals too. NEVER drain the cooking water down the sink.

Antibiotics in Animal Feed Tied to Human Illness

info@myarba.com (Arba Cooper) — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 01:50:57 GMT

Antibiotics in Animal Feed Tied to Human Illness

The New York Times

WASHINGTON – Scientists from the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have come up with new evidence linking antibiotics in animals feed with illness in humans.

Antibiotics are fed to most livestock in the United States to feed off disease and promote growth. But in recent years, scientists have contended that strains of salmonella bacteria that are resistant to the drugs can flourish inside the animals as competing organisms are killed off. Then, this theory goes, the salmonella can cause severe intestinal ailments in people who eat contaminated meat, and treatment is difficult because the antibiotic ordinarily used in treatment are in effective.

According to a draft of the federal study, which is to be published in The New England Journal of Medicine on March 5, the findings demonstrated “conclusively” that salmonella was spread to humans in this way. “These studies show that feed animals are a major source of antimicrobial-resistant salmonella infections in humans,” the report said.

The study is expected to have significant impact in the debate over the use of antibiotics in animal feed because it will appear in one of the country’s leading medical journals and because it will put the weight of the government’s top epidemiologists behind the contention that the practice can be harmful to humans.

The report by a research team headed by Dr. John Spike has been awaited in Congress, where bills barring the routine feeding of antibiotics to animals are to be reintroduced, as well as at the Food and Drug Administration, which once tried to ban such use. It also is of interest to the food and chemical industries, for which the use of antibiotics has enormous economic significance.

The antibiotics permit animals to make more efficient use of their feed and protect livestock against the rapid spread of disease in the close quarters in which they are kept in modern animal raising.

An side to Sen. John Chafee (Republican R.I.) said the senator planned to introduce a bill in the next few days that would restrict sharply the feeding of antibiotic to animals Chafee introduced a similar measure last October, but it was not acted on by Congress.

In submitting his previous bill, called the Antibiotic Safety Act, Chafee cited an estimate by the Federal Office of Technology Assessment that feed-containing antibiotics was fed to 60 percent of all cattle, 90 percent of pigs, 90 percent of calves raised for veal and almost all poultry. Nearly half the antibiotics produced in the United States were used in livestock feed to promote growth rather than to treat disease. Chafee said, again citing the federal study.

Among the antibiotics most frequently used in animal feed are penicillin and tetracycline, which also are prescribed frequently in human illnesses. But these medicines are ineffective against diseases caused by resistant strains of bacteria that develop in animals fed with the drugs.

Chafee told the Senate in October that a report by the Natural Resources Defense Council, a non-governmental organization, predicted the routine animal use of the two antibiotics would account for more than 270,000 cases of salmonella causing 100 to 300 deaths.

The CDC study concluded that cooking, especially the light cooking of beef favored by many Americans does not kill all the salmonella organisms.

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Coming Clean About Soap

Coming Clean About Soap

Why ALUMINUM Pans are DANGEROUS

Why ALUMINUM Pans are DANGEROUS

Antibiotics in Animal Feed Tied to Human Illness

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50 Harmful Effects of Genetically Modified Food

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