Dangerous Products by Ni Zain

Each time I am entering a supermarket - which is not often, but some basic supplies I really can only get there - I am surprised that each time I come back, their departments with baby products and cleaning products has been grown a bit more. From a little 1 meter rag, to a whole line full of kids cosmetic products. With asthma in kids and skin problems raising big times, I am concerned what kind of development we are heading off to.

With the recall of millions of baby and kids products in the US and Europe, it is clear, that something must be wrong with them. They were not recalled because of production mistakes, no, because the used substances had bad health effects. Looking at bottles of shampoos, which are so called "baby save", where it is rather like the who is who in chemistry. When I tell people what kind of dangerous products are in those kids products, I often her the reply: But it is written down "natural", it is written down save for children. It says Aloe Vera.

Right there might be Aloe Vera in there, but how much and how many other products are in there? "From natural" products can mean, that the basic of the chemical substance was made from something natural. Means a basic coconut, was turned into a product which is highly toxic and is polluted with heavy metals such as mercury and aluminum, which is a fact in every single soap bar you buy. Even if it is declared natural.

Baby and Children Products are declared save, but with all the ingredient in them, I doubt they are. There has been not one product I picked up over the last 5 years which I considered save and chemical free or natural. Very often the truth is not opened up totally. New products come up and you might not see aluminum in the list of ingredients. You see, those companies are quite clever, they just don't put the full name or use another name you might not know now, as they doing it now on deodorants, where the word aluminum does not show up anymore, but even those natural ones are actually aluminum.

I used to use a very nice shampoo, which when I checked it, had nothing in there I would declare highly chemical. I used it for over 2 years. One day I got a new one and the packing was suddenly bigger. I did not put any attention to it, but when my scalp started to unusually itch - and I was sure I did not have the head lice - and the same thing happened to the rest of the household, I checked the shampoo and saw to my shock that now all ingredient listed had chemical names and were totally different from the previous one. The latest trend to add to shampoos is to add Dioxin, a highly toxic substance, which is linked to several cancers and other health problems. I have seen kids with terrible scalps and just using one of my recommenced products "healed" the scalp in a few days, by removing the toxic and chemical input.

So moving away from all those toxic and dangerous products might be hard for some people. So lets make it easy:

Powders - made from Talcum Powder, pollutes the lung forever - use corn or better rice or tapioca flour, works the same way, you can refill your original bottle, works great.

Shampoo - switch to a brand, where ALL the ingredient are such as coconut oil, aloe vera, ect. No chemical names, hard to find, but in Bali you can use NEEM Shampoo. The best I found so far.

Soap - best to use liquid soap or use a brand which uses Vegetable Glycerin

Body Lotion - Remember, we absorb all though our skin. Would you eat your body lotion? - Use pure oils such as olive oil or best coconut oils. They make a wonderful skin.

Sunscreens - My biggest enemies - Useless as without words - they are full of toxins, they actually MAKE skin cancer and on top, they block out the sun from producing Vitamin D in your body, which is the most important hormone we have to produce in our body. - If you handle sun with brain, eat well - means no wheat, sugar, bad oils and dairy - you will never have problems with the sun. Not even with blond hair and light skin. Or how can it be that I have many blonde friends, who got wonderful brown skin? No surprise, they eat health and know how to expose themselves to the sun. After the "Sun-is-bad-politics" introduced in Australia, the rate of cancer in kids has gone up a tremendous amount. Additional just briefly I was reading, that the Sunscreen ingredient "Oxybenzon" has been found in 97% of Americans in big levels. - Oxybenzon also has been found in breast milk and there were recommendations for pregnant women not to use sunscreens. Did you ever hear about this? No? I am not surprised. What means this? Studies showed that mothers who had Oxybenzon in their blood, had low in birth weight female babies.

Tooth Paste - a classic too - Full of fluoride, which actually does NOT prevent bad tooth, but causes many health problems and actually can discolor teeth for live. I briefly meet a woman raised in England, her teeth had the classic signs of Fluoride damages. She told me her drink water was fluoridated. Fluoride damages your Thyroid and can cause life long health problems. Normally kids tooth paste all contains Fluoride. In Indonesia you can look for natural brands from India or Malaysia, which are declared "Halal" (suitable for Moslems), they do not contain Fluoride.

Perfumes and Cosmetic Products - Sorry ladies and teen girls. I have to let you know, that they are ALL polluted with mercury, oxides (make the black color and is highly toxic), and many other products, which are now proven to have a direct influence on breast cancer. So if you 12 years and start to use cosmetics, we can count you down with 30 - 40 years on breast cancer. Something I would not recommend to any off you. Even most essential oils are packed with a product called Benzol Alcohol. It is highly absorbed by the skin and to breath in and causes many health issues, such as Adrenalin Fatigue, Cancer, Asthma in small children. This counts even on expensive products from important brands.

So, as I am saying in all my articles: Stay natural, use less and make sure all ingredients are natural. I mix my own body oil from over 10 natural products and it is wonderful for the skin. I removed most of my sunspots, have hardly any aging spots anymore and I was able to totally get away many other damages I had on my skin since I was young. My acne which I had since I was 13 years is almost gone without using all those magic products, because I changed many things in my life. Just briefly a female client of mine said something to me: Most people don't understand that it is not the creams and cosmetic which makes you look young and beautiful, it matters what you do to your inside, what you eating and how you life. I fully age. And it is dramatic that millions of children are poisoned from their parents at young age already. What really puzzles me is that most parents don't even make a connection between the skin problems and rushes their kids have and those products. All I can say: Wake up parents!

Ni Zain - The Bule Balian

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