Home Product Chemicals Contaminating Water
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Household Detergents, Shampoos May Form Harmful Substance in WastewaterContact us to learn how to do your laundry without commercial products, dishwasher, hand washing too...
ScienceDaily (May 27, 2010) — Scientists are reporting evidence that certain ingredients in shampoo, detergents and other household cleaning agents may be a source of precursor materials for formation of a suspected cancer-causing contaminant in water supplies that receive water from sewage treatment plants. The study sheds new light on possible environmental sources of this poorly understood water contaminant, called NDMA, which is of ongoing concern to health officials.
Procter & Gamble to Reduce Toxic Contaminant in Herbal Essences Shampoo New Product Tests reveal 1,4-dioxane in Major Laundry Detergent Brands, Too
Tide (P&G) – 55 ppm
Ivory Snow Gentle (P&G) – 31 ppm
Tide Free (P&G) – 29 ppm
Purex (Dial Corp) – 25 ppm
Gain 2X Ultra (P&G) – 21 ppm
Cheer BrightClean Detergent (P&G) – 20 ppm
Era 2X Ultra (P&G) – 14 ppm
Arm & Hammer (Church & Dwight Co.) – 5.0 ppm
Wisk 2X Ultra (Sun Products Corp) – 3.9 ppm
Woolite complete detergent (Reckitt Benckiser) – 1.3 ppm
All Laundry Detergent (Unilever) – 0.6 ppm
Dreft powdered detergent (P&G) - ND
Sun Burst (Sun Products Corp.) – ND“Natural” Brands:
Planet Ultra Liquid Laundry detergent – 6.1 ppm
Mrs. Meyers Laundry detergent – 1.5 ppm
Clorox Green Works Natural Laundry detergent- ND
ECOS Laundry Detergent (Earth Friendly Products) – ND
Life Tree Laundry Liquid – ND
Method Squeaky Green Laundry Detergent - ND
Seventh Generation Free & Clear laundry detergent– ND(ppm = parts per million; ND=not detected)The independent third-party laboratory, Exova, known for rigorous testing and chain-of-custody protocols, performed all testing. The press conference was held in cooperation with The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics (CSC), a national coalition of health and environmental groups.ABOUT 1,4-DIOXANE - 1,4-dioxane is generated as a byproduct of ethoxylation, a process used by some companies to provide mildness to harsh cleaning ingredients, which requires use of the cancer-causing petrochemical ethylene oxide. 1,4-dioxane is considered a chemical “known to the State of California to cause cancer” under Proposition 65, and is also suspected as a kidney toxicant, neurotoxicant and respiratory toxicant, among others, according to the California EPA.
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