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This newsletter is about finding organic hand soap.
October 23, 2011
Hi ,
Several months ago my front office made me aware  that we were running out of hand soap in the bathroom. Normally such a revelation only rates a small note on the "pick up at Costco" list in the back room. Fortunately (or unfortunately considering the amount of work this has caused) I had been reading an article just the night before on the high levels of toxic chemicals found in soaps and other body products that penetrate into the body through the skin.
On checking the toxic chemical database at Environmental Working Group for hand soaps I found that the SoftSoap hand soap we had been using rated a 5 out of 10 in toxicity (with 10 meaning sure death on contact or something similar). To make matters worse Costco was no longer stocking SoftSoap (Water, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Decyl Glucoside, Sodium Chloride, Fragrance, DMDM Hydantoin, PEG 120 Methyl Glucose Dioleate, Tetrasodium EDTA, Sodium Sulfate, Polyquaternium 7, Citric Acid, Poloxamer 124, PEG 7 Glyceryl Cocoate, D&C Red 33, FD&C Blue 1),
 but had switched to antibacterial Dial hand soap (Active Ingredients:Triclosan. Inactive Ingredients: Water, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Ammonium Lauryl Sulfate, Decyl Glucoside, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Glycerin, Sodium Chloride, PEG-18 Glyceryl Oleate/Cocoate, Fragrance, Cocamide MEA, DMDM Hydantoin, Tetrasodium EDTA, Citric Acid, Yellow 5 (CI 19140), Red 4 (CI 14700).)
I new for certain I didn't want an antibacterial soap as they destroy the protective layer of good bacteria on our skin and actually make us more vulnerable to skin infections. But the added bonus of Neurotoxicity, Endocrine disruption, Organ system toxicity, a little cancer causing, plus irritation of the skin, eyes, and lungs
really made the commercial hand soap unappealing.
So what was I to do? Being a DIY (Do It Yourself) kind of guy I said "how hard can it be to make my own hand soap?" I did a little research (quite a bit actually) and found the easiest way to make hand soap is to simply melt down a bar of normal soap in a lot of water with a tiny bit of glycerin added. Since I wanted something really gentle and natural I bought some bars of Ivory soap and went to work. First you have to grate the soap down into shreds - quick work  in my handy Salad Shooter. Then it has to be gently melted into several quarts of purified water with a couple teaspoons of glycerin added. This melting and mixing phase can take a long tome before it reaches the right consistency. Once it does, pour it  into your bottle and bam - hand soap... almost. After it fully cooled I had a product that looked and felt suspiciously like cow snot. It made a nice lather, but it took forever to get the slimy stuff washed off your hands.
Next came the deeper research to find out what went wrong, and how do the pros do it? Well the pros do it with all kinds of unpronounceable and toxic chemicals  that aren't actually soap at all. Most all hand soaps on the market are actually detergents and not soaps. Why do we care? Because soaps are nice and relatively gentle to the skin (when made properly) while detergents are harsh and damaging to the skin.
This is separate from the whole absorbing killer mutant causing chemicals through the skin issue. The problem is that properly made soap that is gentle has to cure for at least a month and have any caustic potassium hydroxide scraped off the top during the curing process. This is not something modern soap/detergent producing companies have time to do.
This is also why those cute little bars of handcrafted soaps you find at craft fairs and farmers markets are so ridiculously expensive. Real soap making is a royal pain in the you-know-what (although I discovered that most craft fair soap makers actually use a pre-made mix that already has had all the work done, and they just add fragrance and color.) There are not many large commercial real soap makers left in the country, and even fewer that use food grade quality organic ingredients - no chemicals. I finally found a couple companies that had products that  were easily obtainable on Amazon.com. I bought a few products to test in the office and at home and I find I am very pleased with the foaming hand soap from the Vermont Soap Company. I am also using their baby shampoo and some aloe castile soap. I now recommend good organic soap products over the common toxic commercial detergents they call soaps. Go here for a link to this soap.
It seems like a small thing - getting rid of simple  household toxic chemicals like antibacterial soaps, but the cumulative effect of skin absorption of these toxic chemicals every day, several times a day for years places a huge burden on our struggling immune system. The first step to getting healthy is getting rid of the poisons that we are being exposed to. You can't heal a poisoned system - it just does not work right. Other very common household toxins include air fresheners, cosmetics, fluoride, antiperspirants, household cleansers, and especially anything we inhale, swallow, or gets on our skin.
If you would like to know how toxic your cosmetics and similar products are, visit EWG's Skin Deep Cosmetics Database.
Take care,
David
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A couple of nights ago I was up way too late on the computer and came across this rather deep article. It begins with a news story about a bank robber who makes no attempt to disguise himself because he believes that because he rubbed lemon juice on his face that he would be invisible to the bank cameras. In a nutshell, we only know what we know, and have a vague sense of lots of stuff we know that we don't know. What completely eludes us is the vast amount of stuff that we don't know that we don't know. We don't even know how to form the questions that would enable us to discover that we don't know these things. Most of us ignore these realities because really what else can we do? But it is all these unknown unknowns that control the destiny of our lives, because we are forced to make our life choices from the small selection of the things we know.
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Dr. DeLapp has been a philosopher, non-force Chiropractor, medical intuitive, and health innovator for over 30 years. He began experimenting with medical intuition in 1972 while studying physics at UC Davis. In addition to physics he designed and completed an individual major in the philosophy and psychology of education. Shortly after he choose to pursue a career in the only truly health oriented profession available at that time, Chiropractic. He graduated with honors in 1981 with his doctorate and opened a private practice.
Since that time he has continued his research into the effects of consciousness and learning on health.
He developed the Biomagnetic Retraining system for correcting movement abnormalities.
Since 1991 he has focused on developing a powerful system for uncovering and assisting the mind-body connection in health and personal growth. The in-depth coaching, guided by the subconscious direction from the body, is called Heartflow and the simpler mind-body retraining for health and unfoldment he has named Gracework. Both are available at Fair Oaks Health.
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