Antibacterial Soaps and Related Products - A Danger To Our Health and Environment

By Kathi Jo Robinson
A little over a decade ago, the manufacturing industry released a new product to the market which many believed was an answer to their prayers for health and wellness. Mothers, nursery schools and elementary schools, doctor's and dentist's offices and on and on. The prevalence of this new item spread through everyone's life like

wildfire.

Now, approximately a decade later, both soaps and lotions, dish soaps, laundry products, toothpaste or hand sanitizers - anywhere a manufacturer found they could add this formula too has graced the store's shelves.

Widespread press and other media reporting continually built up the advantages to our health by adding these antibacterial products to our daily life. Cleaning products and health care products were reported to kill off the virus and bacteria common to many every day minor illnesses and other inconveniences to our health.

Ten Years Later And The Truth Is Finally Becoming Known

Antibacterials are chemicals - their job is to kill. As this residue washes your hands or is absorbed into your skin, washes down the drains, brushes your teeth, cleans your laundry or dirty dishes, these chemicals are still doing their job of killing. Residues in the local water supply or run-off from drainage makes it into the lakes, rivers and streams. All of these eventually lead to open water, the oceans. Much of this residue along the way then leaches into our land and environment where we grow our own food.

And what are all these chemicals doing all along this way, every day?

Contraindications Of Antibacterial Products

The three most important ingredients in almost all antibacterial products are the chemicals triclosan, triclocarban and alcohol (anywhere from 60 to 90 proof.) Continuous use of any of these ingredients leads to antibiotic resistance. This is because your body has already reached overdose levels thus you lose any effectiveness of an antibiotic drug offered by your doctor for a current medical condition.

Other common symptoms though include:

* your flesh will burn or it becomes very sensitive in certain parts of the body
* a hand sanitizer solution can kill a child in case of accidental ingestion
* the cleansing effect itself will only last 5 minutes and 20 seconds on your skin until it loses its therapeutic effect. To retain the benefits therefore you must continually re-wash your hands every five and a half minutes.

Science has proven beyond a doubt that our society's insistence on using antibacterials has compromised not only our own health but the health of our environment whether that is on land, in the sea or in the air.

Plain old soap and water, used consistently, is still the best solution for your own good health and vitality.

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