This is the story about the world obsessed with stuffs
It's a story about systems and crisis
We're trashing the planet, we're trashing each other
and we're not even having fun
The good thing is that when we start to understand the system
we start to see lots of places to step in and turn these problems into solutions
Can I tell you: I love my Pantene proV
of the personal soap products that I use everyday
the one I can't live without
It said it gives my hair the ultimate cool shine
how does it do that?
I was wondering that when I was lattering my hair one day
So I read the ingredients right here
What is this stuff?
I took this list to some scientists who know how to read it
Turn out my Pantene could have the potential link to cancer
and lots of my other products in my bathroom
from suncream to lipstick and even baby shampoo
also contain chemical ? cancer
or other problems like learning disability, asthma or even damaged sperms
Like most parent, I try to keep my family safe
but now I find out my bathroom is a minefield of toxin
What are we supposed to do?
To find out the answer, we have to go back to the key feature
of our material economy
Toxic in, toxic out
If at the factory, you put the toxic chemical into a product like baby shampoo
you're gonna wind up with toxic baby shampoo
and toxic in workers, community, and, ta-ha, baby
So let's take a closer look at this toxic outrage that seems ruin our lives everyday
In the bathroom,
the average woman in the US uses 12 personal care products daily
the average man about 6
Each product contain a dozen or more chemicals
Less than 20% of chemicals in cosmetic has been assessed by the industry safety panel
So we just don't know what they do to us when we use them
Would you find an airline that only inspect 20% of its planes?
Of course not all of the chemicals are dangerous
but we know that many are.
Some are Carcinogens. That means that they can cause cancers.
Others are neurotoxins and reproductive toxins
proven to mess up brain development and reproduction in animals.
Wait a minute!
We're animal too!
It's like a giant experiment
We're using all these mystery chemicals and just waiting to see what happens.
One thing we do know is that they're getting inside us.
I had my body toxicity level tested
and I'm loaded with things like Mercury, Flame Retardants, Triclosan and Lead
We all are
Even babies being pre-polluted
Now I know we can't live in a lead-free world
but we have to put it on a lipstick?
I don't know
Maybe it's my fault
maybe I've just bought the wrong thing
At the store, the choices seem endless
I can get lipsticks in 49 shades
or shampoos for hair.... dry
but what about the choices that really matter?
like the choice for my products that are safe
It turns out the important decision just don't happen when I choose the products off the shelf.
They happen with companies and governments decide which products to go on the shelf.
So who are these companies?
This is Procter and Gamble
They are the one offering me herbal essenses
the number 2 shampoo in the country
It contains toxic petrol chemicals made from oil
Since when is the oil an herb?
On cosmetic label, words like "herbal", "natural" or even "organic" have no legal definitions.
That means that anybody can put anything on a bottle and call it "natural".
And they do
I mean can you imagine a top seller called Petro essenses? Gross!
What's even nastier is the hair relaxer marketed for 5 year olds.
and skin whitening creams
These are super toxic
both in the ingredients and in the message they send about what beauty is
Oh, here's Estee Lauder offering me a chance to find a cure for breast cancer
That's nice! But wait, they're also using the chemicals link to cancers
Don't you think the best way for Estee Lauder to fight cancers
to stop using those chemicals in the first place?
So really, I get to choose between a meaningless claim on a bottle
but these guys get the real choice about what go into those bottles
And that happens back here
at the factory with the formulated
Why does the maker of these products use all these toxic?
Are they try to poisoning us?
No. They're just working from a 1950's mindset
when people were totally wrapped up in better living through chemistry.
In the hostile excitement, they forgot to worry about human health's impact
That was years ago and they're still using the same old toxic chemicals
Today, big cosmetic companies say that those are poison in the products are small enough to be harmless
Yeah maybe for using once a year
I guess they never get out and see that their products are being used in combine with other products everyday
A little toxic doze into your arms, a little more in your hair, on your lips
And workers in nail and hair salons get those all day long
So the industry is used to doing thing this way
And they can
Because even now the scientists have linked the chemicals we're using to all sort of problems
there are no law to get rid of them
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