WEBVTT 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is the story about the world obsessed with stuffs 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's a story about systems and crisis 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We're trashing the planet, we're trashing each other 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and we're not even having fun 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The good thing is that when we start to understand the system 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 we start to see lots of places to step in and turn these problems into solutions 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Can I tell you: I love my Pantene proV 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 of the personal soap products that I use everyday 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the one I can't live without 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It said it gives my hair the ultimate cool shine 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 how does it do that? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I was wondering that when I was lattering my hair one day 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So I read the ingredients right here 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 What is this stuff? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I took this list to some scientists who know how to read it 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Turn out my Pantene could have the potential link to cancer 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and lots of my other products in my bathroom 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 from suncream to lipstick and even baby shampoo 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 also contain chemical ? cancer 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 or other problems like learning disability, asthma or even damaged sperms 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Like most parent, I try to keep my family safe 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but now I find out my bathroom is a minefield of toxin 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 What are we supposed to do? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 To find out the answer, we have to go back to the key feature 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 of our material economy 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Toxic in, toxic out 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If at the factory, you put the toxic chemical into a product like baby shampoo 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you're gonna wind up with toxic baby shampoo 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and toxic in workers, community, and, ta-ha, baby 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So let's take a closer look at this toxic outrage that seems ruin our lives everyday 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 In the bathroom, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the average woman in the US uses 12 personal care products daily 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the average man about 6 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Each product contain a dozen or more chemicals 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Less than 20% of chemicals in cosmetic has been assessed by the industry safety panel 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So we just don't know what they do to us when we use them 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Would you find an airline that only inspect 20% of its planes? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Of course not all of the chemicals are dangerous 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but we know that many are. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Some are Carcinogens. That means that they can cause cancers. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Others are neurotoxins and reproductive toxins 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 proven to mess up brain development and reproduction in animals. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Wait a minute! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We're animal too! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's like a giant experiment 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We're using all these mystery chemicals and just waiting to see what happens. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 One thing we do know is that they're getting inside us. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I had my body toxicity level tested 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and I'm loaded with things like Mercury, Flame Retardants, Triclosan and Lead 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We all are 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Even babies being pre-polluted 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Now I know we can't live in a lead-free world 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but we have to put it on a lipstick? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I don't know 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Maybe it's my fault 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 maybe I've just bought the wrong thing 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 At the store, the choices seem endless 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I can get lipsticks in 49 shades 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 or shampoos for hair.... dry 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but what about the choices that really matter? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 like the choice for my products that are safe 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It turns out the important decision just don't happen when I choose the products off the shelf. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They happen with companies and governments decide which products to go on the shelf. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So who are these companies? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is Procter and Gamble 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They are the one offering me herbal essenses 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the number 2 shampoo in the country 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It contains toxic petrol chemicals made from oil 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Since when is the oil an herb? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 On cosmetic label, words like "herbal", "natural" or even "organic" have no legal definitions. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That means that anybody can put anything on a bottle and call it "natural". 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And they do 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I mean can you imagine a top seller called Petro essenses? Gross! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 What's even nastier is the hair relaxer marketed for 5 year olds. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and skin whitening creams 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 These are super toxic 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 both in the ingredients and in the message they send about what beauty is 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Oh, here's Estee Lauder offering me a chance to find a cure for breast cancer 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That's nice! But wait, they're also using the chemicals link to cancers 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Don't you think the best way for Estee Lauder to fight cancers 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to stop using those chemicals in the first place? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So really, I get to choose between a meaningless claim on a bottle 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but these guys get the real choice about what go into those bottles 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And that happens back here 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 at the factory with the formulated 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Why does the maker of these products use all these toxic? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Are they try to poisoning us? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 No. They're just working from a 1950's mindset 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 when people were totally wrapped up in better living through chemistry. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 In the hostile excitement, they forgot to worry about human health's impact 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That was years ago and they're still using the same old toxic chemicals 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Today, big cosmetic companies say that those are poison in the products are small enough to be harmless 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Yeah maybe for using once a year 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I guess they never get out and see that their products are being used in combine with other products everyday 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 A little toxic doze into your arms, a little more in your hair, on your lips 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And workers in nail and hair salons get those all day long 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So the industry is used to doing thing this way 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And they can 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Because even now the scientists have linked the chemicals we're using to all sort of problems 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 there are no law to get rid of them 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You