The Safe Shoppers Bible by Steinman and Epstein

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Consumer's Guide to Nontoxic Products

This valuable and comprehensive reference book is available from mainstream booksellers, but I provide a link above to the Cancer Prevention Coalition with the hopes that your purchase will help support their organization. Why are Cancer, Autism, Attention Deficit Disorder and Alzheimer's on the rise? What are the hidden ingredients in our water and food supply, products and atmosphere that has caused such an epidemic of infirmities and terminal illness in millions of children, adults and pets? This Safe Shopper Guide can at least help steer us through a minefield of dangerous products that we need to avoid at all costs.

I have found product labeling to be very confusing. I don't know what is true or false advertising, and even the use of keywords like natural and organic are unregulated, for the most part. One of my big questions over the years, as I've permed, colored, bleached and tinted my hair is how dangerous are hair care products, and will certain ingredients cause cancer? Hair Care is addressed in this guide, from pages 221 through 250. In the first column, products are identified as having little or no risk, minimal risk, caution or recommended, as well as numbers that correlate to a table of hazardous ingredients. There are two other columns, which indicated immediacy of the hazard and delayed hazard to our health.

I think this is a must-have guide for every household. As consumers we have a right to know the ingredients and potential harm in every product and food we consider purchasing. Appendix A is a resource for mail-order safe products and food.

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