So many of my friends have read an article that I have posted on this website from the the Center for Environmental oncology, part of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute on
black woman and breast cancer. The majority of the readers would like to know which products to be concerned about. So I went back to the net searching. However this is what I have found, the Center for Environmental Oncology will work with Silent Spring Institute, a Massachusetts based cancer institute, to identify suspect contaminants and ingredients in hair care products and other personal products regularly used by African-American young women and their mothers.
More recently, attention has turned to estrogenic compounds in hair care products used by Black women as a possible explanation for higher cancer rates in this population. I've started to carry copies of the list in my purse and I am going to share it with you right here. The list simply says: The following is a list of products that have previously been found to contain hormones:
1. Placenta Shampoo
2. Queen Helene Placenta cream hair conditioner
3. Placenta revitalizing shampoo
4. Perm Repair with placenta
5. Proline Perm Repair with placenta
6. Hormone hair food Jojoba oil
7. Triple action super grow
8. Supreme Vita-Gro
9. Luster's Sur Glo Hormone
10. B & B Super Gro
11. Lekair natural Super Glo
12. Lekair Hormone hair treatment with Vitamin E
13. Isoplus Hormone hair treatment with Quinine
14. Fermodyl with Placenta hair conditioner
15. Supreme Vita-Gro with allantoin and estrogen plus TEA-****
16. Hask Placenta Hair conditioner
17. Nu Skin body smoother
18. Nu Skin Enhancer.
The majority of these products contain placental extract, placenta, hormones or estrogen. As early as 1983, Dr. Devra Davis (epidemiologist and director of the Center for Environmental oncology, part of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute) and co-researcher Leon Bradlow advanced the theory that xenoestrogens, synthetic estrogen imitators, were a possible cause of breast cancer.
Davis also says, "most cases of breast cancer are not born, but made and the more hormones a woman is exposed to in her lifetime, the greater her risk of breast cancer."
We need to be more cautious of the products that we use on our hair and our bodies and demand that more information about our health is shared.
07-28-05, 01:27 PM
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