Hormones in Our Products

jadestar

New Member
This subject may have already been posted, but this is an email I received today:

The following is a list of products that have previously been found to contain
hormones:

Placenta Shampoo, Queen Helene Placenta cream hair conditioner, Placenta
revitalizing shampoo, Perm Repair with placenta, Proline Perm Repair with
placenta, Hormone hair food Jajoba oil, Triple action super grow, Supreme
Vita-Gro, Luster's Sur Glo Hormone, B & B Super Gro, Lekair natural Super Glo,
Lekair Hormone hair treatment with Vitamin E, Isoplus Hormone hair treatment wit
Quinine, Fermodyl with Placenta hair conditioner, Supreme Vita-Gro with
allantoin and estrogen plus TEA-COCO, Hask Placenta Hair conditioner, Nu Skin
body smoother and 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. Ladies and
gentlemen beware.


Pass this on to all the women in your address book.
 

MeccaMedinah

Active Member
jadestar said:
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. Ladies and
gentlemen beware.

Good info. :up:
 

Divastate

Member
Good article. These hormones definitely cause issues- this is an article about a study conducted by my childhood doctor (you can read the full article here):


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Unbeknown to many parents, a few hair products - especially some marketed to black people - contain small amounts of hormones that could cause premature sexual development in girls.

The evidence that hair products containing oestrogens cause premature puberty is largely circumstantial, and the case is still unproven. But Ella Toombs, acting director for the Office of Cosmetics and Colors at the US Food and Drug Administration, told New Scientist: "No amount [of oestrogen] is considered safe and can be included in an over-the-counter product."

Under FDA regulations, over-the-counter products containing hormones are drugs, and thus require specific approval. However, there appears to be a grey area regarding products marketed before 1994. The FDA failed to respond to a request to clarify the position. At least five companies are still making hormone-containing hair products, a source within the industry - who preferred not to be named - told New Scientist.

Throughout the West, girls are tending to reach puberty earlier. This has been blamed on everything from improved diet to environmental contaminants. But African-American girls are developing even earlier than their white counterparts. About half of black girls in the US begin developing breasts or pubic hair by age eight, compared with just 15 per cent of white girls, one study has found. In Africa, girls enter puberty much later, regardless of their socioeconomic status.
"Placenta, hormones or estrogen"

That big discrepancy may be explained, at least in part, by the more frequent use of hormone-containing hair products among African Americans, says Chandra Tiwary, former chief of paediatric endocrinology at Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas. "I believe that the frequency of sexual precocity can be reduced simply if children do not use those hair products," he says.

The products are sold as shampoos or treatments to deep-condition dry, brittle hair. The labels usually state that they contain placenta, hormones or "estrogen", although not all products that make such claims contain active hormones. While New Scientist's inquiries suggest such products are no longer sold in Europe, many are still available worldwide over the Internet.

And they remain popular among African Americans. A small study published earlier this year by Su-Ting Li of the Child Health Institute in Seattle suggests that nearly half of African-American parents use such products, and that most also use them on their children.

For other ethnic groups the figure is under 10 per cent. Tiwary told New Scientist that he has carried out a bigger, as yet unpublished, survey of 2000 households that confirms these findings.

In 1998 Tiwary, now retired, published a study of four girls - including a 14-month-old - who developed breasts or pubic hair months after beginning to use such products. The symptoms started to disappear when they stopped using them. The year before, he published a study showing that some of the products used by his patients contained up to four milligrams of oestradiol per 100 grams. Others contained up to two grams of oestriol per 100 grams.
Readily absorbed

B&B Super Gro, for example, which was marketed before 1994 and is still on sale in the US and claims to be "rich in hormones", was found to contain 1.6 grams of oestriol per 100 grams. While the levels of oestriol in the products were much higher, oestradiol is a far more potent form of oestrogen.
 
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